LibGuides: Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: Literature &amp; Mythology

Literature & Mythology

BASIRA: Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
"Open-access online database of representations of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 and 1600 CE."
Illustrated Quixote, Brown University Library
Digitized illustrations from editions of El Quijote held at the John Hay Library.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Illustrated Shakespeare Collection
"This online collection, originally published in venues as disparate as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th centuries."

Unknown artist. Codex Fejérváry-Mayer. Aztec, ca.1400-1520. Liverpool Museum. Public domain.