This server offers access to around 16,000 images (NOT available elsewhere) - i.e. some 1.6Gb of data - all concerned in some way with the history of art and architecture. The contents are tabled below. Work is in progress on ways of storing, displaying and dispatching to users much higher-quality images than the 740x540 (approx) pixel images currently on offer. Please email me with comments or suggestions!
You may view a shortened version of the access statistics for this site. Current accesses run at some 30,000 per day.
| Introducing ImageServe | ||
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This new service, which is under development but which already includes 4,004 images, includes the following offerings (see the Home Page for a full description): (a) Tutorials on Art History; (b) Reference works for Art Historians; (c) Source images for Architectural History; (d) Images of Australian & European Art & Architecture, and of Australian Landscape, Fauna & Flora; and (f) help on graphics techniques | ||
| Web Projects by Students at the Australian National University | ||
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| My Database & Graphics in the Humanities unit offers students the chance to design and mount their own Web
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Click here to view their projects, which are on a range of topics from electoral systems and kangaroos to mediaeval philosophy and stone tools. |
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| THE MAIN MENU | ||
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| Imaging | Electronic Issue of Computers & the History of Art: Teaching, Images, Internet | CHArt |
| Classical Art | 431 images of classical art & architecture | Classical Art |
| Art Survey | 4,219 images: Beginnings of a survey of Western Art (eventually with a database interface) | Western Art |
| Megalithic! | 250 images of Prehistoric Ritual Monuments within the Britis h Isles | Megalithic! |
| Architecture | 2,552 images in an Architecture database: retrieves records with thumbnails | Architecture |
| Architecture | ditto: by type then site | with GIFs |
| Architecture | ditto: by country then site | with GIFs |
| Architecture | ditto: using a FORMS INTERFACE | Database Access |
| Architecture | ditto: supplement of 3,281 images | supplement |
| Pergamon | 135 images of The Pergamon Altar | The Pergamon Altar |
| Split Tutorial | 85 images of The Palace of Diocletian at Split | The "Palace" of Diocletian |
| Hong Kong | 78 images of contemporary architecture | Hong Kong |
| Classical Turkey | 82 images: Brief tour of some of the sites | Classical sites in Turkey |
| Book on Turkey | The Greek & Roman Cities of Western Turkey | 120,000 words on Turkey |
| Islam | 77 images of Islamic Architecture | Islamic architecture |
| Prints | 2,800 images of European prints by ARTIST | with or withoutGIFs |
| Prints | ditto, by SUBJECT | with GIFs |
| Prints | ditto, by TECHNIQUE | with GIFs |
| Prints | ditto, using a FORMS INTERFACE | database access; |
| Leni Riefenstahl | 21 images from her Olympiad (1936) | Olympiad |
| Leni Riefenstahl | 26 images from her Triumph of the Will (1934) | Triumph of the Will |
From here you may also visit Art & Museums, theWeb Museum, the EXPO Ticket Office, ROMARCH - a resource for the art and archaeology of ancient Italy and the provinces of Rome, the Archivio Magna Graecia, a site dealing with Egyptian Archaeology, a collection of architectural links on the Web, and Exploring Ancient World Cultures, an introduction to ancient cultures made out of existing internet resources.
You may wish to read about the technologies currently employed for capturing, processing and storing the images and the various datafiles, and about the associated drawbacks. These are currently being updated following the purchase of a Nikon digital camera (1.2mp images), and a Sony device which will offer 1.6mp images. These "giants" will soon be made available for testing via a Web client interface.
From here you may also access our Departmental Brochure.