Posts Tagged ‘architectural history’
The Centre des Monuments Nationaux conserves, restores, and manages nearly 100 national monuments, opening up these sites of social, cultural, and architectural history for public consumption. The website uses a geographic search feature to locate pages devoted to the Pantheon, Tours Cathedral, the house of George Sand, and many more. Monument pages include photographs and videos, points of historical interests, details about tours and other activities on site, and a list of literature specific to the building.
Tags: architectural history, Baroque, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, conservation, cultural history, France, French history, gardens, modern, modernism, neoclassicism, preservation, renassiance, social history, tourism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 23, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur consists of around 2 million images of art and architecture located in Germany and throughout Europe. While Bildindex is a German-language site, it is navigable for the English speaker through interactive features that provide information about the current location and history of the image object. The product of over 30 years of collection development, Bildindex hosts a wide range of image types (drawings, photographs, paintings, prints, plans) as well as special collections and continues to grow by sponsoring further digitization projects.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bildindex, drawings, Europe, European architecture, German architecture, Germany, Italian architecture, manuscripts, modernism, painting, photographs, plans, Renaissance, search tool
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 17, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Inmagine is the world’s largest royalty-free stock photography site with over 3.5 million images from over 100 best-selling collections. With images organized into galleries and categories, they are easy to search even without using Inmagines innovative search tools including Insight keyword search and Universal Search, a mechanism using geography and language detection to locate images. In addition, Inmagine offers a number of services including image enlargement and retouching.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, clip art, culture, design, illustrations, images, Inmagine, landscape, landscape architecture, photography, stock images, stock photography, urban design, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Smallen House, 1957
The Philip Johnson Glass House and the State of Connecticut announced Phase III in their efforts to move modern preservation forward with the launch of the new documentary film Living Modern in Connecticut. Living Modern examines modern architecture in Connecticut including the work of Saarinan and Breuer asking if this architecture is danger of disappearing. The film premiers on CPTV Thursday, November 12th.
In addition, The Philip Johnson Glass House is teaming with the State and number of other local and regional civic and preservation organizations to create a the Multiple Property Documentation Form. The Multiple Property Documentation Form will further the work of the 2008 Modern Homes Survey by facilitating the effort to identify and preserve modern homes in Connecticut in addition to providing registry with the National Register of Historic Places.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, Connecticut, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, CPTV, historic preservation, Living Modern in Connecticut, Modern Homes Survey, Multiple Property Documentation Form, National Register of Historic Places, New Canaan, New Canaan Historical Society, New Canaan Preservation Alliance, Northeast Office of the National Trust, Phase III, Philip Johnson Glass House, preservation
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 11, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history in ten historic periods ranging from the early modern period to the present. Each section includes an introduction to key historical developments as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and relevant maps. All of the materials can be accessed through keyword and author searches. Advanced options also allow searches to be limited and refined.
Tags: 20th-century Germany, architectural history, architecture, art history, documents, early modern Germany, German history, German History in Documents and Images, GHDI, images, maps, modern Germany, photography, translated documents
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 9, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography, words | No Comments »
Travel site Arounder uses Google maps to organize interactive, panoramic exhibits of a number of European cities and a few American sites. For each location listed on Arounder, a number of panoramic views are available including views of church interiors, city streets, public plazas, and natural or manufactured landscapes.
Tags: architectural history, Arounder, cultural history, culture, digital panorama, European architecture, Georgia, Google maps, landscape, panoramas, photography, travel, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 8, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
On November 7th, the Ashmolean will reopen after a £61 million redevelopment. Adding 39 new galleries, this renovation focuses on integrating new ways of seeing the past into both the fabric of the building and the experience it enfolds. Architect Rick Mather worked with the museum to create a space that facilitated not only the enjoyment of objects on display but also new and broader understandings of their historical meaning.
For more information read this Gaurdian article.
Tags: archaeology, architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Ashmolean Museum, contemporary architecture, renovation, Rick Mather, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 6, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art | No Comments »
With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman Art Library is a comprehensive source for fine art, architectural and historical images. Bridgeman’s search tools allow the user to browse the collection thematically (architecture, land and sea, emotions and ideas, etc.) and by image type (black and white photograph, object, illustration, etc.), artist, and participating collections.
Tags: architectural history, art, art history, Bridgeman Art Library, cultural history, culture, database, image collections, images, interior design, landscape architecture, photographs, sculpture, urban design, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 4, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
behold allows you to browse flickr for images that are free to use and modify or circulate commercially. This search tool simplifies the process of determining limits of use while enabling the user to access a wide range of photographs taken and published by amateurs and professionals the world over.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, behold, copyright, digital images, fair use, Flickr, landscape, photographs, photography, sustainability, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 2, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, copyright, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture donated by leading South Asian Islamic art and architectural historian Alka Patel and 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals created by David Boggett are now available in ARTstor. In addition, over 80,000 photographs of high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities, 1,000 images of works on paper by Mark Rothko, and 1,400 images of medieval stained glass windows from the 12th through 16th centuries have also been made available.
Tags: Alka Patel, architectural history, architecture, art, ARTstor, David Boggett, image presentation, images, Islamic architecture, Japanese architecture, Japanese art, Mark Rothko, photographs, photography, South Asian architecture, visual resources collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 28, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
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