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The print LIMC is a multi-volume encyclopedia that catalogues representations of mythology in the plastic arts of classical antiquity. Published serially from 1981 to 2009, it is the most extensive resource of its kind, providing full and detailed information as well as black-and-white illustrations indexed to their respective entries. The work was prepared by international scholars who contributed in their language of choice, resulting in entries written variously in English, German, French, or Italian.
The LIMC database gives access to the digital resources (ca. 50,000 ancient objects and photographs) provided by three components of the Foundation for the LIMC. In this database you can do a topographical "tree" search, a keyword search, or an index search. Click the Menu icon at top right for more databases and information and search options. This is a great place to go for images, but go back to the books for more extensive information and context.
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The BAPD is the world's largest database of ancient Greek painted pottery (Greek vases). It contains records of more than 130,000 ancient pots and 250,000 images. Nearly all of the pots included were made during the 6th to 4th centuries BC, and about three quarters of them were made in Athens. The database has its origins in the physical Beazley Archive, which is kept in the Classical Art Research Centre in Oxford. The great majority of its images were collected by the great pottery expert, Sir John Beazley (1885-1970). The Archive grew further after his death, and the BAPD contains even more images acquired later from a variety of sources, including major museums, auction houses, digitized volumes of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum series, and Beazley’s own drawings.
Scroll down and choose Advanced Search or Traditional Search. Searching is not easy - be prepared to noodle around and be baffled for a while as you learn how it works.
Iconclass Illustrated Edition This link opens in a new window
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Iconclass, a hierarchical classification system designed for art and iconography, is used by museums and art institutions around the world to describe and retrieve subjects represented in images (works of art, book illustrations, reproductions, photographs, etc.) For access to images, create a free account.
The Iconclass system has a history reaching back into the 1940’s when Henri van de Waal began to develop ideas for a universal classification for the subject matter of works of art. The classification itself went through several phases, after its first edition as part of the Decimal Index of Art of the Low Countries or D.I.A.L., in 1968.
In its completed form it was published as a printed publication in 17 volumes between 1973 and 1985 (in the library, see call number NE90 B3).
In its digital format it was included in the HIDA-MIDAS database management system of the Marburger Index in the 1980's.
This third version of the Iconclass browser is different from its predecessors in that it offers a large corpus of classified images to be used for comparison and inspiration.
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