Category Archives: Resources

Resources: Studying and Teaching The Mediterranean

The new website Studying and Teaching the Mediterranean is dedicated to things Mediterranean during the better part of the region’s history, the pre-modern period: roughly from the beginning of recorded history in Antiquity to the advent of modernity in the age of the Enlightenment.

Resources: Collection of the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin now published online

The Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin now provides access to more than 11.000 objects online on its website. This is a fundamental milestone in the accessibility of the museum collection and would not have been possible without the generosity of Yousef Jameel, Hon. LHD, a private supporter of the arts, education, and research. YousefContinue reading “Resources: Collection of the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin now published online”

Resources: British Library Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks

We have been hard at work here at the British Library and we are excited to share with you a brand new list of Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks. You can currently view on Digitised Manuscripts no less than 1,943 manuscripts and documents made in Europe before 1600, with more being added all the time. For a full list of what is currently available, please see this PDF Download Digitised MSS January 2018.

Resources: The Oeuvre of Jan van Eyck

Discover the oeuvre of Jan van Eyck online! The benchmark website closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be has been expanded with macro photos and scientific imagery of 20 works by Jan Van Eyck and his workshop from 11 renowned European museums. The zoom function invites you to enjoy and study the high resolution images in microscopic magnification and the split-screen function allows to compare different types of images of Van Eyck’s oeuvre, including the Ghent Altarpiece.

Resource: Bibliothèque virtuelle du Mont-Saint-Michel

Accès : ici Le site de la Bibliothèque virtuelle du Mont Saint-Michel permet d’accéder aux notices descriptives et aux fac-similés de livres, manuscrits ou imprimés, qui peuvent être identifiés comme ayant appartenu, à un moment de leur histoire, à l’abbaye du Mont Saint-Michel.

Announcement: Society for the Study of the Church Interior

What is the study of the church interior? The church was a highly meaningful site for pre-Modern European society. As architectural sites accessible to all strata of society, church buildings provided contexts for interaction between social classes and genders, and settings for a wide variety of religious and non-religious activities. From an art-historical perspective, theContinue reading “Announcement: Society for the Study of the Church Interior”

Resource: Academic Illustrating Services

A drawing is more persuasive than a thousand words: even a simple reconstruction will strengthen your ideas and make them tangible. The illustrating service I offer is addressed to academics, researchers, museums, cultural institutions and publishers, mostly in archaeology and art-related subjects, but also in any other field which requires drawings.

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Medieval Art Research needs new bloggers for the next 12 months – why not help out?! It’s a great way to find out what’s going on, find out where to find out what’s going on, promote events of interest to you, try your hand at writing, and raise your own profile (bloggers get to postContinue reading “Help contribute to this blog!”

New Website: Walters Ex Libris (Walters Art Museum Manuscripts)

New Website: Walters Ex Libris (Walters Art Museum Manuscripts) online at manuscripts.thewalters.org. Featuring a user-friendly design, the site provides visitors with intuitive search options, including the ability to refine their search by date, geography, subject, culture, and more. It also gives users a chance to coordinate their own online collections by gathering, saving and sharingContinue reading “New Website: Walters Ex Libris (Walters Art Museum Manuscripts)”