Hundreds of Free Art E-Books

[Brashen]

But for books that are not still in copyright which are on the Digital library of India they can be downloaded using the DLI downloader (which they don't mind you using, and was written because the DLI site is ridiculous) that downloads all the TIFF files and then compiles them into one pdf file. You can find the barcodes for each book here, and you enter them into the downloader and that's it

There are several dead links here of books from the DLI that you can download this way

Here's a screenshot of downloading 'Blanchard Jerrold, 1891. Life Of Gustave Dore':





I checked, one of the Rockwell books (My adventures as an illustrator) is in the 'Copyright freed' section, can't find the other one. You can't download copyrighted material from the DLI, so if it's downloadable it's seemingly fine (most probably)

Thankee kindly sir for pointing me to this.

[briggsy@ashtons]

Just reposting this here in case anyone missed it in REFERENCES and INSPIRATION

The Metropolitan Museum of Art now has 368 art catalogs and books online for free download as pdfs.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...e?searchtype=F

Here are a dozen to give an idea of how good many of them are. There are also some great catalogs of world and ancient art. Apart from the free pdfs there are also some great catalogues for sale as physical books.

American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915
Weinberg, H. Barbara, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry (1994), 399 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...Life_1885_1915

American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School
Avery, Kevin J., Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, John K. Howat, Doreen Bolger Burke, and Catherine Hoover Voorsanger
(1987), 367 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...n_River_School

Daumier Drawings
Ives, Colta, Margret Stuffmann, and Martin Sonnabend, (1992), 282 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...umier_Drawings

Degas: The Artist's Mind
Reff, Theodore (1976), 354 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...e_Artists_Mind

Georges Seurat, 1859–1891
Herbert, Robert L., Françoise Cachin, Anne Distel, Susan Alyson Stein, and Gary Tinterow, (1991), 462 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...9%E2%80%931891

Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420–1500
Christiansen, Keith, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke (1988), 401 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...iena_1420_1500

Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings
Logan, Anne-Marie, and Michiel C. Plomp (2005), 346 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...s_The_Drawings

Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch
Tinterow, Gary, ed., and Philip Conisbee, (1999), 610 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...ge_of_an_Epoch

Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection
Ives, Colta, with Elizabeth E. Barker (2000), 264 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...he_Karen_B_Coh

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Husband, Timothy Bates, with an essay by Margaret Lawson (2008), 390 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...ce_Duc_de_Berr

Velázquez
Domínguez Ortiz, Antonio, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, and Julíán Gállego (1989), 298 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...ions/Velazquez

Vermeer and the Delft School
Liedtke, Walter A., Michiel C. Plomp, and Axel Rüger, (2001), 642 pp.
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/me...e_Delft_School

[OnceUponASketch]

WoW. WOW. WOW!!!!!!!! Amazing resources thanks so much to all the posters!!!

[zusfinger]

Very happy to find this...thank you!

[Taha-023]

Thanks a lot for this post man. Currently im viewing the books on native americans and such this is amazing!

[DefiledVisions]

Amazing. Didn't know metropolitan museum had such treasure available for free downloading! and they also have thousands of high-res paintings. Damn, thanks a ton

[Januz]

Kickass, thanks briggsy!

[Goremageddon]

WOW!!!!

[HunterKiller_]

This should probably get stickied somewhere.

[Star Eater]

This should probably get stickied somewhere.

Good idea. I will move it to Art Discussion and stick it there.