- Art
Theorists of the Italian Renaissance:
A collection of 14th- through 17th-century treatises on art and architecture,
structured around Vasari's Lives of the Artists and comprising over
80 of the earliest printed editions. Complete texts, illustrations, and notes
by editors and translators are included.
- Écrits
sur l'art de Diderot à Proust:
Mostly French writings on art, encompassing aesthetics, philosophy, art history,
and texts by painters and writers. The texts span a period of nearly two centuries,
beginning with Père André’s L’Essai sur le beau from 1741, six years
before the first salon, and ending with the last volume of Proust’s À la
recherche du temps perdu from 1927; from Editions Bibliopolis and the
ARTFL Project.
- Goethes Werkes auf CD-ROM: Call number: PT1891.C95 1995. CD-ROM
may be checked out or used in the library..
- Perseus Project Digital Library:
Database of visual and textual resources for the study of Archaic
and Classical Greece. Searchable catalogs of architecture, sites, coins, vases
and sculpture from selected museums include images and documentation. Perseus
is also available in CD-ROM format, accessible from a dedicated workstation
in the Classics Reading Room, JRL 470. CD-ROM contents
differ somewhat from the on-line database. On-line database has unrestricted
access.
- The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Digital Collection In 1540 Antonio Lafreri began publishing maps and other printed images depicting monuments and antiquities of ancient Rome. After the mid-1570s, collections of these prints came to be known as the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence." This site presents the Univeristy of Chicago's collection of 994 Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae engravings dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.