Subject Guides: Iconography: Iconographic Indexes

Iconographic Indexes

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Iconclass = International classification system for art and iconographical sources.
TIB = The Illustrated Bartsch

Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch (TIB) Vols. 1-. HumRef NE 90 .B213
Works catalogued in Bartsch are indexed in the Index Iconologicus (microfiche set described in the box below) and also in the Iconclass Indexes listed below. Iconclass is the classification system used.
NOTE: Images in Bartsch are also available in digital format, through ARTstor. Browse by collection (The Illustrated Bartsch) and then search your topic or artist.
Iconclass Indexes: Dutch Prints. 1994-. HumRef NE 667.I27x 1994
Iconclass Indexes: Early German Prints. HumRef NE 651.L386 1995
Iconclass Indexes: Italian Prints. HumRef NE 659 .I28x
Hollstein. German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts. HumRef NE 651.H6
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. HumRef NE 663 .H65
Index of Medieval Art
The largest database of medieval art in existence with records for over 13,000 works of art, covers from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400. Indexes images and textual information, as well as bibliographies about the images. Formerly Index of Christian Art
Marburger Index: Photographic Documentation of Art in Germany. 1976-1996.
Photographs owned by the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and the Rheinisches Bildarchiv in Cologne, taken between 1850 and 1996. Material covered dates from the Middle Ages to the present, including western and non-western art, architecture, sculpture, etc. In German.
Also available in 13,000 microfiches and CD-ROM Index at the Family History Library (level 2).