LibGuides: Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Art & Archeology

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The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe (DALME)
DALME leverages advances in data science and machine learning to extract vast amounts of material culture data from medieval household inventories in a manner that makes comparison possible between objects described in widely varying ways in documents, as well as with museum objects and excavated artefacts. The data the project produces is made accessible online as open, well-structured, and machine-actionable datasets readily amenable to computational analysis.
Gothic Ivories Project--Courtauld Institute of Art
The database features ivory sculptures made in Western Europe ca. 1200-ca. 1530 as well as neo-Gothic pieces along with extensive bibliography.

This list includes journals dedicated to the study of the Middle Ages as well as those that include medieval topics (denoted with an *)

BHA The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its website. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007. For material published after 2007 see the International Bibliography of Art (IBA). The Getty Web site offers both basic and advanced search modules for BHA and RILA, and they can be searched easily by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other elements.

International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new window
The definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using the same thesaurus and authority files.

Index of Medieval Art This link opens in a new window
Based on The index of Christian art, a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects begun at Princeton University in 1917, the index catalogs primarily Christian art from early apostolic times to approximately 1400 A.D. While coverage is predominantly of Christian iconography, Jewish, Islamic, and non-ecclesiastical subjects are also covered. The database contains a portion of the index's backfiles as well as all works cataloged since 1991. Entries include descriptive information, provenance, location and ownership information, bibliographical references, and, when available, a photographic reproduction of the work of art.