Researching Art in the Middle Ages (HC)

Misericords are ledges attached beneath hinged choir stall seats. They provide support for those standing during services. Misericords are often carved with figures or scenes, ranging from the sacred to the profane. This database has over 17,000 images.

Features high quality photographs of jewelry, metalwork, textiles and other luxury artworks.

Database of more than 15,000 lead objects that reflect popular themes in religion and secular life.

Database of over 5,000 carved ivories from more than 400 collections. Sponsored by the Courtauld Institute of Art. This is a major resource for researchers.

Byzantine Ivories
Art of Ivory and Gold in Northern Europe around 1000 A.D.
Ivory Carving in the Gothic Era, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries
Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800

Offers photographs and extensive commentary by Liz James, a professor of Byzantine art.

Provides information about the structures in which Byzantine mosaics remain as well as primary sources and scholarship about them. Does not include images.

Includes indexing of images by subject

Representations of death in art including the medieval Dance of Death and the Three Living and the Three dead.

Offers rich collections of image resources, scholarship and research tools.

See details of sculptures from churches in the 12th and 13th centruies.

Thousands of images of French sculpture and architecture

Online exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum. See also the exhibition catalog in the Tricollege libraries.

Searchable database that includes images with many of the records.

This link is for the picture archive.

Note in particular the project for France. It is very rich in photographs from Chartres and Bourges.

Checklists are available online without images. Published volumes in the Corpus Vitrearum United States of America series (in print) have selected images.

Selected websites for medieval stained glass from various countries.

Painton Cowen presents over 50, 000 photographs primarily from France and England.

Portions of the tapestry with captions in Latin and English translations (Wikipedia)
Film with movement added (YouTube)