Things: Artworks, Artifacts, and Historical Objects

A virtual museum of art, artifacts, objects and creative works of all kinds, whether in their original settings or in museums. For architectural and structural works, see Places.

Featured Things

3: Nativity of Christ

c. 1150

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

Pax of Ariberto

c. 1030

Milan Cathedral Treasury
Milan, Italy

Apse Mosaic

c. 1295

Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
Rome, Italy

Royal Portal Capital Frieze

c. 1150

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

4: Anointing of Jesus

c. 1205

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

14: Massacre of the Innocents

c. 1150

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

Journey of the Magi

Fidenza Cathedral
Fidenza, Italy

Early Christian Sarcophagus with Symbols

Musée Saint-Raymond
Toulouse, France

Charlemagne Window

c. 1225

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

Lady and the Unicorn Tapestry

c. 1485

National Museum of the Middle Ages
Paris, France

Early Christian Sarcophagus with Agnus Dei

Sant'Apollinare in Classe

Joseph Window

c. 1205

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

Three Magi Before Herod

Fidenza Cathedral
Fidenza, Italy

Early Christian Sarcophagus with Plant Motifs

Musée Saint-Raymond
Toulouse, France

10: Raising of Lazarus

c. 1205

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

Statues of St. Peter and St. Paul

c. 1838

St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican City, Vatican City

Triumphal Arch Mosaic

c. 435

Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
Rome, Italy

9: Journey of the Magi

c. 1150

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

Capital 52: Adoration of the Magi; Slaughter of the Innocents

c. 1100

Cloister

1: Bankers

c. 1205

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

Transfer of St. Clement's Relics

Basilica di San Clemente
Rome, Italy

Becket Window 1

c. 1180

Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, England, UK

13: Herod Orders Massacre of the Innocents

c. 1150

Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France

Saint-Orens Sarcophagus

Musée Saint-Raymond
Toulouse, France