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/Home/Arts/Architecture/History Medieval general image home page Votes:0 Medieval general image home page Images of Medieval Art and Architecture MAPS Map of Medieval Commerce Shephard Pages 98-99 Map of Medieval Universities Shephard Page 102 Map of Medieval Industry Shephard Pages 102 GENERAL IMAGES The following motifs were often used by medieval artists: 1. Acanthus Plant 2. Acanthus leaf RETURN TO MAIN MENU Read More Go to Site Architect of the Capitol Votes:0 --> --> YOU ARE HERE>> Home November 20, 2007 --> Energy Conservation By practicing efficient energy management, we save taxpayer dollars, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and protect the environment and natural resources. The AOC has produced a brochure and a flyer that highlight simple energy saving tips that can help everyone conserve energy. + Saving Energy at the Nation's Capitol (PDF) + Energy Saving Tips (PDF) Architect of the Capitol (AOC) Revises Flag Policy Acting Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers, AIA, announced that he is issuing a new memo to affected Congressional offices changing the policy regarding messages included on the certificates that accompany flags that are flown over the U.S. Capitol. + Read More About AOC The Architect of the Capitol is responsible to the Read More Go to Site Architecture of Washington D.C. - front page Votes:0 visitors since Dec-1-96 take off first three digits for the true total! Update Number 2.2 A dissertation research site on how political power and democracy are expressed in the United States Capitol Dissertation Synopsis Questions on the US Capitol If you want to contact me to get the inside info on the trip before I post it up, then mail me at dan@inigo.net The BIG link Please go to Capitol at Inigo THE Study Why study Washington? Bibliography A useful list of sources Useful Links To many related sites Contact me! ? 1996-1999 Daniel Frydman - email dan@inigo.net Read More Go to Site Architronic homepage Votes:0 ISSN 1066-6516 Architronic is a scholarly refereed journal, exploring the new ranges of architectural communication available through digital media. It is a platform for both presenting and reviewing research as a journal, and a forum for stimulating dialogue on emerging ideas. --> V8n1 - Jan 1999 V7n1 - Aug 1998 V6n1 - Dec 1997 V5n3 - Dec 1996 V5n2 - Sep 1996 V5n1 - May 1996 V4n3 - Dec 1995 V4n2 - Sep 1995 V4n1 - May 1995 V3n3 - Dec 1994 V3n2 - Sep 1994 V3n1 - May 1994 V2n3 - Dec 1993 V2n2 - Sep 1993 V2n1 - May 1993 V1n1 - Dec 1992 Read More Go to Site BARNS, TIMBER FRAME, POST AND BEAM Votes:0 Antique Timber Frames 18th & 19th century post and beam Barns, houses, wagon sheds, etc. (barns pictured: Middlesex County, New Jersey) hollywoodnj@yahoo.com a.k.a. Michael F. Daciek Hello and welcome, I restored this 16'x14' timber frame shed in the foreground of the picture above. It is now being used as a summer cottage. I completely dismantled, repaired, cleaned, and re-erected it on a new foundation. Photos of other projects... I am interested in the preservation and restoration of early American architecture. I am primarily interested in 18th and 19th century timber frame structures. I live in the central New Jersey area and take regular forays into Pennsylvania. Please e-mail with your comments or inquires, or even a little advice. If you own or are planning to buy historic property Read More Go to Site Building Canada Votes:0 Building Canada A Selection of Images from the John Bland Collection of Canadian Architecture Version FranÇaise Text only During his tenure as educator and director of the McGill School of Architecture (1941-1972) Professor Emeritus John Bland assembled a unique collection of slides of buildings from across Canada. The collection became the basis for his course on the History of Architecture in Canada, the first course of its kind in Canada. The aim of the Building Canada project was to digitize a selection of these images so that more people could see examples of Canada's architectural history. The title of the project, Building Canada , is referential to both the structures that are depicted and how the built environment of Canada is reflective of the country's builders, past, present an Read More Go to Site Chicago Architecture Foundation - 312.922.3432 Votes:0 Winners Announced Self-guided audio tours French, German, Japanese and Spanish 2007 Study Trips Corporate Partners Crain's Interactive Skyline Tour Employment Opportunities ©2005 Chicago Architecture Foundation | 224 South Michigan Avenue | Chicago, IL | 60604 | 312.922.3432 Read More Go to Site Dead Romans Votes:0 Dead Romans Dead Romans has moved to a new location. If your browser does not automatically redirect you in a few seconds, click home.nyc.rr.com/deadromans to go to the new page. Don't forget to bookmark the new site when you