Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:51:55 -0500
Subject: [SCA-AE] links: Medici, Islamic Art, Russian Museum, Da Vinci, Byzantium,
Women Composers, etc...
Hello All! look, Flip! Plain vanilla text! So I'm sorry there's no hotlinks.
You'll all have to cut and paste the addresses--it was the simplest way for
me, with this broken finger, to get the links to you without excessive alterations.
Not everyone can use hotlinks, so it'll have to be one or the other.
I'm feeling rather eclectic this week, so our selections reflect my mood: Byzantium
in the year 1200, 1200 years of Italian Sculpture, The Web Gallery of Art, Fonetiks
(speak a language like a native), Islamic Arts and architecture, Early Music
by Women composers, Islamic Tiles, Artist's views of World History, an overview
of the Renaissance, The Tower of London, the Medici Archive, State Hermitage
Museum of Russia, 5,000 years of Greek Jewelry, Beadwork, The Abacus, Leonardo
Da Vinci's machines, and an overview of the End of Europe's Middle Ages
Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order? -
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/resources.html
This attractive site describes aspects of the European Renaissance including
its origins in the Middle Ages, the rise of navigation and trade, development
of the printing press, arts, and the Renaissance in Florence Italy. From Annenberg/CPB
Projects Learner Online site.
Subjects: Renaissance | Middle ages -- History
NM's Creative Impulse: The Artist's view of World History and Western Civilization
- http://history.evansville.net/
This is a good annotated and rated directory of Internet resources for the study
of history. The sections include: Prehistory, Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China,
Greece, Rome, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Exploration, Baroque, Age of
Enlightenment, Revolutions, Age of Industry, and Modern. Maintained by Nancy
B. Mautz, a high school history teacher.
Subject: History
Early Islamic Tiles - http://www.anthonyslayter-ralph.com/
An exhibit of over 100 ceramic tiles collected by Lockwood de Forest II, a partner
of Louis Comfort Tiffany, in the Middle East during 1875-82. The viewer can
enlarge the thumbnails of the tile and obtain information on the original location,
age, composition, and condition of the work. Notes on the collector, his travels,
and his work are also available.
Subject: Tiles, Islamic
1200 years of Italian Sculpture -
http://www.thais.it/scultura/default_uk.htm
This collection that includes Italy's finest sculptural works from medieval
through modern times is a visual treat. The site can be explored several ways
including artist name; individual page listings by period (Romanesque and Early
Middle Ages, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern); and by the cities where
the sculpture is located (mostly Italian, but several representative cities
worldwide). In English and Italian.
Subject: Sculpture, Italian
Byzantium 1200 - http://byzantium1200.org/
This site is a project that is creating computer models of Byzantine
monuments that no longer exist. Each model includes a description and image
of palaces, aqueducts, arches, columns, and other built objects originally located
in Istanbul, Turkey and dating from 1200 A.D.
Subjects: Istanbul (Turkey) -- Buildings, structures, etc | Architecture,
Byzantine
Early Music Women Composers Webring -
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/webring.html
This is a tour through the archives on early women music composers of the International
Alliance on Women in Music, starting with ancient and Byzantine times and going
up to 1800. "Articles on women in early music are accompanied by parallel fine
art illustrations, often by early women artists, along with CD recommendations,
song texts, and MIDI soundfiles." Searchable.
Subjects: Women composers | Music
Islamic Arts & Architecture Organization - http://islamicart.com/
This searchable site provides historical and cultural information on Arabic
calligraphy, architecture including the Taj Mahal, coins, Oriental rugs, and
highlights of the history of "early Arab-Islamic as well as Islamic dynasties
and ruling parties." There are also an international listing of museums with
Islamic and Arabic exhibits, a FAQ, and a listing of related TV programs.
Subjects: Art, Islamic | Architecture, Islamic
Fonetiks.org: The Online Language Laboratory -
http://www.fonetiks.org/
This "archive of human speech sounds" is a resource for people learning a language
who want to really sound like a native speaker. There are audio clips demonstrating
sounds in French (and French
Canadian), Spanish, German (and Swiss German), Italian, Brazilian Portuguese,
Japanese (Romanji), Indonesian, and Thai. Students of English can hear the accents
of American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh speakers.
