Art & Art History 

Iconography

1. Judeo-Christian

The Index of Christian Art, http://ica.princeton.edu/ (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1991-)

The Index (often 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." (www.princeton.edu/~ica/range.shtml). 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 The cost is entirely prohibitive and now the print texts, once kept on little cards, are no longer being updated except online. 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. This information comes from the Index to Christian Art home page, Range and Scope of the Archive.

Oxford Reference Online

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 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1924)
FA-REF BS2832.J3 1924

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

De Voragine, Jacobus. The Golden Legend (New York: Arno Press, 1969).
FA-REF BX4654.J334 1969

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

Schiller, Gertrud. Ikonographie der christlichen Kunst (Gerd Mohn: Gutersloher Verlagshaus, 1981), bd. 1-7
FA-REF N7830.S35

2. Greek Mythology

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

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

Homer. Iliad.
Homer. Odyssey.
Virgil. Aeneid.
Ovid. Metamorphoses.

3. Subjects

Chandra, Lokesh. Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography (New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture, 1999), v. 1-2.
FA-REF N8193.A4 L644 1999

ICONCLASS (www.iconclass.nl/)

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

Strate, Roelof. ICONCLASS Indexes: Dutch Prints (Leiden: Foleor Publishers, 1995), v.7-8.
FA-REF NE90 .I362

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

Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn publishers, 1998), 2 vols.
FA-REF N7565 .E53 1998

Assignment II

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.

• St. Thecla

• Marriage of the Virgin

• Eros and Psyche

• Amitabha (Amida) in Sukhavati

• Esther's Feast

• One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

• Parrot in German prints

• Annunciation

• Triumph of Bacchus

• Judith and Holofernes

• Semele

• St. Lawrence

• One Labor of Hercules