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Links to Interesting Sites
Introduction: ...
On the following three pages you'll find a total of 140 links that will keep you well entertained and busy
for quite a while, we promise!
As you can well imagine, these pages will forever remain "Works in Progress".
We suggest that you visit them often to see what we have added, that you download and bookmark your "finds", and
that you pass them along to your family and friends! Oh, and by the way, ALL of the sites that you'll ever find here will be top
notch and, basically, NON-commercial in nature!
– Page One –
... Some 62, wonderful architecture, gardens & gardening,
fine-arts, history, and literature sites
A. Architecture:
01
American Architecture
– Interesting site on architectural styles
02
Architecture Links on the World Wide Web – Boston College
03
Architecture Magazine
04
Cyburbia - The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center
05
Historic Houses of Amsterdam, Holland
:
– A fantastic Amsterdam municipal website which might take you days, literally, fully to
explore! (Als U Nederlands spreekt, klik
hier
voor de meer uitgebreide Hollandse versie!) Enjoy!
06
Home, Gargantuan Home
– Brian Kane, Landscape Architect –Washington Post, Sunday, May 27, 2001;
Page B08
07
Monster Suburbs
– Molly Ivins, Columnist, The Austin-Fort Worth Star-Telegram 26 May 2001
08
The Great Buildings Collection
09
The International Real Estate Digest
– Directories of architects, realtors, contractors, suppliers, etc.
10
(The) Not So Big House
– An architectural site that is growing by leaps and bounds in popularity these days and
promotes home design principles that are fully in tune with ours!
11
The American Institute of Architects
12
The American Institute of Landscape Architects
13
The American Society of Interior Designers
(More to come)
B. Gardens & Gardening:
01
A History of Landscape Architecture
– A site consisting mostly of images
02
Foundation of the Castle Baroque Gardens
– Beautiful pictures and interesting text.
03
Garden and Forest – The Library of Congress has digitally reproduced all ten volumes
of this American Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, and Forestry, published between 1888 and 1897.
04
Gardens in Andalucia
– Gardens of Southern Spain including the Alhambra and Generalife gardens!
05
Horace Walpole's Essay On Modern Gardening
– Renaissance Gardens
06
Italian Renaissance Gardens
– A large site featuring eight Renaissance gardens – Professor F.W. Kent, Monash University
07
The Boboli Gardens
– Beautiful
08
The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance
– Fantastic site! Offers virtual tours of the "Villa d'Este", the "Villa Lante", and "The Sacred Grove of Bomarzo"
gardens. Will keep you enthralled for hours and hours!
09
Garden Visits & Travel Guide
10
The Gardens at Dumbarton Oaks
– Also, see our own "Virtual Tour"!
11
The GardenWeb Virtual Library of Gardening Links
12
USDA's Website on "Gardening"
13
The Garden Helper
– A virtual Garden Encyclopedia
(More to come!)
C. Fine Arts:
01
Art History Resources on the web
– Thousands of interesting links (For more, visit D. History -01 below) Unbelievable!
02
ARC-The Art Renewal Center
(New)
Another unbelievably rich site that features more than
1,700
artists and
16,000
screen-sized images, in addition to tons of news stories, features, articles, editorials, essays, technical
information, and links to other, affiliated websites, artists, and organizations. Like the one below, you will be coming back to this site
over and over again!
03
Carol F. Gerton Fine Arts Site
– Virtual Art Museum – Another huge and marvelous site that offers, what amounts to, a fully annotated, "Virtual Tour"
of the thousands upon thousands of pictures hanging in virtually every art museum of the world.
Enjoy!
04
Guggenheim Museum
05
The Louvre
– Paris Art Museum
06
Mark Harden's "Artchive"
07
Museums - Worldwide Index
08
Smithsonian Museum of American Art
09
The National Watch & Clock Museum
– Good place to go if you have too much time on your hands...
:-)
10
Vatican Museums (Musei Vatican)
– Art of the Vatican Museums
(More to come)
D. History:
01
Art History Resources
– Maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor, Art History, Sweet Briar College, VA– An enormous site offering thousands of links
to art sites ranging from the Paleolithic to the Modern era and covering every civilization and area of the world! – Going for
a Phd in "Fine Arts"?
02
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
- and -
03
Internet Medieval History Sourcebook
- and -
04
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
– Another huge series of sites created and maintained by Paul Halsall at Fordham U.
05
American Civil War Homepage
– Considered to be one of the best sites on the subject.
06
American Memory
– Historical Collection of documents, photos, and more from the Library of
Congress.
07
Presidents
– Biographies, speeches, highlights, cabinet members, and election results, from Internet Public Library.
08
US Historical Documents
09
The Development of Western Civilization, Rome
– A large, University of Evansville Indiana site.
(More to come)
E. Literature:
01
Bookwire
– A great website for book information; includes many reviews.
02
Fiction Index
– Great set of indexes and annotated booklists from the San Antonio Public Library.
03
Great Books
– Reading lists of classics for all ages from a highly respected national program.
04
New York Review of Books
– Selections from past 6 months.
05
Online Literary Criticism Collection
– Maintained by the Internet Public Library at the Univ. of Michigan Library School.
06
Oprah's Book Club
– List of books chosen for discussion by the talk show host.
07
Web Sites for Book Lovers
– Extraordinary collection of reviews, authors, awards, and more from Morton Grove Public Library. Helpful links to genre fiction:
romance, mysteries, science fiction, westerns.
08
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
09
Bible Gateway
– searchable Bible dictionary, concordance, and phrase-finder.
10
Dictionaries
11
Language Translator.
12
Merriam-Webster OnLine
(More to come)
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