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Ancient



The Amheida Excavation in the Dakleh Oasis, Egypt
[more information]
     
  The Parthenon Frieze
[more information]
     
  The Doric Order
     
  Art and Archæology of the Bronze Age Mediterranean
     
  Greek Art and Architecture
     
  Roman Art and Architecture (Professor Richard Brilliant)
     
  Roman Art and Architecture (Professor Natalie Kampen)
[more information]
     
  Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture
     


Medieval



  Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais (France)
     
  Medieval Architecture
     
Medieval Architecture Digital Teaching Project
     
  The Medieval Millennium: Objects of Desire
     
  A Thousand Years of Church Architecture
     
  Medieval Rome
     
  Medieval Paris
     
  Early Medieval Art
     
  Conques, The Church of St. Foy, Animated Glossary
     
  Durham Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Durham Cathedral and Old St. Peter's Basilica: A Comparison of the Ground Plans
     
  Istanbul, Hagia Sophia Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Istanbul, Karyi Camii Interactive Ground Plan
     
  The Alhambra:
A Virtual Tour of a Medieval Palace in Islamic Spain

[more information]
     
  Amiens Cathedral
     
  Amiens Cathedral Interactive Glossary
[more information]
     
  Mapping Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Naples
     
  The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
     
  Early Christian and Byzantine Art
[more information]
     
  The Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome, 300 to 1300 AD
     
  Gothic Architecture
[more information]
     
  Gothic Sculpture: The Cathedrals of Chârtres and Reims
     
  Beauvais Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Interactive Elevation Diagrams
     
  Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Tour the Alhambra
[view excerpt, 844K]
     
  Amiens Cathedral I: Reflections (video)
[view excerpt, 1.2MB]
     
  Amiens Cathedral II: Revelations (video)
[view excerpt, 1MB]
     
  Amiens Cathedral III: Interactive Exploration (CD-ROM)
     
  Beauvais Cathedral: Architecture of Transcendence
[view excerpt, 1.2MB]
     
  Beauvais Cathedral: World Monuments Fund
[view excerpt, 1.6MB]
     
  Beauvais Cathedral: Means of Production
[view excerpt, 1.5MB]
     
  The Bourbonnais
[view excerpt, 4.2MB]
     
  Château Fort
[view excerpt, 1MB]
     
  Transfigurations: The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (video)
     
  France, Amiens, Catherdal of Notre-Dame
[ View Panoramas: Crossing, Clerestory in South Transept, and Perret Tower ]
     
  France, Bourges, Cathedral
[ View Panoramas: Nave and Ambulatory ]
     
  France, Cluny, Abbey Church
[ View Panorama: Crossing ]
     
  France, Issoire, Saint-Paul
[ View Panoramas: Nave, Crossing, and Ambulatory ]
     
  France, Noirlac
[ View Panoramas: Abbey Church, Cloister, and Refectory ]
     
  France, Orcival, Abbey Church
[ View Panorama: Crossing ]
     
  France, Paray-le-Monial, Abbey Church
[ View Panorama: Crossing ]
     
  France, Vézelay, Church of La Maleleine
[ View Panorama: Parvis, Narthex, Nave, Crossing, South Transept, Choir, Crypt, and Ambulatory]
     


Renaissance/Baroque



Mapping Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Naples
     
  The Art and Architecture of Renaissance Venice
     
  The Architecture of Renaissance Florence: Brunelleschi and Alberti
     
  Exploring the Roman Baroque: The Churches of San Andrea al Quirinale and San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
     
  Italian Renaissance Painting: The Sixteenth Century
     
  The High Renaissance in Italy
     
  Renaissance Sculpture
     
  Graphic Arts of the Renaissance
     
  Masaccio
     
  Michelangelo
     
  Raphael, The Stanza della Segnatura
[more information]
     
  Raphael
     
  Bernini
     
  Pieter Bruegel the Elder
[more information]
     
  Rembrandt
     
  Nicolas Poussin
     
  Raphael I: The Disputa I (video)
[view excerpt, 10.9MB]
     
  Raphael I: The Disputa II (video)
[view excerpt, 8.2MB]
     
  Raphael II: The School of Athens (video)
[view excerpt, 10MB]
     


Modern (19th and 20th Centuries)



The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
     
  Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania
[more information]
     
  American Art & Culture
     
  The American City
     
  19th Century Art Survey
     
  Origins of modern Visual Culture (Professor Jonathan Crary)
     
  Avant-Gardes and Postmodernisms in 20th Century Russian Art
     
  Feminist Theories and Art Practices
     
  History of Photography
     
  20th Century Art Survey (Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin Buchloh, and Christina Kiaer)
     
