LINKS
 

Recommended Reading from the web

The Anatomy of Sacred Art: Parts I and II  By: Anthony Visco
- As the Old Testament begins with the Creation of the cosmos and the New Testament with the Incarnation of Christ, the Judeo-Christian world is reminded how the act of making becomes central to our faith. [More]

Distinguishing the Essential from the Accidental  By: D. Jeffrey Mims
- It must be said that each one of the arts has suffered during this past century of cultural experimentation, but none has taken a hit quite like the visual arts... [More]

José de Hermosilla y Sandoval and the origin of the Spanish Academy  By: Victor Deupi
- Since the mid-sixteenth century, when Serlio and Palladio declared Bramante "the first who brought good, and beautiful architecture to light, which from the time of the ancients had been hid."... [More]

The Eyes of Leonardo ~ The New York Review of Books  By: Ingrid Rowland
- A review of the book "Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman".

Architecture & Ideology: ~ The New Criterion  By: Roger Kimball
- This is a must-read for anyone who feels confounded by contemporary architecture. The author reintroduces an important book, 'The Architecture of Humanism' by Geoffrey Scott with some unexpected help from Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier.

Modernism and the Perfect ~ The Metropolis Mag  By: Natalia Ilyin
- Idealizing the cool, the killer, the cutting-edge, the author argues, denies an essential piece of our souls.


Events

TITIAN ~ At the National Gallery London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/0,8542,868290,00.html


References

Alberti Photogrammatic Drawings
http://www.bath.ac.uk/casa/alberti/index.html

FORMA URBIS ROMAE, Rodolfo Lanciani
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/waters/forma_urbis.html

Painted Humanism and Secret Renaissance
http://msimonetta.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2002s/ital233/01/gallery.htm

The Italian Renaissance
http://history.hanover.edu/early/italren.htm


Rome and Renaissance scholarly sites:

a lively, fascinating Medici archive project
http://www.medici.org./

Italian and Dante studies
http://www.italnet.nd.edu/

Lectures at the American Academy in Rome
http://www.aarome.org/events.htm

Events at the British School in Rome
http://www.bsr.ac.uk/events.html

Bibliotecha Hertziana, the German Academy in Rome
http://www.biblh ertz.it

Census of Ancient Art Known to the Renaissance
http://www.arthist ory.hu-berlin.de/census/pegasus.html

Antiquities
http://www.aiac.org/links.htm

Humanist themes:

Mythology:
http://www.getty.e du/art/collections/subjects/s38.html

Artists & Architects

Bernini
http://www.boglewood.com/cornaro/xbernini.html

Reference Sites for Researchers

Studying the Renaissance with the Open University
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/renaissance2/index.html

Art Images for College Teaching & Research

The Web Gallery of Art
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/welcome.html
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/index.html

http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/index.html

http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/renbrq.html

Art History Resources

Georgio Vasari: The Lives of Artists
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/vaspref.htm
http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=9930783&m=0&p=0

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html#general

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/italren/renart/


Rome Images

Images of Rome  By: Kalervo Koskimies
- A neat collection from all areas of Rome.


More for fun

Roman Holiday: City Scenes
- A simple appreciation of Rome for what it is by an enthused tourist