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

On a carved ivory diptych, three women, one emerging from a dragon, one nursing a child, one holding a wheel, and a man is removed from a cross by two other men between a woman and another man.

The Virgin Mary and Christ Child and the Deposition of Christ, ivory diptych, Fitzwilliam Museum, ...

System Number:hds20240326001

A manuscript page with two columns of text and musical notation. In the middle of the left column, above an ornate letter P, is a framed miniature with a seated man playing a series of bells, against a blue ground.

Musician, manuscript miniature, Cantigas de Santa María, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Esco...

System Number:pap20250730041

A medallion of stained glass that contains a shield with blue, white, and red ornamentation.

Heraldry of Coucy, stained glass medallion, New York, The Cloisters, 41.170.77.

System Number:212469

A bronze lamp in the form of a camel holding a bell in its mouth, with a chain for hanging.

Camel, bronze lamp, Paris, Musée du Louvre, E 11865.

System Number:153942

A detail of a manuscript initial Q enclosing a woman wearing a red veil and flanked by two serpents. Lines of Latin text in red and black ink.

Personification and Serpents, Augustine, De Civitate Dei, Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS. W.43...

System Number:204904

On a flat, metal weight, two figures standing with their arms crossed.

Two Figures, metal weight, Benaki Museum, Athens, inv. no. GE 22002.

System Number:200147

A detail of a painted page from a manuscript that shows a man in water flanked by a bearded man and two angels. All the figures are below a dove emerging from a series of concentric circles. To the right is the same man standing next to a winged devil.

Baptism and First Temptation of Christ, Gospels of Otto III, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, ...

System Number:caf20211215001

Child figure surrounded by male and female figures, seven female figures holding candles. Architectural background. Slavic letters at the top center.

Embroidered podea with the presentation of the Virgin Mary to the temple, Gregoriou Monastery, Mou...

System Number:mar20260409002

Fish, emerald intaglio in a gold ring, London, British Museum, 1856,0425.3, front.

System Number:jls20260428002

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