get there! Read More Go to Site Devizes Castle on the Web Votes:0 Devizes Castle Home Page Welcome to the Devizes Castle Web Site Devizes Castle in Wiltshire, England stands on the site of a mediaeval 11th century wooden castle. After the destruction of the wooden castle in 1113, it was rapidly rebuilt in stone by the Viceroy Bishop Roger who spent "great and incalculable sums on it". This stone castle was destroyed in 1645 when Oliver Cromwell's army bombarded the castle using a battery of guns in the nearby Market Square. At the start of the 18th century, two windmills were erected on the site, grinding at different times rape seed for oil and tobacco snuff. During the early 19th century, the South windmill was demolished to clear the site for the present South Tower. Then in the 1860s the building was expanded as far as the North windmill which was in Read More Go to Site Exhibits Collection -- Renaissance Votes:0 A { text-decoration:underline; color:#336699; } A:hover { color:#669900; text-decoration:underline;} Professional Development Courses and Workshops Designed to strengthen the professional credentials of educators at all levels. .drop { font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color : #000000; } .drop2 {color : #ffffff; background-color : #f7941d;} .drop3 {color : #ffffff; background-color : #cc0000;} .drop4 {color : #ffffff; background-color : #a67c52;} .drop5 {color : #ffffff; background-color : #6c9232;} .drop6 {color : #ffffff; background-color : #714daf;} Choose One Interactives Home Math Interactives -Geometry 3D Shapes -Math in Daily Life -Metric Conversions -Statistics Language Interactives -Elements of a Story -Historical and Cultural -Literature -Spell Read More Go to Site Federal Hill Houses-Page 1 Votes:0 Images of Federal Hill Lynchburg, Virginia (page 1) Click "RELOAD" if any of the images do not come up. Click on the house to load a larger image Sidney F. Miller House French Second Empire built 1878 architect R.C. Burkholder. John W. Carroll had this house built for his daughter and her family. It is noteworthy that the original deed read that the house returned to his estate when she no longer needed it. This house is the mirror image of the house Carroll had built for his son William at 1020 Harrison. Morris D. Binkley House Colonial Revival built 1906. Binkley was proprietor of Binkley?s Cut Rate Drug Store. This Queen Anne was built in 1899 for Walter M. Carroll as rental property. The house was in the Carroll family until 1944. This Colonial Revival was built in 1908. Like 1105, thi Read More Go to Site Gustav Stickley - Craftsman - Arts & Crafts Furniture Designer Votes:0 Articles Events Marketplace Bookstore Forum Home > Articles > Gustav Stickley Gustav Stickley Master craftsman, furniture designer, architect, and publisher Gustav Stickley was born March 9, 1858 in Osceola, Wisconsin and died April 21, 1942 in Syracuse, New York. First trained as a stone mason, Stickley preferred to work in wood and dreamed of building fine tables and chairs. He learned furniture making at his uncle's chair factory in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. Traveling to Europe in 1896, he met notable Arts and Crafts designers. The following year he returned to the United States and founded the United Crafts of Eastwood, New York. In 1904, he founded the Craftsman Workshops. The furniture he designed and made was mostly of native American oak. It was of a sturdy-plain design in contrast Read More Go to Site HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE EUROPE 1700-1709 Votes:0 THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL THEORIA , PRAXIS AND POIESIS IN EUROPE 1700 - 1709 Introduction p&aring svenska - in english Articles - Lectures - Bibliography 1700 1701 1702 1703 Papal States Rome Porto di Ripetta (destroyed under the 1930s). Arch.: Alessandro Specchi (1668-1729). Plan and view , engraving. View #1 (photograph from 1865). View #2 (photograph from 1865). The Tiber River (photograph from 1865). Passeggiata di Ripetta (photograph from 1865). United Kingdom London Buckingham Palace Commissioner: the Duke of Buckingham (completed by John Nash after 1820 in King George IV 's reign end by Edward Blore after 1847 in Queen Victoria 's reign). Entrance faÇade FaÇade, fragment Interior France Champs , near Paris Chateau de Champs Arch.: Jean Baptisle Bullet de Chamblain (1665-17 Read More Go to Site Key West Audubon House and Gardens, Weddings, Tour, Shop, Audubon Prints, Group Tours - key west florida Votes:0 About the Audubon House Our Tropical Gardens Audubon Gallery of Fine Art Check Out Our Store Group Tours Art Classes in the Garden Garden Weddings & Events Audubon House & Tropical Gardens 205 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040 305-294-2116 Toll Free: 1-877-294-2470 audubonhouse@audubonhouse.org The Audubon House is a non-profit, educational