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

Detail of a manuscript page with an image of a man wearing a loincloth, standing in a tub of grapes and holding a cluster of grapes and a staff.

Labors of the Months, September, calendar fragment, New York, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M. 908, ...

System Number:123332

On a small metal weight photographed against a dark background, the busts of two figures above an inscribed Greek letter or numeral.

Half figures of two emperors, weight, Benaki Museum, Athens, ΓΕ 11428.

System Number:200067

A veil embroidered with a a large center panel with a man standing at an altar and offering bread and wine to groups of other men. A border of smaller scenes surrounds the large center panel.

Christ, Communion, Suzdal' Aër, State Historical Museum, Moscow, inv. no. ГИМ 19724 щ РБ-2.

System Number:hds20220222001

A metal panel that contains a representation of a haloed, seated man holding a large key and pointing toward a haloed man kneeling below a winged angel.

Mark the Evangelist consecrated by Peter, metal repoussé book cover, Venice, San Marco Basilica.

System Number:99111

An ivory plaque that contains a carving of a seated man with a halo, holding a book within an almond-shaped frame that is held by four angels.

Maiestas Domini, ivory plaque, Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, MA158.

System Number:caf20250519002

Detail of a framed manuscript miniature with a seated man wearing a hat, playing a wind instrument, and a seated woman wearing a hat and veil, playing a narrow drum held over her shoulder, against a patterned red ground..

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

System Number:pap20250730031

A detailed view of a horizontal tapestry fragment depicting rows of figures, horses and deer, surrounding a stylized tree. Geometric ornamental upper and lower border.

Figures, Horses, Deer, and Tree, Överhogdal Tapestries, Jamtli, Östersund (Sweden), detail.

System Number:jls20250717001

A manuscript page depicting the scene of four veiled woman standing with attributes and beneath Latin inscriptions of their names. Frame with foliate cornerpieces.

Personifications of Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, and Astrology, Boethius, De Institutione Arithmet...

System Number:210038

Standing female figure with bust of child in mandorla on her breast. Greek inscription surrounding the figures.

Virgin Mary and Christ Child, red silk aër embroidered with gold and silver thread, National Histo...

System Number:mar20250707001

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