This is just the beginning. Check back often! Feel free to make suggestions for additions.

• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
  At this site you will find a lot of historical background about various Ancient cultures, both Western and Eastern. Maintained by the University of Evansville. Particularly interesting is the page " Conclusions", which points out that

  "...there is no neutral, objective investigation of another culture. One problem is we are so formed by our own culture that we tend automatically to judge what we see in another culture by what we "know" from our own..."

• Take a tour of the Sistine Chapel
  This site is maintained by a religious organization "Christus Rex". Since I first added it to this study guide in 1997, they have toned down their religious message considerably and focused on the "...dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world." as they stated their intent then

  They have added some historical information; the collection of art is very impressive, and it is easy to see why the site has received dozens of awards and citations from all kinds of sources, computer magazines, search engines, religious groups and organizations all over the world.

• The Seven Wonders of The Ancient World
  A wonderful website about the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, almost all of which have since all been destroyed.A must see. Check this out no matter what your particular study is. It leads to many other interesting sites. For example if you agree that structures in other parts of the Ancient World, as well as famous sites from other eras should have been added to the original list, check out the next site.

• Other Wonders of the World
  I have tried repeatedly to link this directly, but it will not work. You can get there if you go to the link above and scroll down to Other Wonders.
  "Six out of seven Ancient Wonders did not survive to this present day. Human imagination urged poets, writers, and historians to seek "replacements" for the fallen monuments. Some proposed a new list for the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Others argued that Ancient civilizations which the Greeks did not know of, erected monuments that should have been included in the original list."
  Wonders such as the
  • Great Wall of China
  • Taj Mahal in Agra
  • Stonehenge in England
  • Mayan Temples in Tikal
  • Parthenon in Greece
  • Collosseum in Rome
  are just a few examples you can access from this site.

• Statue of Liberty National Monument

• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
  Go here to find a huge collection of slides of Baroque and Renaissance Architecure, to get a general impression about architecture at that time. They are apparently used for a course in Architectural History at the University of Virginia. Unfortunately, they are not clearly labeled, so if you don't know the structure, you won't now what you're looking at.If you want to use one of these pictures you must contact the owner of the site and ask for permission.

• More wonderful pictures of Gothic Architecture, such as Notre Dame in Paris, Salisbury Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, Canterbury, Parliament and many more, can be found at the Majesty in Stone Exhibit at the Online Gallery. This is a wonderful site just to be awed by what humanity has done to "write its history in stone".

• JM Massi's Network Domicile This site has been up since 1996 and is surprisingly still up. It was last updated in September 2000 and is a mixed collection of all kinds of interests the author has. It is cited here because she has links to Gothic and Norman/Romanesque architecture. It is worth going to just because it has nice music and so many interesting links. You could spend a lot of time here, none of it to do with your homework. But then again, maybe that's a grown-up point of view and it won't be interesting to you at all, only if you happen to find the structure you're studying. It will become interesting again, when we take a look at Shakespearean Times, because there are links for that as well.
  

• Yahoo! Arts:Design Arts:Architecture:Architects:MastersThis is a listing of Architects throughout history, as a result of a Yahoo search. It is merely a place to start and needs to be refined.
  

  More later.

     

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