Depending on the needs of your research, you may need to find primary source materials related to the historical artwork or aspect of Medieval art you are researching. These primary sources might take the form of a similar artwork to one you have chosen, or it could include an artwork in a different format, or even an early book or other document.
MU Library guide to help find primary sources:
European culture & history
Images
- The Web Gallery of Art
- Virtual museum and searchable database of more than 11,6000 digital reproduction of European painting and sculpture. Contains a mixture of interlinked visual and textual information.
- ARTStor
- Index of Medieval Art
- These Princeton University 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 Muslim cultures.
- Online Stained Glass Photographic Archive
- Medieval and Renaissance stained glass listed by place, subject and gazetteer and the Bible in stained glass
- Yale Digital Commons
- Over 250,000 images of items in Yale's museum collections, available, with no license required for use
