Religion

[Print: REF DE 5 .O9 2012] Authoritative scholarly classics dictionary whose articles cover people, places and events in all facets of the classical world in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The digital version is dynamic, with new and continuously updated articles. Includes additional content such as Maps of the Ancient World, images, and links to related websites. Includes a key to Abbreviations used in the OCD, now standard in the field of Classics.

Encyclopedia of the entire ancient Mediterranean world covering Neolithic through the eighth century CE (i.e., 701-800). Geographic range includes: Greece and Rome, Ancient Near East, Bronze and Iron Age Greece, Jewish history, and Pharaonic Egypt. MAPS: in the "More from this reference work" sidebar, click the link "Maps of the Ancient World."

(Oriental Institute, University of Chicago). Collection of printable maps from the ancient Near East - Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Levant, Sudan, Syria, Turkey.

(University of Texas at Austin). Collection of digitized maps (and some atlases) from all regions and eras. Includes links to other digitized map collections.

Provides text descriptions and bibliographic references for works of art produced worldwide from early apostolic times up to the 16th century, with a particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world but an expanding collection of Jewish and Islamic art objects.
Note: The database is both text and image although some works of art may not have an accompanying image. Approximately thirty percent of the images, due to copyright laws, are restricted for public use and cannot be accessed by the public subscriber.

A resource of links to images of Islamic art and architecture organized by geographic regions

Find archival, historical, and special collections in religion and theology from libraries, religious institutions, and archives worldwide. Browse by Collection or by Institution.

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.

This internationally recognized image database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains @100,000 images, is global in coverage, and includes all areas of visual imagery.

Search 400,000+ objects held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Search 2 million+ collection objects held by the British Museum.

Search millions of records of museum objects, archives and library materials including online images, audio & videos and blog posts.

Provides free access to 900,000+ images (some in public domain) digitized from the The NYPL's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs, streaming video, and more. Search by keyword or Browse Collections.

The Harvard Library's dedicated image catalog. It includes content from archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University.

Explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. Holdings date back to @the 12th century. Co-funded by the European Union.

"Manuscripts" page from the Medieval-18th Century literature subject guide, which includes links to online digital collections of medieval manuscripts.

Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries, covering the time period 8000 BCE-2000 CE.

An all-digital library that aggregates information and thumbnails for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums in the United States.

An online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums worldwide.
Search by keyword, artist, medium, country/place, art movements, historical events, historical figures.

Works in the public domain, distributed on a free-access, free-use basis. Emphasis on ancient, medieval, and the Renaissance in Europe. Created by Allan Kohl from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, the site is hosted by the University of Michigan's Digital Library.

Virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts (e.g., painting, sculpture, etc.) from the 8th to mid-19th centuries.

Rich collection of primary materials. Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.

Brings together the Bodleian Libraries' (Oxford University) discrete digital collections under a single user interface. Includes, but is not restricted to: manuscripts, incunabula, maps, periodicals, printed and manuscript music collections.

Search for images and other Internet content from other established web sites (such as Google Images or YouTube) that the content producers stated could be used commercially and/or with modification. For example, when you use Creative Commons to search Google Images, it will return only those images that are labeled for commercial reuse with modification. (read more about Creative Commons).