foundation. Click here to make a tax-deductible charitable donation. Read More Go to Site Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb Votes:0 Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb Peter Bacon Hales Art History Department University of Illinois at Chicago An Early Family Poses in Front of their 1948 Cape Cod "An early Luau"-- block party in Levittown, ca. 1951. Photo courtesy Charles Tekula, Jr. Levittown has long represented the paradigmatic postwar American suburb. Yet very little in the way of good critical work has been done on the history and significance of this American cultural icon. Over the past decade I have been assembling materials to provide an ongoing cultural history of Levittown and, through its story, to offer a more nuanced and sympathetic picture of American suburban life in the Cold War era. Part of a larger project, Outside the Gates: Cultural Landscapes from the Material to the Virtual Read More Go to Site LouisBarfe.com - pour l'homme de Waveney Votes:0 Welcome to my online world. I've been on and around the Internest since it was in short trousers (1994, if you were wondering), so I've seen quite a bit. Most of it emanates from pornstars (all of whom seem to know me on a first name basis) and strange, yet equally This way for old cinema buildings A book about the record industry, you say? Hackery Drums, etc. Diary Listen to Radio Lowestoft - the big Waveney sound Links to friends and other obsessions familiar people in Nigeria who apparently want to give me money. For the last 6 years or so, I've been scratching a living in the armpit of popular culture* as a journalist, writing for the likes of Publishing News (where I did 4 years on the staff, and met many people, some very dear, some less so), The Oldie , the New Statesman and Crescen Read More Go to Site Maulbronn Monastery - World Heritage in Baden-Wurttemberg Votes:0 World Heritage in Baden-WÜrttemberg U NESCO has inscribed 582 places in the world to the World Heritage List . One of these places you find in Baden-WÜrttemberg (Germany): Maulbronn Monastery - 850 years old World Cultural Heritage since 1993 "Founded in 1147, the Cistercian Maulbronn Monastery is considered the most complete and best-preserved medieval monastery complex north of the Alps. Surrounded by fortified walls, the main buildings were constructed between the 12th and 14th centuries. The monastery's church, built in the transitional Romanesque-Gothic style, had significant influence on the spread of Gothic architecture over much of northern and central Europe. The water management system at Maulbronn, with its elaborate network of drains, irrigation canals and reservoirs, is except Read More Go to Site MIT MUSEUM HOME Votes:0 MIT MUSEUM HOME SEARCH MUSEUM SHOP HOURS & ADMISSIONS SITEMAP Announcements Join the fun for the 10th Anniversary of the Friday After Thanksgiving chain link event-extravaganza. Come early to be assured of a seat! Holiday Kick-off! December 6: Museum store open 8:30 p.m - 9:00 p.m. Discounts, refreshments, movies Dec. 6-9 The 2nd Annual Cambridge Science Festival is underway! Get involved with this "only in Cambridge" interactive festival that runs from April 26 - May 4. Call for Entries Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery opened Sept. 29; now open daily 10-5 p.m. Free Sundays 10a.m.- noon MIT Professor Jerry Milgram: An Exceptional Ocean Engineer opens in Compton Gallery August 31 . Exhibition explores Milgram's outstanding contributions to yacht and sail design, pollution control, Read More Go to Site National Trust for Historic Preservation Votes:0 The National Trust for Historic Preservation Skip to Content Skip to Navigation The National Trust provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to save America’s diverse historic places and revitalize our communities. 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Over the Mississippi’s waters, from near and far, came prized pearls, copper, and mica. Today, most of the moundbuilders’ legacy is gone. Many of their earthworks have been plowed, pilfered, eroded, and built over. Yet evidence of the culture remains. This website is part of an effort to preserve the legacy that survives along the banks of the lower Mississippi. life along the river the moundbuilders traders and travelers delta voices the context timeline credits see our other features >> DOI | History & Culture Read More Go to Site Over 4600 Images of Art and Architecture. Votes:0 Over 4600 Images of Art and Architecture. Records in this index are the first record on each display page. There are 9 records on each display page. Dutch, Thorn Prikker: Johan, 1892, Bride Egypt, , 18th Dyn. (c.1355 BC), Altarpiece: Tell el-Amarna: Amenophis IV (later Akhnaton) & Nefertiti with 3 Princesses Egypt, , 689-664 BC, King Taharqa in front of a ram Egypt, , 1320-1200 BC, Dier El Medineh: Tomb of