Welcome to the Index of Medieval Art

Welcome to the Index of Medieval Art online database. Our online holdings complement and partly overlap with the print Index at Princeton University, which is currently being integrated into the database. The collections include images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Islamic culture. Full access to this database is available to users by subscription and to those on the Princeton campus; for further information about this, go to subscriber information.

Featured Works of Art

Male figure, followed by several people, blesses male figure laying on a bed while being lowered down from a house by two figures.

Christ Healing the Paralytic Man at Capernaum, Gospel Book, Ath...

System Number:47507

Stained glass panel containing a seated, bearded man placing his right arm on his waist and raising up his left hand; beside his head are the letters, N, O, and E.

Noah, stained glass panel, southwest transept, Canterbury, Cant...

System Number:160974

Casket, ivory, formerly Hallesche Heiltum, drawing.

System Number:hds20230324001

A golden metal vessel in the shape of a dragon with a raised tail and open mouth, facing left.

Aquamanile, Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. 1471-1870

System Number:91394

Manuscript detail of two youths flanking basket and using scraper tools on the underside of a boat held up on stilts.

Preparation of Pitch and Wax from Old Ships, Dioscorides, De M...

System Number:174631

Manuscript page with text and a half-page framed illustration of a fox walking among plants.

Fox, Morgan Manafi'-i hayavan, New York, Morgan Library M.500

System Number:127337

On a badly damaged piece of gold glass, a plant bearing flowers or fruit.

Plant, gold glass, lost or destroyed, Museo Cristiano, Musei Va...

System Number:hds20221216001

Square textile fragment depicting the nude goddess Venus borne aloft by two winged putto over a white shell, and two tritons below holding up the shell and bowls in their other hand. Blue border of birds, plants, fish and nude figures on boats, and border of waves pattern in blue and red threads. Worn at the upper left and lower right corners.

Birth of Venus, textile fragment, Paris, Musée du Louvre, AF 54...

System Number:157689

Fresco painting of veiled, haloed woman holding child in her right arm.

Virgin Mary and Christ Child, fresco, apse, Basilica di Sant’An...

System Number:180253

Quick Start Instructions

You can search the Index in multiple ways, beginning at this landing page.

Browse will take you to a list of search categories, such as Subject, Location, and Medium, many of which lead to authority records with linked works of art. Here you can also access the Subject Classification Network, a hierarchical tool for browsing subjects by category.
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The Index of Medieval Art

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