New: a virtual reconstruction of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, from the Plan of Rome site at the University of Caen.

Bill Thayer's article on the Roman Basilica (from his excellent and exhaustive LacusCurtius site) provides extensive background on the basilica as an architectural form and accounts for its appeal as a model for Christian churches.

Nova's recent film about Building the Great Cathedrals is now available online.

Digital Archive of Architecture: pages on Romanesque and Gothic.

Great Buildings Online includes a page on Romanesque architecture with many more examples than I gave.

Romanesque architecture in England
A brief history of the Romanesque, or Norman, period of English architecture, covering the period 1066-1180.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History devotes a special topics page to Romanesque Art

Here's another page from the Met timeline on Relics and Reliquaries in Medieval Christianity.

The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland is an "evolving electronic archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture." Since I spend little time on sculpture in the lecture, this would be a good place to enjoy what the British Isles had to offer after the Norman Conquest. The Chevron Gallery provides a thorough description of column design styles, and the Search the Corpus page lists sites where the sculptures can be seen, along with maps and particular features (such as columns, doorways, etc.).

If you can handle Italian, here's a page on Italian Romanesque sculpture.

This page on Romanesque Europe contains a number of images and multiple views of each building listed, along with maps and plans. This page seems to be down more than it's up, but keep trying.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) has a whole section on Medieval art, including pages on French and Spanish Romanesque--among others, including Islamic Art & Architecture. The thumbnails lead to larger color images and brief descriptions.

Romanesque and Gothic Architecture Plans from Rice University's Humanities Electronic Studio Project. Use these to compare floor plans of churches and cathedrals. The main course page site is at HART 205: Gothic and Romanesque Architecture.

Elizabeth Peterson's very nice page on Gothic Cathedrals and other significant Medieval sites. Not all the images are very good, but several cathedrals are included, with maps, etc.

The Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture should be helpful if you're having trouble coming up with concise definitions of terms, or you missed something in the lecture.

Here's a page on Gargoyle History and Etymology to answer questions on why they're there and what they do. I found this on Princeton Online's links page on the Middle Ages, where there's more information on myriad topics. Not all links work, and some are cheesy, but there are some gems in here.

Don't miss the Met's Special Topics page on Gothic Art (part of the Timeline of Art History). See also the page on Medieval European Sculpture for Buildings.

History of Gothic Architecture is a Japanese page (in English) with brief descriptions of various Gothic churches (click on the thumbnails).

Earthlore's pages on Gothic Dreams is packed with information and examples--as well as glossaries, etc. I'm skeptical of some of the other content on the main site, but this seems pretty solid, and it's well illustrated.

Great Buildings Online's page on Gothic architecture. This can be confusing because it includes Gothic Revival (like the Brooklyn Bridge), so pay attention to the dates.

The University of Pittsburgh's Images of Medieval Art and Architecture includes a substantial number of images of both Romanesque and Gothic structures, as well as associated works (stained glass, sculpture, etc.). There's also a glossary. This site is so good that it's linked on the Met's Gothic art pages.

The WorldImages Kiosk at San Jose State University has a collection of images that includes Gothic architecture. The link is to French Gothic, but go to Medieval: 5th-15th Centuries in the main collections section to see other images and periods.

For typophiles, here's a page on Romanesque and Beneventan scripts (hand letterforms) from manuscript leaves. The home page is European Illustrated Books and Manuscripts c. 1400-1700--and contains many more examples of medieval scripts.

If you're interested in the relationship between Medieval Gothic and modern notions of Gothic, check this site out: A Gothic Overview: Architecture, Garden Design, & Much More by Robert Viau of Georgia College and State University.

"The Nature of Gothic: Excerpts from The Stones of Venice" by John Ruskin, an influential Victorian art critic and historian. His views on the Gothic inspired the Gothic Revival in nineteenth-century Britain, and his observations are part of any serious artist's intellectual vocabulary.

The full text of Ruskin's "Nature of Gothic" from The Stones of Venice. This is one of the foundational texts of the Arts and Crafts movement, which we'll study next quarter. But it's relevant to this course because Ruskin, perhaps more than any other writer, "gets" the spirit of Gothic architecture. He also provides some real insight into Italian Gothic, especially as it is expressed in Venice.

St. Mark's Basilica

Another page, with links to sculpture (the Labors of the Months) and a paining of a scene from the life of St. Mark.

A photochrome image of St. Mark's taken from the 1890s to the early 1900s, from the U. S. Historical Archive.

Canaletto's Piazza San Marco--looking Southeast (1735-40)

Applied Art History: a new section devoted to websites that reflect the uses to which art history can be put (especially in relation to our programs and degrees).

As promised, the Amiens Cathedral Project from Columbia University.The site includes photographs and computer reconstructions of various parts of the Cathedral.

Here's something kind of weird and wonderful: a collection of miniature versions of several buildings we've studied this quarter from Gene Gill Minatures.