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 Muslim cultures. In cataloging and describing this material, we remain committed to pursuing the respectful and accurate representation of medieval visual traditions in all of their diversity. Should you have questions or feedback concerning Index records, please feel free to contact our staff using this form.

Featured Works of Art

A detail of a painted manuscript page that contains the initial E bearing a representation of a crowned man riding a horse. The initial is flanked above and below by Latin words.

Judas Maccabaeus, illuminated initial within Bible, Udine, Biblioteca guarneriana. Ms. 3, fol. 156...

System Number:179903

An enamel plaque that depicts a bearded man holding an open scroll containing Latin words, who is framed by vegetal ornamentation. A Latin inscription is located below the man.

Jonah, enamel plaque from reliquary, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Inv. Nr. 4097-1857.

System Number:175398

A long, narrow horizontal textile with repeated figures of men riding horses and wild animals flanking standing figures in a house. To the right are three kings wearing crowns.

Kings, horses, and other figures, Skog Tapestry, Stockholm, National Museum.

System Number:208466

In an engraving of a fragment of gold glass set in plaster, the bust of a man wearing a garment fastened with a pin on his right shoulder.

Male figure, gold glass, Catacombs of Saint Agnes, Rome, engraving.

System Number:hds20221118001

A detailed side view of an ivory plaque depicting a bearded man, wearing a halo and a knotted loin cloth, affixed to a cross, flanked by a veiled woman and man, in a decorative frame with silver plate border.

Christ, Crucifixion, ivory and silver book cover, Evangeli Domenicali, Modena, Archivio Storico Di...

System Number:jls20250509001

Gloves with medallions with two figures with haloes.

Gloves of St. Sabino, silk and pearls, Museo dei Vescovi, Canosa.

System Number:mar20250611001

Embroidered on a textile, several figures surround a corpse.

Bewailing of Christ, embroidered epitaphios, Dionysiou Monastery, Mount Athos.

System Number:hds20250710001

A manuscript illumination depicting a horizontal celestial sky scene with a gold personification of a rayed sun and a blue lion climbing a ladder against a blue background. Line of Latin text visible below the illumination.

Personification of Sun and Zodiac Sign of Leo, Calendar page of July, Book of Hours, New York, Mor...

System Number:137574

Detail of a manuscript page with a figure of a man in a blue robe cutting wheat with a sickle, within a house-shaped yellow field.

Labors of the Months, July, psalter, New York, Morgan Library, MS M. 97, fol. 4r, det.

System Number:95743

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