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HuntFor Art History  - Visual Arts Paradise

artsiteguide.com

ArteLinkado (in Spanish)

Lita Annenberg Hazen and Joseph H. Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources 

ArtSource 

The Art History Network

Mother of All Art History Links Pages - with sections devoted to:

Art History Resources on the Internet 

Art History Resources 

Art on the Web 

Yale Library Selected Internet Resources: Art History

CODART list of museums - with significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art 

Local and Global Internet Resources for Art Historians and Art History Students 

Selected Art Resources on the World Wide Web 

Research aids - conferences, libraries, journals, and sources for buying books

Internet Resources for History of Art

Internet Resources in the Arts 

Art History Index

Art History

CLNet Art

Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library

Theatre

Connected Courseware - University Cybercourses by Patrick M. Finelli, University of South Florida, Tampa:
Theatre History
Performance Theory
Sound for the Stage
Caribbean Theatre
Introduction to Theatre

Institute of Historical Dance - Its aims are the research of historical dances.

Introduction to Theatre -  Online course.  Northern Virginia Community College

Jack Wolcott's Theatre History HomePage - Online resources for Theatre History 

 

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Ancient Theatre

 

Ancient/Classical History at Miningco.com - Links to resources dealing with all aspects of ancient world and cultures

Ancient Theatre at Malaspina Great Books - A selection of authors.

Ancient theatres at Georama - A presentation of the ancient Greek theatres.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review - Timely reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies.

Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage - This project offers links to various images of the ancient stage

Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today - An English-language publication about Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today.

DIOTIMA: Women and Gender in the Ancient World - An interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean.

ELAC Guide to Greek Theatre - A short history of Greek Theatre.

The History of Costume - Ancient Theatre - Plates from The History of Costume

The Classical Origins of Western Culture - The Core Studies 1 Study Guide.

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - The goal is to provide and organize texts for use in classroom situations.

The Internet Classics Archive - 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites.

MASC: Modern Actors Staging Classics - MASC is dedicated to the performance of Greek and Roman theatre on the modern stage.

Theatron - Directors: Prof. Richard Beacham, Rikki Holland, Jim Webster, Fabian Zimmermann. Projects: Theatre at Athens, Theatre at Messene, Roman Wall Paintings & Temporary Stages, Roman Permanent Theatres ; The Hellerau Festspielhaus ; Peruzzi & Serlio; Tudor Hall at Whitehall Palace Online Virtual Reality 

 

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Medieval Theatre

 

Hanly's Medieval Drama Home Page - List of resources

NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
list of resources provided by the Catholic University of America, Washington DC

Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - An academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars.

Perform - Medieval and Renaissance Performance Listserv Discussion Group 

 

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15th-18th Centuries

 

The Baroque Ring - List of sites - All sites in the Baroque Ring deal with baroque music, art, history, or literature

Center for Research in Early Theatre - Records of Early English Drama (REED)
REED is an international scholarly project that is establishing the broad context from which the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew
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The Development of Scenic Spectacle - devoted to the study of spectacle on the Renaissance and Baroque stage.

Elizabethan Costuming Page - A rich collection of resources on Elizabethan costume

Historical Dance - The Journal of the Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society

Jesuitentheater in Deutschland - by Christof Wolf. In German

Musica antica e Danza storica in Italia / Early Music and Historical Dance in Italy - Site of the Italian Association for Early Music and Historical Dances

Perform - Medieval and Renaissance Performance Listserv Discussion Group

Renaissance Dance - Archives of Rendance, a mailing list for discussion of Renaissance dance.

The World of London Theater--1660-1800 - A collaborative project produced by the students at the University of Florida 

 

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19th-20th Centuries

 

Actors of the Early American Theater - From a book entitled "Players of the Day",

The American Stage of To-Day - Text by William Winter - E.F. Collier & Sons, Publishers, 1910. Hypertext adaptation by ELAC Theatre

American Variety Stage Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 - A multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings.

City of London Theatre - The Royal City of London Theatre (1837-1868).

The 19th Century London Stage - This document resulted from the convergence of research interests in the 19th century British theatre.

The Circus, Theatre & Music Hall Families Page - by Paul Newman: Resources for research into Theatre, Circus, Romany, Gypsy, Showman & other itinerant families, primarily in G reat Britain. 

Snagged Links: On Modern Drama - Stetson University: browsing the web for useful internet resources on Modern and Contemporary World Drama (tists).

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*Art links provided by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College. 

For more research material visit his site.