Art & Art History 

II. Iconography

1. Judeo-Christian Resources

The Index of Christian Art, http://ica.princeton.edu/
The Index (previously known as the Princeton Index) records works of art in 17 different media types, without geographical limitations, produced from "apostolic" times to 1400 A.D. The original archive is organized into two tiles, one a collection of more than 200,000 photographs with textual data; the second, a subject file providing a thematic index to the photographs. It indexes over 26,000 subjects in Christian Art and includes bibliography for each work of art. "Among the holdings is the largest reference collection of Crucifixion scenes, saints, and personifications in existence." (ica.princeton.edu/~ica/range.html). Some of the textual material has been put online, however, there are few images available at present. The online version has 150 searchable categories of information.
Format: print and online (web-based). There are four copies of the monumental print and photographic archive: at Princeton; Dumbarton Oaks; Utrecht; and the Vatican. The photographs will continue to be added manually to the print version and online. The scholar must request permission and travel to one of these locations to use the print Index.

Holy Bible, Revised Standard, Jerusalem Bible, King James Version, Vulgate, New English Bible
FA REF BS191.A1 1953, FA REF BS192.A1 1970

James, M. R. The Apocryphal New Testament (1924)
FA REF BS2832.J3 1924

Charles, R. H. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (1913-1971)
FA REF BS1692 1913

Reau. Louis. Iconographie de l'art chretien (1955), p.v I-III
FA REF N7830.R4 1955

Schiller, Gertrud. Ikonographie der christlichen Kunst (1981), bd. 1-7
FA-REF N7830.S35

Lexikon der Christlichen Ikonographie (1968), bd.1-8.
FA-REFN7825.L4

2. Resources for Post- Biblical Saints

Post biblical saints are very nationalistic, often the patron saint of a culture, group, or family. Thus, this list is very selective and predominantly Western.

De Voragine, Jacobus. The Golden Legend (1969)
FA REF BX4654.J334 1969

Berthod, Bernard et al. Dictionnaire iconographique des Saints (1999) FA REF N 8079.5 .B47 1999

Farmer, David. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (1978)
FA REF BX 4659 .G7F23

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991)
FA REF DF521 .O97 1991

Kaftal, George. Saints in Italian Art (1952-), v. 1-4 by region
FA REF N8080 .K25

Rochelle, Mercedes. Post-Biblical Saints Art Index (1994)
FA REF N8079.5 .R63 1994

Wolf, Norbert. The World of the Saints (2005)
FA REF N8079.5 .W65513

3. Greco Roman Resources

LIMC Lexikon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (1981) v.1-8, pt. 2 and 2 vol. index FA REF N7760.L49 1981

THESCRA Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (1981) v.1-3
FA REF N7760.T44 2004

See the Perseus Digital Library, www.perseus.tufts.edu for these texts and translations:

Homer. Iliad.
Homer. Odyssey.
Virgil. Aeneid.

Ovid. Metamorphoses.

3. Non-Western Resources

Chandra, Lokesh. Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography (1999), v. 1-14
FA REF N8193.A4 L644 1999

4. Subject Resources

ICONCLASS (www.iconclass.nl/)
FAL homepage - Databases - Additional Databases

Laupichler, Fritz. ICONCLASS Indexes: Early German Prints (1995), v.1-4 FA REF NE90.I363

Strate, Roelof. ICONCLASS Indexes: Dutch Prints (1955), v.7-8
FA REF NE90 .I362

Strate, Roelof. ICONCLASS Indexes: Italian Prints (1995), v.1-4
FA REF NE90 .I365

Tervarent, Guy de. Attributs et symboles dans l'art profane, 1450-1600 (1958) FA REF N7740 .T4 1958

Van Marle, Raimond. Iconographie de l'art profane au Moyen Age et la Renaissance (1971), 2 vols. FA REF 7565 .M37 1971

Dictionnaire critique d'iconographie occidentale (2003)
FA REF N7565 .D53 2003

Pigler, A. Barockthemen (1974), v. 1-3
FA REF N7565 .P53 1974

Symbols and Allegories in Art (Getty Guide to Imagery, 2005)
FA REF N7740 .B2913

Nature and Its Symbols (Getty Guide to Imagery, 2004)
FA REF N7680 .I4713 2004

Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography (1998), 2 vols.
FA-REF N7565 .E53 1998

Assignment III

Choose from this list of iconographical references and write a one-page synopsis of the story from which it comes. Cite your source using the resources given for Iconography.

Story of Deborah in Baroque art

Tobit and the fish

St. Joseph at the Marriage of the Virgin

Apotheosis

St. Catherine's Wheel

Amitabha (Amida) in Sukhavati

Esther's Feast

St. Euphemia

One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Parrot in German prints

Christology: Annunciation

The Hunt

Okeanos and Tetys

Salome and the head of John the Baptist

Christology: Entry Into Jerusalem

Achilles and the Body of Hector

St. Hilda

Birth of Venus

Death of the Virgin

One Labour of Hercules