Teaching Image Collection

The Princeton Art and Archaeology Teaching Image Collection, which consists of almost 250,000 digital images, can be accessed for teaching and research by members of the Princeton University community through Artstor on JSTOR (login with a PUID required). Once logged in, click on Browse > Your Institution's Collections to see the works that have been catalogued by members of the Visual Resources team for decades.

The Teaching Image Collection includes:

  • images that cover the wide range of art, archaeology, and architecture courses taught by members of the Department of Art and Archaeology;
  • the William L. MacDonald Collection, which includes photographs taken by MacDonald of examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Baroque architecture in about 30 countries. The city of Rome is particularly well represented, and his documentation of sites that now are largely inaccessible in Roman Libya and Syria provides a unique view of monuments that are now permanently changed by modern interventions; 
  • the John Pinto Collection, which includes photographs taken by Pinto in the 1970s and 80s that highlight urbanism and landscape in the city of Rome, especially in the 18th century; the reception of classical antiquity and the image of Rome, particularly in the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi; and Baroque and Neoclassical architecture in Rome and Italy;
  • … and more!

Within JSTOR, Princeton University users also have access to over 1,000,000 images from other contributing institutions.