Sennedjem: Sennedjem & his wife working in the fields Egypt, , 1417-1379 BC, Egypt:Thebes: the Colossi of Memnon: view from southeast Egypt, , c.1960 BC, Standard bearer of King Seosostris I with the Crown of Upper Egypt Egypt, , c.2600 BC, Prince Rahotep and His consort Princess Nofret Egypt, , 2650 BC (circa), Prince Rahotep Egypt, , 3rd Dyn., Zoser Tomb area: Temple Saqqara Egypt, , 1 Read More Go to Site Period and Style for Designers Votes:0 Period and Style for Designers PERIOD AND STYLE FOR DESIGNERS Theatre 653 and 654, Professor Lester The text and images for these courses are now only available to students of Tulane University. Read More Go to Site Period and Style for Designers Votes:0 Period and Style for Designers PERIOD AND STYLE FOR DESIGNERS Theatre 653 and 654, Professor Lester The text and images for these courses are now only available to students of Tulane University. Read More Go to Site Perseus Art & Archaeology Votes:0 Perseus · Tufts Collections: Classics · Papyri · Renaissance · London · California · Upper Midwest · Tufts History Configure display · Help · Tools · Copyright · FAQ · Publications · Collaborations · Support Perseus Art and Archaeology e-mail us problems and comments | copyright statement Look through a massive library of art objects, sites, and buildings. The library's catalogs document 523 coins, 1548 vases, over 1400 sculptures, 179 sites and 381 buildings. Each catalog entry has a description of the object and its context; most have images. This web site currently publishes over 33,000 pictures! Descriptions and images have been produced in collaboration with many museums, institutions and scholars. Catalog information and keywords have been taken from standard sources, which are cited Read More Go to Site PERSPECTIVES: Architecture Film and Video Votes:0 Perspectives produces high quality videos on architecture and design that are broadcast on public television and made available to schools, libraries and the general public. It also creates specialized videos and products for tourism planning, development firms, historic preservation agencies, cultural institutions and communities. Take this month's Virtual Tour of some of Chicago's landmark architectual treasures. Learn more about Perspectives' award winning series of videos about Chicago's legendary architecture Find out more about other Perspectives architecture- related products . Check out our feature Building of the Month . Head out into the Web and explore out favorite links to the city of Chicago and the world of architecture. Contact us . The Newsletter Need a Video? Check out our Read More Go to Site Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102 Votes:0 Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102 The images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History. They are organized according to his course syllabus. Each section includes images relating to that particular topic as well as images which are included as comparative material, and are included to reinforce particular points which Mr. Westfall makes in his bi-weekly lectures. These images are provided for the personal use of students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use or publication of them is strictly prohibited. Italy in the 15th Century--Introduction Flor Read More Go to Site Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102 Votes:0 Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102 Italy in the 15th Century--Introduction Leon Battista Alberti, Sant'Andrea, Mantua; 1472-1494; detail of transept facade Leon Battista Alberti, Sant'Andrea, Mantua; 1472-1494; detail of front facade D. Bramante, Sta. Maria presso S. Satiro, Milan; 1482-1494;oblique view of east facade D. Bramante, Sta. Maria presso S. Satiro, Milan; 1482-1494;view from north corner D. Bramante, Sta. Maria presso S. Satiro, Milan; 1482-1494; dome with lantern D. Bramante, Sta. Maria presso S. Satiro, Milan; 1482-1494; base of apse D. Bramante, Sta. Maria presso S. Satiro, Milan; 1482-1494; door D. Bramante, Sta. Maria presso S. Satiro, Milan; 1482-1494; det. east facade above door Michelozzo, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence; 1430; cortile Mic Read More Go to Site Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation, Newport Rhode Island Votes:0 RoseIslandLighthouse.org Read More Go to Site SAH :: Society of Architectural Historians Votes:0 --> Search Home About SAH Advertising Career Center Chapters & Affiliates Charnley-Persky House Fellowships & Grants Image Exchange Listserv Meetings Membership Preservation Publication Awards Publications Resources Student Resources Study Tours Support Site Map Contact Us Mission SAH Board SAH Committees SAH Staff Annual Meeting JSAH Newsletter Website Chapters Affiliates Annual Meeting International SAH at CAA MacDougall Award Kostof Award Johnson Award Hitchcock Award Founders