Surf these sites: A Momentary Vignette -- An almost daily exploration of architecture, design, and art. Antique Prints of Architectural Monuments -- The Philographikon Gallery sells 17th and 18th-century prints of Classical, Renaissance and Baroque Italian architecture. Images with general descriptions of each group. Architecture Through the Ages -- An introduction to world architecture produced by American teenagers through Think Quest. Images, discussion and bibliography for Egyptian, Chinese, Aztec, Mayan, Greek Roman and Gothic buildings. Art Historians'' Guide to the Movies -- "The Art Historians'' Guide to the Movies is a record of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies. It is intended to be a source for teachers of art history who are considering showing clips or entire films as part of their presentation of the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture." Center for the Study of Architecture. -- Housed on Bryn Mawr Campus, it provides an archival home for computer models of architectural monuments and archaeological sites. Cities and Buildings Image Database -- Features over 5500 images of architecture and city views from around the world. Corbis Digital Pictures: Architecture -- Thousands of professional photographs of historic buildings are available for purchase, but can be viewed free on-line. Cupola Collection -- An eclectic collection of cupolas, architecture, art, and picturesque landscapes from around the world. Other galleries include Wordplay and Autocad sections. Digital Archive of Architecture -- Images of buildings in Europe and America from prehistoric to 20th century by Prof. Jeffrey Howe of Boston College, USA. Digital Images of Historic Architecture -- Galleries of photographs of European and North American architecture from Classical to Post-Modern, whole facades and details, with explanations, by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, US. Edgecombe Group, Inc. Multimedia Program -- Advertising CDs with an image library of historic and contemporary styles of Western architecture. A few samples online. Glass Steel and Stone -- Offers photographs of outstanding buildings in North America and Europe, historic and modern. Laden with advertising. Great Buildings Online -- Documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects across the world with 3D models, photographs and drawings, commentaries, biographies and bibliographies. Searchable. Historical Floorplan Emporium -- Floorplans for major historic buildings around the world are supplied here free by B-Ware Software. As they are large and detailed, some are slow-loading. History of Stained Glass -- Illustrated outline provided by the Art Glass Suppliers Association International. History of Western Architecture -- Galleries of images arranged by period from Egyptian to Baroque, with basic information, courtesy of the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office. Periods in Art History -- The Technological Institute of Monterrey, Campus Tampico, Mexico, offers an illustrated outline of Western art and architecture. PlanetWare Travel Photos -- Several thousand professional photographs from around the world, many of them of architecture. Subscribers can access guide book text. SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library -- Online images from the large collection of slides at the University of California at Berkeley. Can be searched by period, place, building name, personal name, subject type. The History of Western Architecture -- Lengthy, illustrated article in Encyclopędia Britannica, with full bibliography, tracing architecture of European origin from Minoan Crete to the 20th century. UNESCO World Heritage -- With 582 cultural and natural sites already protected worldwide, the World Heritage Centre is working to make sure that future generations can inherit the treasures of the past. And yet, most sites face a variety of threats, particularly in today''s environement. The preservation of this common heritage concerns us all. World Art Treasures -- Images of Renaissance gardens and Rococo architecture in Europe, and temples in Egypt and the Far East from the collection of slides in the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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