MEDIEVAL ART
MEDIEVAL ART| General Information | Artists | Painting | Illumination | Stained Glass |
| Sculpture | Tapestries | Cartography | Images |
ICMA : International Center of Medieval Art.
Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page : Reliable sources. If it's not here, it probably doesn't exist.
Medieval Art and Architecture : Links to a selection of several dozen photos of a nice variety of medieval art forms, including sculpture, jewelry, illuminations, stained glass, and more, presented online by Michelle Roberts.
Web Gallery of Art : This virtual museum and searchable database of artwork from 1200-1700 includes biographies for many artists and offers an electronic postcard service.
ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Art of the Middle Ages
Periods in Art History : Brief but interesting sections on different periods of art throughout history.
Period in Art History: The Gothic
The International Center of Medieval Art
NetSERF: Art : Good site.
Aon Celtic Art : Very good site on Celtic art.
Tour Medieval Art Museums and Galleries : Too cool. Well worth a trip.
Women Artists in the Middle Ages Enlightening article by Stephanie Smith exploring the existence of medieval female artists.
Limbourg Brothers: 15th Century Flemish illuminators.
Medieval Art : a page with links to various artists.
Painting:
(murals, frescoes, etc.)
WebMuseum: Gothic Painting (1280-1515) : An informative page from the Web Museum, Paris.
Danish Medieval Church Murals : A searchable image database which contains about 3000 photos of Danish church murals from the Danish medieval period.
Frescoes in the Cappella di San Martino of San Francesco in Assisi
About manuscripts : Excellent site!
Bruce Ferrini's Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts : Click on "learn about manuscripts" button.
Medieval Illumination Glossary
Medieval and Renaissance Book Production: Manuscript Books : Excellent information.
An Apprentice's Handbook for Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts : Fabulous site created by Bobbie Jo Hedrick, Class of '98 or Sweet Briar College. ** A MUST SEE SITE
Vellum Gallery of Calligraphy, Illumination, and Letter Arts : Great site.
Gothic Painting in Illuminated Manuscripts
Calligraphy - Art of Beautiful Handwriting and Calligraphy Centre
Society of Scribes and Illuminators
DScriptorium Home Page : This place is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digtal images of Medieval manuscripts.
Quills and Vellum Gallery
Techniques of Illumination : Excellent page with lots of information on illumination.
Illumination in the Late Middle Ages
Book of Kells : Text only. or The Book of Kells : with three stunning examples.
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry : Beautiful, vivid scans of all 201 plates are shown here, with explanatory text and several versions of each plate in different sizes, at the Christus Rex Online Museum
Art Source International : Commerical site, but it has good information too.
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Digitised : Has examples.
Visualisation of Manuscripts : Full-color examples.
Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Achitecture and Sculpture : A file of images.
Gargoyles Then and Now : Take the tour of French and English cathedrals and view their gargoyles.
Coptic Tapestries and The Unicorn Tapestries
Cartographic Images Home Page : A look at Old World maps.
Early Medieval Maps (400-1300) and Late Medieval Maps (1300-1500)
Illuminated Manuscript Images from the Bodleian Library
Book of Kells and Book of Kells
Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Images of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Manuscripts
The Age of King Charles V : (1338-138O) 1000's of images.
Stained Glass Windows : Interesting and little known facts about stained glass, plus gorgeous pictures.
A History of Stained Glass , The History of Stained Glass , or History of Stained Glass
Stained Glass History : Good site.
Medieval stained glass windows from Esslingen, Germany : Over 400 stained glass panes dating to the 13th and 14th centuries.
Stained
Glass Page: The Life of Christ : The 10 images in this collection
show the beauty of religious stained glass.
Illumination:
