Links

Good sites relating to study, writing, and research

• Artsbus (good value trips to New York!)
  • Metropolitan Museum Special Exhibition: The Gates of Paradise
• Writing, computer, and study skills (available free at GMU!)
  • The Writing Center Free help
  • Learning Skills Development Free programs
• Computer training
  • STAR (computer courses)
  • DOIIIT (student resources)
• Research
  • Christopher Witcombe's site (links to a wide range of sources relating to art)
  • GMU Library
  • GMU Library databases (e.g. The Grove Dictionary of Art)
  • Florence Cathedral (dome and Opera del Duomo museum)
  • Saints on Line
  • Information on Myths and Legends, Saints, Personficiations (London, National Gallery)
  • Artlex visual arts dictionary (use this to look up terms about art processes or about subject matter)
  • Catholic Encyclopedia (use this to look up questions you might have about religious practices, theology, individuals)
• Metropolitan Museum, New York, Timeline of Art History
  • Commercial Exchange, Diplomacy, and Religious Difference between Venice and the Islamic world
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • Calendar of events (lectures/tours)
• on line tours of
• Artistic Exchange: Europe and the Islamic World
• 15th-Century Italian Painting
• Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Renaissance Manuscripts
• 14th-century Italian painting.
  • Byzantine painting
  • Painting in Siena

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Solomon and Sheba, c. 1425-52, Florence, Baptistery, East Doors (now Opera del Duomo).

The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece is the title of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, October 30, 2007–January 14, 2008