ICONCLASS Computer file available on single workstation at the Rockefeller Reference area Description of Database: The ICONCLASS system contains approximately 24,000 definitions of objects, persons, events, situations and abstract ideas. With these definitions one can 'describe' the subjects of visual images. 13,000 unique keywords help to locate the notations needed for describing or indexing a picture. The Bibliography contains some 40,000 references to books and articles of iconographical and cultural historical interest. Years of Coverage: N/A Sources: Primary sources, iconographic handbooks, exhibition catalogs, monographs, and articles in the field of cultural history and art history in general and iconography in particular. Update Schedule: Irregular Content Type: 40,000 bibliographic citations; also a decimal classification of iconography indexed by 13,000 keywords. Related Print Resources ICONCLASS: an iconographic classification system Rockefeller Z697 .A8 .W3 1973 User guide ICONCLASS User Guide Print user guide available at Rockefeller Reference Desk. Contact Norine Duncan Curator of the Art Slide Library 863-3082 Norine_Duncan@brown.edu Comments to: Brown University Library Web Team Last Updated:"Thursday, 19-May-2005 16:52:28 EDT" © 2001, Brown University Library. All rights reserved You are the 1,165th visitor since January 13, 2001.