GENERAL
INFORMATION:
Artcyclopedia This is a fairly
comprehensive search engine for Art History.
Easter
Island Monoliths (This NOVA website has information about the
monoliths on Easter island. You can even play a game where you try to move
stones across the island!)
Building Stonehenge (This
site goes through the step-by-step process of how Stonehenge was built.)
The Law
Code of Hammurabi This link goes to the Avalon Project at Yale Law
School. The site has a translation of the stele of Hammurabi.
PALEOLITHIC:
Cave
paintings (This site has interactive maps of the Cosquer caves.)
Paleolithic
art (This site is dedicated to the Chauvet caves. The website is a little
slow loading.)
Lascaux caves
(One interesting feature of this website is that it has a virtual tour of
the Lascaux caves, with the first page of the website simulating how the
caves would look by the light of a flashlight.)
EGYPT:
Date
Converter for Ancient Egypt
Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project
(This site is through the University of Memphis is the link sometimes does
not work.)
Inside the Egyptian pyramids
(This site has many 360 degree shots of sites throughout Egypt including
pictures taken inside the pyramids.)
Giza pyramids
(This site details the calculations of the Giza pyramids. You can even
build your own online!)
Interactive
map of Egypt (This interactive map of Egypt brings up a clickable
picture and written documentation about areas on the map.)
Pyramid building
(This Discovery Channel site has a game where you can build the Great
Pyramid at Giza. The
site includes a brief history as well.)
Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to Art
of the Ancient World (The Art Institute of Chicago)
GREEK AND ROMAN:
Ancient City of Athens This Indiana University site has a photographic archive of the
archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Greece.
Diotima's Ritual
Bibliography (Materials for the study of Women and Gender in the Ancient
World)
Perseus Homepage (The Perseus
Digital Library)
Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
(A cooperative effort
of the
American Philological Association's
Classical Atlas Project,
the departments of Classics and
History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and the UNC-CH Classics Department's
Apollo Project.)
Virtual Library of Archaeology (ArchNet
Home Page)
MEDIEVAL EUROPE:
Renaissance
(an Annenberg/CPB Exhibit) with links to:
Introduction
Out
of the Middle Ages
Exploration
and Trade
Printing
and Thinking,
Symmetry,
Shape, Size
Focus
on Florence
Life
in Florence
Florence
Art and Architecture
The Plague in Medieval Europe:
Plague
and Public Health in Renaissance Europe (Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities)
The
Effect of the Plague on Music and Art
The
Black Death in Civitas
Other Links of Interest for Medieval Art and Architecture:
Netsword: The Internet Sword
and Medieval Weapons Discussion Group
Medieval
Latin (Latin Cultural Resources)
Digital
Scriptorium (Catalog of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts)
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures: Medieval Europe
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
Medieval
Art
Resources
and Sites for Medieval Art History (UCLA)
Exhibits
Collection: Medieval Art (What was it really like to live in the
middle ages?)
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures
ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Islamic Arts and Architecture
(IAAO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information on
arts and architecture.
DIGITAL SIMULATIONS/RECONSTRUCTIONS
The most extensive collection of 360 degree panoramas, virtual tours,
and 3D reconstructions of sites can be found on Dr. Arne Flaten's website
(Coastal Carolina University)
Virtual Tours,
Reconstructions, 3-D Renderings & Panoramas of Major Monuments in Western
Art (from Dr. Arne Flaten's website, Coastal Carolina University)
Ashes2Art
(Coastal Carolina University) This Coastal Carolina University student
project focuses on Renaissance Florence. One of the things that makes this
site so unusual is that it was created by students in a course.
Past Perfect: The Virtual
Archaeology of Durham and Northumberland Past Perfect is a New
Opportunities Fund grant-aided project run jointly by Durham and
Northumberland County Councils. It uses the latest in virtual reality
interactive technology to bring the archaeology and history of the two
counties alive.
Digital Roman Forum
From 1997 to 2003 the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory (CVR
Lab) created a digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late
antiquity. The notional date of the model is June 21, 400 A.D. From 2002
to 2005, with generous support from the National Science Foundation, the
CVRLab was able to create this Web site about the digital Forum model.
MUSEUM LINKS:
Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence, Italy
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, NY
Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery London,
London, England
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
MODERN/CONTEMPORARY ART:
Modern Art Foundry
ArtLex on Abstract
Expressionism
ArtLex on Popular Art
Journal of Contemporary Art
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