This site provides an excellent variety of essays divides the topic of the sublime into four categories: objective sublime, subjective sublime, characteristic literary motifs, and cultural relations.

Ife ( pronounced ee-feh) is today regarded as the spiritual heartland of the Yoruba people living in Nigeria, the Republic of Benin and their many descendants around the world. It is rightly regarded as the birthplace of some of the...

Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.

Definition of "art" according to ArtLex, a dictionary of art terms. Includes links to other important terms, as well as a long list of quotations defining "art."

On this comprehensive site, the important values and benefits of wilderness are examined. The topics covered include: ecological benefits; economic benefits; education; geological value; history and culture; recreation; scenic and...

From the Princeton University Art Museum, this page looka at the a large postclassic Nahua ceramic effigy censer preserved in the museum collections. "Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven" examines this effigy censer from all angles of it's...

Andrew Ward decides to get into the middle of an argument between David Hume and Hume's critic Malcolm Budd about the standard for assessing the value of works of art upon the feeling of pleasure or displeasure. This topic will be a...

"The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel" by Velasco represents an important period in the development of Mexico's national identity and an important chapter in the history of Mexican art. Velasco's landscapes became...

ArtCyclopedia's complete list of silversmiths from the 18th and 19th centuries. There are links to the artists' biography and works.

This site gives an overview of classicism, then proceeds to compare it with neoclassicism. The article then explores the roots of the term "classicism" and its inherent meaning to the Greeks and Romans. Contains a French translation.