Visual Arts

Iconclass is a specialized library classification designed for art and iconography. Initially designed for historical imagery, it is now also used to create subject access to texts and to classify a wide range of images, including modern photography.

Les collections de la Bibliothèque nationale de France abritent plusieurs dizaines de milliers de manuscrits dont le décor constitue l’un des plus riches musées de peinture au monde. Par leur grande variété et leur intérêt iconographique, ces images composent aussi une véritable encyclopédie visuelle de leur temps.

This database contains information about the illuminated medieval manuscripts of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum.

Presents the Met’s collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. Follow: "Thematic Essays" > "Medieval Art", for relevant essays on various Medieval artistic topics.

A simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts that are available on the web.

Online research resource of the Piedmont Morgan Library. Thousands of digital images from the libary's renowned collection of manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras. Spans ten centuries of Western illumination.

Explore nearly 400,000 works of art from the Museum's encyclopedic collection.

Includes full-text (1997-) and citations/abstracts of international, peer-selected publications—with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.

Contains abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art, including scholarly journals, conferences, book, exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogues. The records consist of bibliographic citations, abstracts, and indexing; abstracts may be in English or in French, index terms (descriptors) are in both English and French.

The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library and includes citations to material published in English as well as European languages. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion

The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400

Comprises over 300,000 articles derived from regular coverage of some 4500 periodicals and 5000 miscellany volume (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues). All articles are classified with full bibliographical details and subject classifications and indexing familiar to medievalists.

(400-1700) Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources. Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceed