LIFE Photo Archive Now Hosted by Google

Google has made the LIFE photo archive available for searching. They have information about the project here. Now when you go to images.google.com you can add "source:life" to your search to find images from the LIFE archive.

Information on Iconography

Throughout history, artists have use images to tell a story or convey some meaning. The word iconography means "image writing." For a more in depth definition, see this article on iconography at Wikipedia.

Following are some sites I found that explain some of the meanings associated with artistic imagery:

Christian Iconography

Gravestone Motifs & Their Meanings

Art Symbols Dictionary: Flowers and Plants

I hope these help. Please let me know if you have some other lists that I may be helpful.

Extensive Flickr Woodcarving Album

Doug send me this link to an extensive Flickr album of woodcarving photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/sets/72157594361473412/

Take some time to enjoy over 5000 woodcarving pictures.

Visual Aids for Last Supper Design

One of the students in my class thinking about carving a last supper. He thinking of carving this in the round rather than as a relief. With this in mind we discussed several ways to arrange the composition. I offered to find some images that might help with the creative process.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Levoca_Last_Supper.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Giotto_-_Scrovegni_-_-29-_-_Last_Supper.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Last_Supper_by_Theophanes_the_Cretan.jpg

Some other images that may be interesting can be found at:

http://www.museum-replicas.com/wc_ProductDetails.asp?PID=5969&SCID=

http://www.easterinthepark.net/lastsupper.html

http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rubens/rubens102.html

In addition, check out the Last Supper images at Wikimedia Commons:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Last_supper

FromOldBooks.org

I ran across fromoldbooks.org which is a site with thousands of high resolution images from old or rare books. Most of these images are now public domain. This should make one more useful reference site.