Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline Art History; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the Renaissance book with illustrated engravings "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo's Dream about the Strife of Love)" by Francesco Colonna, with a description and images from the...
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Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Comission: Classical Orders of Columns
Review key features of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of ancient Greek architecture, with diagrams that label the cornice, frieze, architrave, metope, triglyph, capital, and column shaft of each order.
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Turizm.net: Palaces, Aquaducts, Water Cisterns
This page includes descriptions of Byzantine architecture such as palaces, aqueducts, and water cisterns. Links to other information relating to the topic.
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Turizm.net: Byzantine Remnants in Anatolia & Ankara
Check out this site for a description of Byzantine architectural ruins found throughout the former Byzantine Empire, particularly modern Anatolia and Ankara (Turkey).
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Maulbronn Monastery:world Heritage in Baden Wuerttemberg
This site includes brief explanations of the history and architecture of the monastery, along with excellent photographs of the buildings.
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Boston History and Architecture: Boston Tea Party
Citing the Boston Tea Party has been a rallying cry. Find out what the real reasons were behind the actions of the Sons of Liberty on that night of December 16, 1773. What made the colonists so angry and the reactions of the British lay...
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Dwellings: The Message of Houses and Their Contents, 1780 1820
Architectural styles of the times reflected the economic status and taste of the individuals who owned the houses. As this turn of the century proceeded from 1780 to 1820, many changes occurred in communication, transportation,...
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American Centuries, View From New England
A multi-purpose site that provides information on history and historic artifacts from New England. There are also some interesting games that serve to enhance learning about New England. Be sure to watch video demonstrations of Early...
Columbia University
Columbia University: Mapping Gothic France
A full description of this superb project is given here, along with a link to the actual project website. It is basically a database of all significant Gothic monuments in France and includes over twenty thousand photographs and...
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Museum Tours: The David Roberts Gallery: David Roberts, r.a.
David Roberts was a 19th century artist who traveled to Egypt and nearby regions to paint and draw architectural structures and people. His published work was very popular in England. This is a collection of 124 pieces of his work that...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Temple of Invention
A wonderful click-through slideshow of one of America's most-graceful examples of Gothic Revival architecture. The U.S. Patent Office Building, which dates from 1836, is now home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National...
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: The Great Exhibition
This is the topic page for the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, 1851. There are several links on related topic matter.
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The Noble Sanctuary Online Guide
This site presents a detailed guide to Al-Haram al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary, in Jerusalem. Content includes a history of the area, as well as detailed information on various aspects of the sanctuary including the "Dome of the Rock."
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The Normans, a European People
Get to know all about the history, culture, architecture, and archaeology of the Normans, a European civilization from the 9th-16th centuries.
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Explore Byzantium: The Byzantium Empire
Step back in time to the Byzantine Empire with the help of timelines, articles on Byzantine history and people, and book reviews. A gallery of high-quality photographs of Byzantine art and architecture is a must-see, as well as the...
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Golden Age of Islam
Learning module considers the language, literature, material culture, and architectural monuments of classical Islamic civilization (AD 610-1258).
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China Daily: China Culture a Z
Go directly to a collection of illustrated feature-length articles about traditional and contemporary Chinese arts. Covers the principal visual and performing arts of China, for example, traditional crafts, calligraphy, architecture,...
University at Buffalo
University of Buffalo: Images of the Arch of Titus
Every side and angle of the Arch of Titus is pictured at this site. Just choose which side you want to see, and click on it. Voila! You won't find more pictures at one site on any one piece of architecture than you will at this one!
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Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: 1880 1889
The 1880's in America were chock full of new architecture, technologies, businesses, modern conveniences such as gas and electric, operas, fashions, and much more as featured in this resource.
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Italy Guides: Virtual Travel to Pompeii, Italy
Explore the city of Pompeii in this virtual tour. Houses, temples, baths, arches, and other structures are all on display. The history of Pompeii is explained, and each interactive structure is accompanied by a description. The different...
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Touring Turn of the Century America
This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...
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American University (Cairo): Theban Mapping Project
Explore the ancient city of Thebes at this amazing website that brings together zoomable maps, video, images, text, a glossary and timeline, and other resources to help learners understand the significance of the ongoing archaeological...
Vroma Project
V Roma: Arch of Titus
This sensational chunk of information about the Arch of Titus would be very helpful to the researcher. It discusses the age of the arch, why it was built, the history at the time of its construction, relief sculptures on the arch, and...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: John Ruskin
This site from The Victorian Web provides an excellent variety of resources about Victorian author John Ruskin. It takes one from a detailed biography and relative social and political history, to themes, critical theory, and information...
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