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	ICONOGRAPHIC RESOURCES: Subjects and Symbols in Art

GENERAL

Attwater, Donald. Penguin Dictionary of Saints. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1965.
    SSH Stacks BX4655.8 .A8.

Becker, Udo. Lexicon der Symbole/Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols. New York: Continuum, 1994.
    SSH Ref Stacks AZ108 .B4313 1994.

Beitrage zu Symbol, Symbolbegriff und Symbolforschung. Baden-Baden: V. Koerner, 1982.
    SSH Stacks BL311 .B45 1982.

Bell, Robert E. Dictionary of Classical Mythology: symbols, attributes and associations. Oxford; Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1982.
    SSH Ref BL715 .B44 1982.

Bibliotheca Sanctorum. 13 vol.: Rome: Instituto Giovanni XXIII della Pontificia Unversita lateranense, 1961-69.
    SSH Stacks BX4655.8 .B5.

Butler, Alban. Lives of the Saints. 4 vol.: London: Burns and Oats, 1956.
    SSH Ref Bio BX4654 .B8 1956.

Evans, Edward Payson. Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture. Detroit: Gale Research, 1969.
    AAL Stacks N7831 .E8 1969.

Ferguson, George Wells. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
    AAL Ref N7830 .F37 1959.

Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
    AAL Ref N7560 .H34.

Iconographic Research and Subject Access: a selected bibliography. Cambridge: Visual Collections, 1993.
    AAL Ref N7560 .I26 1993.

Kaftal, George. Iconography of the Saints in Italian Painting From its Beginning until the Early Years of the XVI Century. Florence: Sansoni, 1961-70.
    AAL Ref N8080 .K25.
           This ambitious work lists image source information on the saints which is divided into images, cycles and episodic scenes, and includes haiographical and art bibliographies.

Klingender, Francis Donald. Animals in Art and Thought to the End of the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass.: M. I. T. Press, 1971.
    AAL Stacks N7660 .K55.

Levi D’Ancona, Mirella. The Garden of the Renaissance: botanical symbolism in Italian painting. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1977.
    AAL Stacks ND1403 .I82 L48.

Narkiss, Bezalel. Index of Jewish Art. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and
and Humanities, 1976.
    AAL Ref N7415 N23.

Okayama, Yassu. The Ripa Index: personifications and their attributes in five editions of the Iconologia. Doornspijk: Davaco Pub., 1992.
    AAL Stacks N7740 .O53 1992.

Preston, Percy. A Dictionary of Pictorial Subjects from Classical Literature; a guide to their identification in works of art. New York: Scribner, 1983.
    AAL Ref N7760 .P68 1983.

Reau, Louis. Iconographie de l’Art Chretien. 6 vol.: Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1955-59.
    AAL Ref N7830 .R37.
        Part one is a theoretical introduction to Christian iconography, part two deals with biblical themes in art, referencing texts and works of art, Christian saints make up the third part.

Rochelle, Mercedes. Post-Biblical Saints Art Index: a locator of paintings, sculptures, mosaics, icons, frescoes, manuscript illuminations, sketches, woodcuts and engravings, created from the 4th century to 1950. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1994.
    AAL Ref N8079.5 .R63 1994.

Schiller, Gertrud. Ikonographie der Christlichen Kunst. Gutersloh: Gutersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn, 1966.
    AAL Ref N7830 .S35.

Shaw, Marvin. A Viewer’s Guide to Art: a glossary of gods, people, and creatures. Santa Fe, N.M.: J. Muir Pub., 1971.
    UGL Ref N7760 .S4 1991.

Webber, Frederick Roth. Church Symbolism; an explanation of the more important symbols of the Old and New Testament, the primitive, the medieval and the modern church. Cleveland: J. H. Jansen, 1938.
    SSH Stacks BV150 .W4 1938.

Beazley, J.D. Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978.
    AAL Stacks NK4648 .B415.

Beazley, J.D. Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
    AAL Stacks NK4649 .B44 1963.

Beazley, J.D. Paralipomena: additions to Attic black-figure vase painters and to Attic red-figure vase painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
    AAL Stacks NK4648 .B43.
        Beazley’s works lists vases in both public and private collections with bibliography and photographic information for each subject and also includes indexes listed by mythological subjects, collections, publications and painters, potters, groups and classes.

Diel, Paul. Symbolism in Greek Mythology: human desire and its transformations.
Boulder: Random House, 1980.
    SSH Stacks BL785 .D513.

Enciclopedia dell’arte Antica: classica e orientale. 7 vol.: Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1958-66.
    AAL Ref N31 .E48

Goodenough, Erwin Ramsdell. Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman period. 3 vol.: New York: Pantheon, 1968.
    SSH Annex Oversize DS111 .G65.

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Zurich: Artemis, 1981.
    AAL Ref. N7760 L49 1981.
        The LIMC examines the iconography of Greek, Etruscan and Roman mythology from after the Mycenaean period through the beginning of the Early Christian.

