Link: https://theindex.princeton.edu/
Project Status: Ongoing
The Index of Medieval Art houses, contextualizes, and presents images and information relating to the iconographic traditions of the medieval world. Founded in 1917 and maintained by a specialized staff of art historians, it serves iconographic researchers through both its physical archive on the Princeton University campus and an expanding online database. Its ongoing program of conferences and publications provides opportunities for continuing scholarly and public discourse about the visual culture of the Middle Ages. Once a subscription service, the online database has been freely available to the public since 2023. Online holdings comprise 177, 306 (to date) online records of works of art from early apostolic times to ca. 1600. While western European and Byzantine Christian art remain most heavily represented, secular, Jewish, and Islamic art is also being added.
Medieval content details:
Dates: 0 - 1600
First century CE to ca. 1600.
Subject: Art, Iconography
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Art and Artifacts, Material Evidence
Geopolitical Region: Egypt, Europe, Middle East, North Africa/Maghreb
Original Language: Anglo-Norman, Armenian, Celtic, Coptic, Dutch, English, Ethiopian, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Slavic, Spanish