Links to useful things pertaining to ARTH 344 Annibale Carracci, Vice (detail) from The Choice of Hercules

Good sites relating to 17th century art

• N.Y. Times Review of an exhibition at the Morgan Library in New York relating to disegno
• Annibale Carracci as a Draughtsman (essay by Diane de Grazia)
• Rome, 1593 (The Tempesta View of Rome)
• The Council of Trent
• St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
• Baroque Sculpture Photographs and enlargeable details of 17th-century sculpture
• History of Architecture Buildings, details, and identifying information
• Velazquez' Las Meninas. A classic essay by Kenneth Clark
• The Metropolitan Museum Timeline
  • Rome and Southern Italy, 1600-1800
  • France, 1600-1800
  • Iberian peninsula, 1600-1800
  • Annibale Carracci
  • Baroque Rome
  • Caravaggio and his Followers
  • The French Academy in Rome
  • Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • Nicolas Poussin
  • Velázquez
• The National Gallery of Art in Washington
  • Main page (click on Calendar and Programs and Events for lecture/tour info).
  • Valentin de Boulogne
  • 17th C. French painting
  • The emergence of new genres
• The Chateau de Versailles Lots of information on Louis XIV's palace with moving panoramas

Period Pieces (films that relate to 17th century Italy, France, and Spain)

Good sites relating to study, writing, and research

• Artsbus (good value trips to New York!)

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

• 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)
• 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)
• Information on Myths and Legends, Saints, Personficiations (London, National Gallery)
• The Material Renaissance Project (Sussex)
• Saints on Line