Art History- Resourses on the web.
Ancient Greece -This Web site is devoted to information of all things relating to ancient Greece. The site includes information on such topics as; Art, Architecture, Geography, History, Mythology, Olypmics, People, Wars and Other Resources.
Creative Impulse - World History and Western Civilization - This is a good annotated and rated directory of Internet resources for the study of history. The sections include: Prehistory; Mesopotamia;Egypt; India; China; Greece; Rome; Byzantine; Medieval; Renaissance; Exploration; Baroque; Age of Enlightenment; Revolutions; Age of Industry; and Modern.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 - The life and works of Michelangelo, including links to numerous illustrations as well as related sites.
Mother of All Art History links pages - Sponsored by the University of Michigan Art Department
World Art Treasures - One of the most original cultural sites on the World Wide Web. This collection (over 100,000 slides) of art historian Jacques-Edouard Berger is being presented by his father, also a historian, Rene Berger. Currently includes: Vermeer and his contemporaries in Italy, Spain, France, and Holland; Italian Renaissance gardens - Villa d'Este,Bomarzo, Villa Lante; A Shared Vision - Egypt, China; Botticelli -including a history of the world at this time
WWW Virtual Library of Art History
Renaissance
End of Europe's Middle Ages - This multimedia tutorial provides "a brief overview of the conditions at the end of Europe's Middle Ages, the tutorial is presented in a series of chapters that summarize the economic, political, religious and intellectual environment of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." Sections include: Economy, Feudal Institutions , New Monarchies, Holy Roman Empire, Italy's City-States, Eastern Europe,Ottoman Empire, The Church, Literature, Visual Arts, and Music. Produced by The Applied History Research Group at the University of Calgary.
Palladio, Andrea - 1508-1580 - The virtual Palladio Museum contains information on the influential workof this Renaissance architect. There are profiles of many of the buildings he designed, with location, commission, date, plan, and photographs. Also includes his The Four Books of Architecture and O.Berlotti Scarmozzi's The Buildings and the Designs of Andrea Palladio.See also Palladio's Italian Villas, which includes more information onhislife and works.
Perseus Project - Digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world.Originally begun with coverage of the Archaic and Classical Greek world,has now expanded to Latin text and tools and Renaissance materials.Contains: hundreds of texts by the major ancient authors; lexica andmorphological databases and catalog entries for over 2,800 vases,sculptures, coins, buildings, and sites, including over 13,000 photographs of such objects
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - This is a large collection of architectural photographs from the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe
Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order? - This attractive site describes aspects of the European Renaissance including its origins in the Middle Ages, the rise of navigation and trade, development of the printing press, arts, and the Renaissance in Florence Italy. From Annenberg/CPB Projects Learner Online site.
Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time - This site combines real people, such as Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, and real places like the Globe Theatre, Sistine Chapel, Tower of London, and University of Padua, with generic fictionalized locations and citizens, to create an entertaining and inclusive picture of Renaissance life. Information can be accessed through a wide variety of characters, locations, and chronologies as well as a general introduction to the period. There are a myriad of links to related sites and citations to written sources. An outstanding ThinkQuest winner.
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