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Art History Medieval Resources: Iconography

Classical Iconographies

Classical myths and legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance : a dictionary of allegorical meanings 
Call Number: KEN Ref PN 669 B78 1998

Dictionary of pictorial subjects from classical literature : a guide to their identification in works of art 
Call Number: KEN Ref  N 7760 P68 1983

Gods and heroes of classical antiquity
Call Number: KEN Ref N 7760 A34 1996

Animal Iconographies

Animals as disguised symbols in Renaissance art
Call Number: N/7660/C64/2008  (shelved in Kenyon Main Staicks) 
also available electronically:
Animals as disguised symbols in Renaissance art.

Continuum encyclopedia of animal symbolism in art 
Call Number: KEN Ref GR 705 W47 2004 

Mythical zoo [electronic resource]: an encyclopedia of animals in world myth, legend, and literature

Religious Iconographies

Saints and their symbols 
Call Number: KEN Ref ND1430 G55313 2012

Seeable signs the iconography of the seven sacraments, 1350-1544 [electronic resource]   

General Iconographies

Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative [electronic resource]

Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art 
Call Number: KEN Ref N 7560 H34 2008

Encyclopedia of comparative iconography: themes depicted in works of art 
Call Number: KEN Ref N 7565 E53 1998 vol. 1-2