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The BBC and the British Museum have selected 100 objects through which to present a History of the World.  It is a great concept, and the website has a flash timeline with which you can scroll yourself out of prehistory and into the present.  Each object has some text, a zoomable image, supplementary images, and a podcast.  I hope to incorporate some of this material when I next teach Caves to Cathedrals. Gardner’s Art through the Ages shares only three objects with the BBC/BM selection... Read Full Story

I have just returned from the annual meeting of the College Art Association, and on the plane trip there, I read an article in the Harvard Magazine on how “visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom.” Sadly, I am not at all surprised that the article makes no reference to the leadership of those in attendance at the conference. The skills of art history – namely, the analysis and interpretation of images – should place us at the vanguard of the new visual... Read Full Story

I have just returned from the annual meeting of the College Art Association, and on the plane trip there, I read an article in the Harvard Magazine on how “visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom.” Sadly, I am not at all surprised that the article makes no reference to the leadership [...] Read Full Story

I am absolutely amazed by the photographs of Gordon Plumb on Flickr of various stained glass windows in France and England.  And how generous for him to make them visible in such extremely high resolution! Read Full Story

A good set of broader views of the frescoes at the Monastery di Torba in Gornate Olona, in Lombardy. Read Full Story

Antiquité Tardive for Late Antique art in French collections Read Full Story

The Metropolitan Museum of Art which includes photos from ElissaCS, whose photostream is  amazing, including multiple sets of the Met and other museums, and of major sites in Europe and elsewhere.  In fact now that I have discovered it, I will probably search for works here first, and more broadly later. Read Full Story

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Parthenon Marbles & The Acropolis Museum Read Full Story

Brooklyn Museum of Art Highlights: Pompeii: Objects and Places Middle East: Ruins North Africa: Ruins Egyptian Lantern Slides – General Views & People Egyptian Lantern Slides – Places Rams & Sphinxes Read Full Story