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The World Wide Web offers an increasing number of sites that present
images of biblical narratives in the visual arts. This annotated and linked
list is presented as a starting point. If you know of other sites that
should be included, please send the URLs and brief annotations to the
contact address for this site.
Neither the Bible and Visual Art Consultation nor the Society of Biblical
Literature is responsible for the content or the maintenance of the web
sites listed here. However, if you note any problems with these links
or web sites or feel additional information should be included in the
annotations, please contact us.
The Text This Week:Art Concordance
http://www.textweek.com/art/art.htm
An extensive, well organized, hyperlinked list of artworks indexed alphabetically
according to (Christian) biblical/liturgical subjects.
The Brick Testament
http:// www.thebricktestament.com
On the lighter side, the Rev. Brendan Powell Smith presents scene by scene
illustrations for "Old Testament" (Genesis, Exodus to come)
and New Testament (Gospels, Acts, Epistles of Paul) stories made from
plastic "bricks" (LEGO). The accompanying text is usually from
the New Jerusalem Bible.
Art Museum Network
http://www.artmuseumnetwork.org/
"The official website of the world's leading art museums since 1996."
linked to
AMICO: Art Museum Image Consortium
http://www.amico.org/
An extensive, well organized and well presented collection of images from
art museums, searched by entering a keyword.
Art Resource
http://www.artres.com/
"The world's largest photo archive of fine art, offers a range of
material from prehistoric times to the present." The official rights
and permissions representatives of a number of art museums in the USA
and Europe. Images are cross-referenced by subject, title, artist, period,
place, and medium.
Virtual Library Museums Pages
http://vlmp.museophile.com/
"The primary web listing" of museum information, with hyperlinks
to the museums' own web pages. Museums in the USA are listed alphabetically
by name or by state or by type (Art, Children, History, Science, Technology,
Multidisciplinary, Miscellaneous). Museums outside the USA are listed
alphabetically by country or continent and then by region or city. The
complete world-wide Virtual Library Museums List is searchable by museum
name, keyword, or subject area (including Perl regular expressions).
Beth-Hatefutsoth: Museum of the Jewish
People
http://www.bh.org.il/
Includes changing online exhibitions (in English) as well as information
and images from the permanent exhibitions of The Nahum Goldman Museum
of The Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv.
A Great Assemblage:
An Exhibition of Judaica
http://www.library.yale.edu/exhibition/judaica/
Images of illuminated book manuscripts, maps, and art objects gathered
in honor of the opening of the Joseph Slifta Center for Jewish Life at
Yale in 1995.
Musei Vaticani
(Vatican Museums)
http://198.62.75.1/www1/vaticano/0-Musei.html
Selected images from the various museums that make up the Vatican Museums,
organized by specific museum (e.g., Sistine Chapel, Museo Pio Cristiano);
managed by Christus Rex.
EIKON: Image Database
for Biblical Studies
http://research.yale.edu/divdl/eikon
"A faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides
digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies.
Images in the EIKON database are a subset of the Yale Divinity School
Digital Library. Some images in the EKION database are restricted toYale
use, due to copyright agreements." Images are indexed by biblical
book, geographical location, object type, and topic; images may also be
searched by keyword.
Digital Image Archive
(16th Century)
http://www.pitts.emory.edu/DIA/about.htm
Bi-tonal images from sixteenth-century volumes in the special collections
of Pitts Theology Library of Candler School of Theology (Emory University)
in both jpeg (thumbnail and original size) and pdf format. Searchable
by image description or scripture reference.
The Episcopal Church & Visual Arts
http://www.ecva.org/
A collection of on-line exhibitions of contemporary visual art and commentary
on themes related to the Christian ligurgical year.