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• The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, and Culture in Africa, Oceana, and Native North America (Main Reference E98.A7 W49 2000)
  • Entries on iconographic subjects and symbols such as animals, deity archetypes, natural phenomena, and patterns
• Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (Art Reference N7560.H34 1979b)
  • Provides background on subjects and their depictions in Western Art
• Flammarion Iconographic Guides
  • Provides brief histories of subjects and their sources
  • Descriptive examples of representations in art, often with an illustration
  • Gods and Heroes of Classical Antiquity (Art Reference N7760.A34 1996)
  • The Bible and the Saints (Art Reference N7825.D8413 1994)
  • Buddhism (Art Reference N8193.L68 1995)
• "Guide to Imagery"
  • Gods and Heroes in Art (Art Reference N7760.I4713 2003)
  • Old Testament Figures in Art (Art Reference N8020.D4 2003)
  • Gospel Figures in Art (Art Reference N8030.Z8413 2003)
  • Saints in Art (Art Reference ND1430.G5513 2003)
• ICONCLASS: An Iconographic Classification System (Art Reference N7560.W22 1973)
  • Devised as a classification system for image collections
  • Dutch Prints (Art Reference NE667.I27 1994)
  • Early German Prints (Art Reference NE651.L386 1995)
  • Early Netherlandish Painting (Art Reference ND635.O44 2002)
  • Italian Prints (Art Reference N7560.W22 1973 suppl.)
• Iconographic Index to New Testament Subjects (Art Reference ND1430.R6 1992)
• Iconographic Index to Old Testament Subjects (Art Reference ND1430.R63 1987)
  • Extensive list of examples of biblical subjects depicted in paintings
  • Primarily Italian and other European objects, without explanation of subject matter or references to locations of reproductions
• Ikonographie der christlichen Kunst (Art Reference N7830.S35)
  • Recommended for more advanced, comprehensive research
• Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art (Art Reference N7740.H17 1994)
  • Geographic scope includes ancient Egypt and Near East (Mesopotamia), India, and the Far East
• The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s (Art Reference NX650.M9 R45 1993)
  • Summary of subjects
  • References to classical literary sources
  • Chronological examples of the subjects in all the arts

• Ovid's Metamorphoses
  
  • Several editions in print (Main Library PA6522.M2)
  • Perseus Digital Library
  • Internet Classics Archive (MIT)
    • English-language version
• Bible
  • Several editions in print in Arts and the Main Library
  • The Bible in English (990-1970)
    • 20 different versions
  • King James Version
    • Contains Old and New Testament
    • Full-text searchability of an edition pubilshed in print (New York: American Bible Society, 1999)
  • King James Version and Revised Standard Version
    • Side by side comparision of two versions from the University of Virginia
• Legenda Aurea
  • Also known as the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine (Main Library BX4654.J3)
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook
    • English translation printed by Willaim Caxton in 1483
    • Free web resource
• Iconologia
  • Cesare Ripa's manual, editions available (Arts N7740.R5)
  • Iconologia, or Moral Emblems
    • Free web resource, digitized version of English translation