Luther Seminary: Worship: Art & Images

Online Image Libraries

The Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database is a freely available, regularly updated visual image internet resource. All images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes.

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-search.pl

SBL's website Bible Odyssey has many excellent resources including an image gallery.

Artwork is indexed according to Biblical/Liturgical subjects and also listed by liturgical year.

Print Images and Databases

Dictionary of Biblical Imagery by Leland Ryken (Editor); James C. Wilhoit (Editor); Tremper Longman (Editor)
Call Number: BS537 .D52 Ref.
ISBN: 0830814515
Publication Date: 1998-12-02
Dictionary of Christian Art by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (Editor)
Call Number: BV150 .A66 Ref.
ISBN: 0826410650
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
Index of Biblical Images by Warren W. Wiersbe
Call Number: BS537 .W54
ISBN: 0801091071
Publication Date: 2000-07-01

Web Gallery of Art This link opens in a new window
European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Benezit Dictionary of Asian Artists This link opens in a new window
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Biographical information of Asian artists from antiquity to the present.
Art in the Christian Tradition This link opens in a new window
Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators,.
All images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes.
Art and the Bible This link opens in a new window
Links to Bible-related art.

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