Award Downing Award BUS JSAH Newsletter Mission SAH Board SAH Committees SAH Staff Annual Meeting JSAH Newsletter Website Chapters Affiliates Annual Meeting International SAH at CAA MacDougall Award Kostof Award Johnson Award Hitchcock Award Founders Award Downing Award BUS JSAH Newsletter The Society of Architect Read More Go to Site Salem Massachusetts - Salem Architecture 17th & 18th Centuries: Overview Votes:0 Home About Salem Calendar Community Message Board Salem Tales Welcome to S alem, M assachusetts The City Guide Find: only in salemweb.com Salem Architecture Sitemap Salem Architecture 17th & 18th Centuries 19th & 20th Centuries Overview First Period Georgian Colonial Federal Architecture in the 17 th and 18 th Centuries A glimpse of Salem's exceptional architectural heritage is presented below. Most of these houses have furnished period interiors and are open to the public. Photo: Daniel Goodwin The Capt. John Turner House 1668 The House of the Seven Gables (open for tours) 54 Turner Street One of the early traders and merchants in Salem, Captain John Turner owned a number of ships and made his fortune in the Barbados trade. He built his house, later to become famous as the House of the Se Read More Go to Site THE CHRISTIAN CATACOMBS OF ROME Votes:0 Italian Spanish German French Portuguese Polish Dutch Swedish Croatian Korean Chinese Japanese Last updated December 21, 2005 WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO PLAN YOUR VISIT... Practical Advices A SUMMARY OF WHAT THE SITE HAS TO OFFER... Overall view PART I : THE STANDARD SITE © Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra A GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE CATACOMBS THE CATACOMBS OF SAINT CALLIXTUS A FIRST GLANCE A DETAILED DESCRIPTION THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE CATACOMBS THE CHRISTIANS OF THE PERSECUTIONS LETTERS BETWEEN ROME AND CARTHAGE THE LITANIES OF THE MARTYRS OF ST. CALLIXTUS THE POPE'S SPEECHES CONCERNING THE CATACOMBS PART 2: FINDING OUT MORE A COLLECTION OF STUDIES A BIBLIOGRAPHY Vat Number: 00956981005 Notice on the copyright You are visitor number since January 1, 1997. E-Mail Read More Go to Site The City Beautiful Movement Votes:0 The 1890s and early years of the twentieth century were a turning point in American society. The economic system struggled to define itself and Americans through the language of consumption; social unrest and violence, results of economic depressions, disgust with corruption in government, and overcrowded urban centers erupted periodically throughout the era; and the agrarian way of life, so familiar and fundamental to American thought and self-image, was passing away into a nostalgic past. Historian Harold Faulkner observes that Americans witnessed the passing of the frontier and the rise of the United States to a position of world power and responsibility which was to make any return to her old isolation increasingly difficult, if not impossible. Old issues were dead or dying; sectional Read More Go to Site UVa School of Architecture | Faculty Votes:0 The School Academics Admissions Faculty Students Alumni Courses Calendar Resources Works Home > Faculty New Faculty Ethan Carr Landscape historian Ethan Carr is joining the faculty as associate professor of landscape architecture in Fall 2007. Carr is a nationally recognized landscape architecture historian and preservationist specializing in the public landscape of the United States. He has redefined the scholarship on American national parks and modern landscape design through his two books, “Wilderness by Design” (1998, University of Nebraska Press), which won an American Society of Landscape Architects honor award, and “Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma” (2007 Library of American Landscape History with University of Massachusetts Press). He Read More Go to Site Virtual tour to historical Paris Bridges and Fountains (France). Votes:0 (C) 1998-2001, Paris by the Water Read More Go to Site Welcome to Schloss Reichenstein Votes:0 We wish to welcome you to this fantastic journey into the dark, mysterious and, sometimes, romantic history of one of the Rhine River Castle's. Like the castle itself, improvements are always being made. We visited this castle in September, 1993. From the photos, brochures, and notes that my wife and collected in our one day and one night stay at the castle, I have compiled this little "virtual" tour guide in the hopes that you may wish to visit the castle someday. By today's standards the quality of our stay would be rated very high and the cost very affordable. The food, as it is anywhere in the country, is phenomenal. The stay was very interesting, being that in the late evening hours we were the only occupants in the entire castle grounds. No caretakers, staff or management. Read More Go to Site

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