On May 14th, the 4th edition of Iconclass launched. This edition has a dataset of images, indexed over the years by a large group of heritage institutions using Iconclass. It also has an iconographic bibliography of more than 60,000 items and deep links to other sources of iconographic information such as the Warburg Institute’s Iconographic Database and the Princeton Index of Medieval Art. It contains deep links to various iconographically important text sources such as the Bible, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Adagia by Erasmus. In addition it has an A.I. supported Visual Search which allows you to use pictures as a search ’question’. As always the Iconclass site is Open Access; everyone can use it free of charge.
From July 1st 2024 it will also be possible for institutions and individual researchers to become a member of the Iconclass consortium.