Many old master paintings of lutes can be found by putting the name of a painter in a general search engine plus the word lute.

The distinction between online and real picture galleries is to some extent blurred as some 'real' galleries make their artworks available via consortia and collective online virtual museums.

ONLINE-ONLY MUSIC PICTURE GALLERIES SEARCHABLE FOR LUTES

• A Lute Society searchable database - The Lute Iconography Database (LuteIDB):
  see www.lutesociety.org/pages/lute-iconography-database for summary
  and live version at lute-images.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issues
• Wayne Cripps' site, www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/icon/icon.html
• Cuerdas Pulsadas site: www.cuerdaspulsadas.es/timeline/
• Historic paintings illustrating technique on Jean-Marie Poirier's site: le.luth.free.fr/
• Thomas Schall's site, www.lautenist.de/LutePictures.htm
• Igor Varfolomeev’s lute and guitar site, www.lute.ru/home_eng.htm
• Lute art links in the Lute Society of America site: www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/links/ArtLinks.html
• Iconography portal in Paul Kieffer´s Early Music Sources.com www.earlymusicsources.com/more/lute-music-sources

ONLINE-ONLY GENERAL PICTURE GALLERIES SEARCHABLE FOR LUTES

• The web gallery of Art (93 hits for ‘lute') www.wga.hu/
• ArtCyclopedia (searchable for ‘lute’ in title) www.artcyclopedia.com/
• The Utrecht Emblem Project: emblems.let.uu.nl/
• Glasgow University Emblem project: www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
• Europeana is a virtual repository of artworks, literature, cultural objects, relics, and musical recordings/writings from over 2000 European institutions www.europeana.eu/portal/
• Khan Academy's smARThistory is a multimedia resource with videos, audio guides, mobile applications and commentary from art historians www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/beginners-art-history/a/cave-painting-contemporary-art-and-everything-in-between

LISTS OF LUTES IN ART

• List compiled by Max Sauerlandt: www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/Sauerlandt/Sauerlandt.html
• Mary Rasmussen’s Musical Iconography, alphabetical by instrument: www.unh.edu/Archives/music/igref.htm