Created by: dfs
Web Gallery of Art - http://gallery.euroweb.hu/
This resource is "a searchable database of European painting and sculpture of
the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing
over 6,500 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available."
End of Europe's Middle Ages: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -
http://www.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/endmiddle/
This multimedia tutorial provides "a brief overview of the conditions at the
end of Europe's Middle Ages, the tutorial is presented in a series of chapters
that summarize the economic, political, religious and intellectual environment
of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." Sections include: Economy, Feudal
Institutions , New Monarchies, Holy Roman Empire, Italy's City-States, Eastern
Europe, Ottoman Empire, The Church, Literature, Visual Arts, and Music. Produced
by The Applied History Research Group at the University of Calgary.
Subjects: Middle ages -- History | Renaissance
Leonardo, da Vinci - 1452-1519 -
http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/
This site presents a collection of close to forty models and drawings of machines
designed by the artist, as well as three architectural models. Includes important
events in Leonardo's life; background on his manuscripts, with links to where
they are housed; and related links.
Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Knowledge -- Engineering | Inventions
-- History -- Exhibitions | People
The Abacus: the Art of Calculating with Beads -
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/
This site is an excellent introduction to the abacus. There is information on
the construction, history, and use of the abacus (including detailed instructions
on performing addition and subtraction functions), as well as comparisons of
abacuses from different cultures. Users with Java-enabled browsers can play
with an interactive abacus that indicates the value of each column as one manipulates
the beads by clicking the mouse.
Subject: Abacus
Beadwork - http://beadwork.about.com/
This About.com site has annotated links to such topics as collecting,
making, and buying beads and using them in fiber arts; the business aspects
of beadmaking; color/art theory; beadwork groups; prayer, power, and spirituality
beads; and a section on research and history of beads. There are also descriptions
of so many patterns that patterns has its own set of topics that include looms,
kits, and stringing. The tutorials section has directions for various projects
suitable for beginners through advanced beaders. How-tos for basic stitches
(such as brick and peyote) and advanced stiches are also available.
Subject: Beads
Greek Jewelry: 5,000 Years of Tradition - http://www.addgr.com/jewel/elka/
A history of Greek jewelry beginning with the prehistoric Aegean through to
the present day. Emphasis is on gold items. Many images are included.
Subject: Jewelry -- Greece
State Hermitage Museum - http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/
Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, the State Museum of Russia is a great
treasure house and now it's online. Take a virtual tour, check to see if your
favorite artwork will be displayed before you plan a trip, read about the various
departments and curators, learn the Hermitage's history, read descriptions of
the various collections, and look at magnificent art. The Digital Collection,
searchable 'using visual tools', includes: Painting, Prints and Drawings; Sculpture;
Jewelry; Machinery and Mechanisms; Arms and Armour; Furniture and Carriages;
Ceramics and Porcelain; Applied Arts; Numismatics and Glyptics; Costume; Archaeological
Artifacts; and Textiles.
Searchable.
Subjects: Museums -- Russia -- St. Petersburg | Art museums -- Russia -- St.
Petersburg
Medici Archive - http://www.medici.org/
Established by Grand Duke Cosimo I in 1569, the archive consists of nearly 3
million letters that offer a "panorama of two-hundred years of human history,
as told in the words of the people most immediately involved." This developing,
searchable project currently contains 2,600 pages of sample document reports.
Areas are: Arts & Humanities, including antiquities, arms, art, books, ceramics,
coins, drawings, animals, food, fortification, furniture, sports, gardens, glassware,
jewels, maps, medicine, music, theater, timepieces, and more; Jewish History
(religion and culture); and the history of Costume and Textiles. Documents in
Italian, with English translations.
Subjects: History, Modern -- 17th century | History, Modern -- 18th century
| Jews -- History
The Tower of London - http://www.tower-of-london.com/
A virtual tour of this most famous (and infamous) fortress in London. Queen
Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn, William Wallace, Sir Thomas More, and many others
spent much time here. From its origins as royal palace to its legendary use
as a royal dungeon, this site offers QuickTime panoramas, spy and ghost stories,
games, Crown Jewel information, guard interviews, and amusing things that the
guards overhear everyday on the grounds from tourists. See also the official
site.
Subjects: Tower of London (London, England) | Great Britain -- History