College of Theology

A thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects.

Provides organizational, ministry-related and seasonal graphics/illustrations for use by church organizations free of charge.

Digitized copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of their contents. You will find here the St. Cuthbert Gospel and Lindisfarne Gospels, the Harley Golden Gospels, Beowulf, the Silos Apocalypse, Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook, the Petit Livre d’Amour and the Golf Book. The collection includes Greek, Thai, Persian, Hebrew Manuscripts, and Royal Illuminated Manuscripts.

The Walters Art Museum holds one of the leading collections of Byzantine Art in the United States. Henry Walters took an early interest in Byzantine art, buying at a time when there were limited collectors in this field. The strengths of the Walters’ collection include a group of over two thousand decorative tile fragments, the Hama collection of liturgical silver and illuminated manuscripts. The Walters’ Byzantine art is supported by an important collection of Russian and Orthodox icons.

Museum collection of Christian art of 14th-17th century.

The Internet Archive processed more than 2 million volumes from its digital archive, compiling more than 14 million high resolution images spanning nearly every topic imaginable. Each image includes detailed descriptions, including the subject tags of the book it came from and the text immediately surrounding it on the page. The latter is especially powerful, as it allows to keyword search 500 years of images, instantly accessing particular topics or themes.

Explore more than 707,000 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. You can use images that are in public domain.

A collection of more than 440,000 high-resolution digital images for free download. The Metropolitan Museum’s initiative-called Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC)-provides access to images of art in its collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions; these images are now available for scholarly use in any media.

Giphy is an animated search engine that allows one to search, share, and discover GIFs on the Internet. Similar to the way other search engines work, the majority of our content comes from indexing based on the best and most popular GIFs and search terms across the web. All those GIFs are organized so you can find the good content easier and share it out through your social channels. We also feature some of our favorite GIF artists and work with brands to create and promote their original GIF content.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, images and data regarding significant primary materials from all countries and cultures. Item types include books, journals, manuscripts, maps, motion pictures, newspapers, prints and photographs, and sound recordings.

The AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research related to the history of Christianity. See also Divinity Library Photographs dated from from 1855 to 1978.

The Digital Image Archive (DIA) presents more than 65,000 images of biblical illustrations, portraits of religious leaders, printers' devices, engravings of church buildings, and other theological topics.

Very useful website for discovering images by: biblical theme, scriptural text, or lectionary date. Note: this is a free website and some links may be broken. You can take the information from the image (author, title) and cross-reference it with other image collections. Author: Jenee Woodard

A freely available, regularly updated visual image internet resource. Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, all of the images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes. From the Vanderbilt Divinity Library.

A web repository of digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

Welcome to Atla Digital Library.
Find archival, historical, and special collections in religion and theology from libraries, religious institutions, and archives worldwide.

Bible Land Pictures Archive contains tens of thousands of pictures covering a wide range of Bible related subjects: Historical and Archeological sites, aerial and close up views, museum objects, coins, inscriptions, mosaics etc. Different ethnic and religious groups, individually portrayed in their daily activities and colorful ceremonies.

Another useful site for finding images by: biblical subject, biblical text, artist, or keyword search. Author: Rolf E. Stærk

Images from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries of biblical illustrations, portraits of religious leaders, printers' devices, engravings of church buildings, and other theological topics from the Pitts Theological Library.

The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative (CDRI) is a repository of digital primary sources from multiple institutional archives and special collections. It primarily provides access to digital images (but also video and text) representing various forms of Christian artifacts, art, architecture, literature, and iconography.
CDRI is produced by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and Association of Theological Schools (ATS). Digital content is contributed by ATLA and ATS member libraries and made possible by funding from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a digital collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts housed in American libraries and cultural institutions. DS provides an online catalog and digital images of these collections, uniting scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

The Ferguson collection consists of over 9600 color slides taken by Dr. Ferguson while on trips to study the antiquities of Europe and the Near East. The slides are primarily photographs of museum artifacts, historical buildings, and archaeological sites. They were used as visual aids for his lectures on ancient world history, religion, and Christianity's development, art, and symbolism through the Middle Ages.