Learn how to identify the saints in medieval and renaissance art.

Read the stories that the paintings refer to.

Find out the "why" behind traditional elements in paintings of scriptural events.

Use this search engine….

Example: if you’re curious about a picture of a saint shown with a tower, just enter "tower" into the search field (without the quotation marks). You’ll learn she is St. Barbara, and you can read about her, view similar images, and follow a link to the medieval legend about her.

via Christian Iconography.