  20th Century Architecture
[more information]
     
  Pablo Picasso
     
  Robert Motherwell
     
  Jackson Pollock
     
Unpacking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
     
Tarim: Community and the Built Environment in Yemen
[more information]
     


Non-Western



Islamic Art and Architecture
[more information]
     
  Art and Archæology of West Africa
     
  Art and Architecture of Japan
[more information]
     
  Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture (Professor Vidya Dehejia)
     
  Thulamela
     


General


Masterpieces of Western Art
[more information]
     
  Asian Art Humanities
[more information]
     
  Barnard Art History Survey, Part I
     
  Barnard Art History survey, Part II
     
  Introduction to Architecture
     
  The Magnifier: A Digital Spy Glass for Examining Works of Art
     
  The Rise of Civilization
     
  Welcome to the Media Center
[view excerpt, 368K]
     
 
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Africa


Art and Archæology of West Africa
     
  Thulamela
     


Brazil



Andean Archæology
     


China


Asian Art Humanities
[more information]
     


Colombia



Andean Archæology
     


Ecuador


Andean Archæology
     


Egypt


The Amheida Excavation in the Dakleh Oasis, Egypt
[more information]
     


England



Medieval Architecture Digital Teaching Project
     
  Medieval Architecture
     
  Durham Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Durham Cathedral and Old St. Peter's Basilica: A Comparison of the Ground Plans
     


France


  Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais (France)
     
  Medieval Architecture
     
  Medieval Paris
     
Medieval Architecture Digital Teaching Project
     
  The Medieval Millennium: Objects of Desire
     
  Conques, The Church of St. Foy, Animated Glossary
     
  Amiens Cathedral
     
  Amiens Cathedral Interactive Glossary
[more information]
     
  Gothic Architecture
[more information]
     
  Gothic Sculpture: The Cathedrals of Chârtres and Reims
     
  Beauvais Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Interactive Elevation Diagrams
     
  Paris, Notre-Dame Cathedral Interactive Ground Plan
     
  Nicolas Poussin
     
  Amiens Cathedral I: Reflections (video)
[view excerpt, 1.2MB]
     
  Amiens Cathedral II: Revelations (video)
[view excerpt, 1MB]
     
  Amiens Cathedral III: Interactive Exploration (CD-ROM)
     
  Beauvais Cathedral: Architecture of Transcendence
[view excerpt, 1.2MB]
     
  Beauvais Cathedral: World Monuments Fund
[view excerpt, 1.6MB]
     
  Beauvais Cathedral: Means of Production
[view excerpt, 1.5MB]
     
  The Bourbonnais
[view excerpt, 4.2MB]
     
  Château Fort
[view excerpt, 1MB]
     
  Transfigurations: The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (video)
     
  France, Amiens, Catherdal of Notre-Dame
[ View Panoramas: Crossing, Clerestory in South Transept, and Perret Tower ]
     
  France, Bourges, Cathedral
[ View Panoramas: Nave and Ambulatory ]
     
  France, Cluny, Abbey Church
[ View Panorama: Crossing ]
     
  France, Issoire, Saint-Paul
[ View Panoramas: Nave, Crossing, and Ambulatory ]
     
  France, Noirlac
[ View Panoramas: Abbey Church, Cloister, and Refectory ]
     
  France, Orcival, Abbey Church
[ View Panorama: Crossing ]
     
  France, Paray-le-Monial, Abbey Church
[ View Panorama: Crossing ]
     
  France, Vézelay, Church of La Maleleine
[ View Panorama: Parvis, Narthex, Nave, Crossing, South Transept, Choir, Crypt, and Ambulatory]
     


Greece



The Parthenon Frieze
[more information]
     
  The Doric Order
     
  Greek Art and Architecture
     


India


  Masterpieces of Indian Art and Architecture
     


Italy



  Roman Art and Architecture (Professor Richard Brilliant)
     
  Roman Art and Architecture (Professor Natalie Kampen)
[more information]
     
  Early Christian and Byzantine Art
[more information]
     
  The Art and Architecture of Medieval Rome, 300 to 1300 AD
     
  Medieval Architecture
     
  Medieval Rome
     
Mapping Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Naples
     
  The Art and Architecture of Renaissance Venice
     
  The Architecture of Renaissance Florence: Brunelleschi and Alberti
     
  Italian Renaissance Painting: The Sixteenth Century
     
  The High Renaissance in Italy
     
  Renaissance Sculpture
     
  Graphic Arts of the Renaissanc