Green, Miranda. Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art. London: New York, 1989.
    AAL Stacks N6842 .G7 1989.

Ohlgren, Thomas. Illuminated Manuscripts: an index to selected Bodleian Library color reproductions. New York: Garland, 1977.
    AAL Stacks ND2920 .O9 1977.

Enciclopedia dell’arte Medievale. 6 vol.: Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1991-.
    AAL Ref N5965 .E63 1991.

Illuminated Manuscripts and Books in the Bodleian Library: a supplemental index. New York: Garland Pub., 1978.
    AAL Stacks ND2920 .O9 1978.

Katzenellenbogen, Adolf. Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in Medieval Art: from the early Christian times to the thirteenth century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America, 1989.
    AAL Stacks N7740 .K38 1989.

Ohlgren, Thomas. Insular and Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscripts: an Iconographic catalogue, c. A.D. 625 to 1100. New York: Garland Press, 1986.
    AAL Stacks ND3128 .O45 1986.

Allen, Don. Mysteriously Meant: the rediscovery of pagan symbolism and allegorical interpretation in the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970.
    SSH Stacks PA57 .A4.

Tervarent, Guy de. Atributes et Symboles dans L’Art Profane, 1450-1600. Geneve: E. Droz, 1958.
    AAL Stacks N7740 T4.
 

Piglar, A. Barockthemen; eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrunderts. 2 vol.: Budapest: Verlag der Ungarischen Akademis der Wissenschaften, 1956.
    AAL Ref N6410 .P5.

Ripa, Cesare. Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery: the 1758-60 Hertal edition
of Ripa’s Iconologia with 200 engraved illustrations. New York: Dover Pub., 1971.
    AAL Stacks N7740 R515 1971.

Parry, Pamela Jeffcott. Contemporary Art and Artists: an Index to Reproductions. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1979.
    AAL Ref N6490 .P3234.
 

Asiatic Mythology: a detailed description and explanation of the mythologies of all the great nations of Asia. New York: Routledge, 1989.
    SSH Stacks Oversize BL1031 .M83 1963.

Beckwith, Martha. Hawaiian Mythology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1970.
    UGL Stacks BL2620 .H3 B4 1970.

Benson, Elizabeth. Maya Iconography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
    SSH Stacks F1435.3 A7 M27 1988.

Bhattacharya, Benoytosh. The Indian Buddhist Iconography, mainly based on the Sadhanamala and Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals. Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1968.
    AAL Stacks N7301 .B47 1958.

Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentinsh. Elements of Buddhist Iconography. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1935.
    AAL Stacks N7302 .C65.

Eberhard, Wolfram. A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: hidden symbols in Chinese life and thought. London: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1986.
    SSH Ref Stacks DS721 .E32613 1986.

Fehervari, Geza. 1400 Years of Islamic Art: a descriptive catalog. London: Khalili Gallery, 1981.
    AAL Stacks N6264 .G7 L665 1981.

Gorden, Antoinette. The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism. New York: Paragon Books, 1967.
    AAL Stacks NB1046 .T5 G6 1967.

Iconography of Religions; North America. Leinden: Brill, 1973-87.
    SSH Stacks E78 .S65 H8 Hudson, C. Elements of Southeastern Religion.
    SSH Stacks E78 .G73 H84 Hultkrantz, A. Prairie and Plains Indians.
    SSH Stacks E99 .N3 G492 Gill, S. Navajo religious culture.
    SSH Stacks E99 .P9 W73 Wright, B. Pueblo Cultures.
    SSH Stacks E99 .H7 G443 Geertz, A. Hopi Indian Altar Iconography.
    SSH Stacks E78 .E2 F44 Feest, C. Indians of Northeastern America.

Jaffe, Irma B., ed. Imagining the New World: Columbian iconography. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1991.
    AAL Stacks E112 .I42 1991.

Liebert, Gosta. Iconographic Dictionary of the Indian Religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism. Delhi: Sri Satguru Pub., 1986.
    SSH Stacks DS503 S77.

Nasr, Seyyed. Sacred Art in Persian Culture. Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1976.
    AAL Stacks NX574 .A1 N37.

Nicholson, Irene. Mexican and Central American Mythology. New York: Bedrick Books, 1985.
    SSH Stacks F1219.3 R38 N5 1985.

Parrinder, Edward Geoffrey. Dictionary of Non-Christian Religions. Amersham: Hulton, 1971.
    SSH Ref BL31 .P36.

Poignant, Roslyn. Oceanic Mythology: the myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia. London: Hamlyn, 1967.
    SSH Stacks Oversize BL2600 .P6.

Renard, John. Islam and the Heroic Image: themes in literature and the visual arts. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.
    SSH Stacks DS35.62 .R46 1993.

Stutley, Margaret. The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography. London: Routedge, Kegan Paul, 1985.
    AAL Stacks N8195 .A4 S78 1985.

Zimmer, Heinrich Robert. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization. New York: Harper, 1962.
    SSH Stacks BL2003 .Z5 1962.