Posts Tagged ‘cultural 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 »
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 »
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 »
Harvard University Libraries have created VIA (Visual Information Access), a growing online catalog uniting collections from various Harvard libraries and archives including the GSD, Fine Arts Library, Harvard Film Archive, Arnold Arboretum and Horticulture Library, and more. Documenting material culture, and social history, VIA is an excellent research tool, containing descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. New material is added daily.
Tags: ancient, archaeology, architectural history, architecture, archive, art history, arts, books, botany, campus architecture, cultural history, database, decorative arts, film, garden, gender studies, Harvard, illustrations, images, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, manuscripts, modern, neigborhood, photography, planning, postcards, science, textiles, theaters, transportation, urbanism, VIA, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 16, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
The Yale University Art Gallery’s eCatalogue allows internet users to search its collection of over 185,000 objects. Organized into ten curatorial areas, these objects range from African ritual figures and masks to American ceramics, Asian lacquerwar, and modern and contemporary sculpture and painting. Yale’s eCatalogue is an excellent resource for material culture incorporating traditional gallery arts as well as objects of industrial culture.
Tags: architecture, art history, cultural history, cultural objects, database, decorative arts, images, industrial design, interior design, search tools, Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Over 3,000 new images of architecture, applied design, and American popular culture are available in ARTstor. Collections shared by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Slide Library and Bryn Mawr College include images of site plans for ancient and medieval architectural and archeological sites along with images of American pop culture and design. Photographs of American architecture taken by Dov Friedman have also been added.
Tags: American architecture, ancient architecture, applied art, architectural history, architecture, art, art history, ARTstor, cultural history, Dov Friedman, images, medieval architecture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, photographs, photography, visual resources collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 13, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Sponsered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project that explores cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Seventeenth Century. Silk Road Seattle provides historical texts, well illustrated web pages on historic cities and architecture and on the traditional culture of Central Asian nomads, extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic atlas, and a virtual art exhibit drawing on museum collections from around the world.
Tags: architecture, art, art history, Central Asia, cultural history, industrial design, maps, photography, resources, silk road, Silk Road Seattle, trade, University of Washington, urban history, virtual exhibit, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Web resources
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 10, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, captured images of everyday Russian life, leaving a visual record of peasant, proletariat, and imperial culture. This includes images of Russia’s iconic architecture, the status of transportation before 1917, and the diverse ethnic cosmology of empire. The Empire That Was Russia is a searchable database making these photographs available for academic and private consumption. Here, Prokudin-Gorskii’s black and white and sepia toned images have been converted into color through the digichromatography color rendering process resulting in a richer visual experience of the last days of the Russian Empire.
Tags: architectural history, art history, cultural history, digichromatography, photographic processes, photography, Russia, sociology
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 8, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Reed College Artists’ Book website is an online reference guide to artists‘ books and the significant role they have played among the avant-garde of Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the United States, from the turn of the last century to the present. The Reed College collection holds approximately 1,000 books including the most significant 20th century and contemporary artists’ books, among them livre d’artiste, avant-garde, conceptual, and contemporary works. Individual web pages for sixteen of the most significant book works contain a gallery of images to navigate the entire work, a brief biography on the artist, a description of the book and the books colophon.
Tags: art, art history, avant-garde, book history, conceptual art, Contemporary Art, cultural history, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, modern, modernism, visual resource collections
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 4, 2009 in art, images | No Comments »
The California State University IMAGE Project has assembled almost 75,000 images for into its WorldImages database (formerly known as WorldArt). Organized into portfolios, the database includes a wide range of content from around the globe including images of cities and building technology, religious and cultural art and artifacts, architecture, material culture, and more. In addition WorldImages hosts a few special collections including faculty contributions, special exhibits and the Sourisseau Academy Clark B. Waterhouse Collection.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, California State University, cultural history, culture, image collection, images, sociology, technology, urban design, urbanism, visual culture, visual resource collections, WorldImages
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 3, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
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