Best practices for finding images of works of sacred spaces:
Use sources that provide reliable information about works of art, such as the databases listed below.
Use sources that provide good-quality images, such as the databases listed below.
Carefully select websites that can provide reliable information and quality images
Use Google Images with caution. The information about works of art (e.g. titles, dates, creator names, etc.) is not always accurate. The image quality is often not good.
Print books in the library are often the best place to find an image of an art object. You can scan the image at a high resolution and be confident the identifying information is accurate.
Photograph of Muslim Headquarters, 2338 Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. 1964. Taken by Albert Wagner, published in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. (Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center).
Note: ArtStor is now part of JSTOR. ArtStor users can still use their existing account on the JSTOR platform.
ARTstor contains images of art, architecture and archeology from a range of cultures and time periods, in European, American and Asian cultures.
