Weblinks: Art

History of monumental brasses. Other pages on the site discuss clothing and armour depicted on brass monuments. Site sells equipment for brass rubbing.

Internet Archive copy of "A history of ancient sculpture" by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883).
 
Deals with Eygptian, Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern sculpture.
 
 

The aim of this book is to give, as far as possible, a straight-forward account of the costume to be found represented on that large class of sepulchral memorials known as Monumental Brasses.
 
This is a link to the Internet Archive's collection in PDF, Text, and Kindle formats.
 
 

The aim of this site is to aid research into British medieval architecture, especially Late-Medieval carpentry.

The Andre Chastell Centre is dedicated to French art history, including sculpture, architecture, and stained glass.

This website provides access to a comprehensive collection of images and detailed descriptions of Chartres Cathedral.

Founded in 1979 to promote the appreciation, study and conservation of church monuments both in the UK and abroad.

The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) is a project to identify, record and publish in a consistent format, the earliest English sculpture dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries.

An archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture. Romanesque sculpture marks a high point of artistic production in Britain and Ireland, corresponding to the boom in high-quality building that followed the Norman Conquest in 1066, and reflecting a new set of links with mainland Europe.

The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) is the international research project dedicated to recording medieval stained glass. Site contains an archive of more than 23,000 images, dissertations and documents, and also publishes the vidimus journal.
 

The purpose of this site is to promote education and research in Medieval art and architecture.

Established in 1980, the International Stained-Glass Centre promotes the study and conservation of stained glass.
 

Catalogue and description of Medieval wall paintings found in English Parish Churches.
 

The Society for those interested in any aspect of monumental brasses and incised slabs of all dates in all countries.

Designed for use in the classroom, these online features and printable files (PDFs) help educators introduce to their students the richness and diversity of works in various collections of the Metropolitan Museum. Publications include a variety of illustrations and descriptions of selected works of art, historical and cultural background, classroom applications in the form of lesson plans and activities, and other useful material.

 
Material consists of large illustrated pdf files on Greek, Egyptian, Chinese, Medieval, Rennaisance, Islamic, African, Asian, and Byzantine art.
 

The Stained Glass Museum at Ely Cathedral offers a unique insight into the fascinating story of stained glass, an art-form that has been practised in Britain for at least thirteen hundred years.

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention defines the kind of natural or cultural sites which can be considered for inscription on the World Heritage List.
 
The World Heritage List includes 911 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
 
World Heritage Locations that are featured on this site are:

• Notre-Dame d'Amiens
• Notre-Dame de Chartres

Stained Glass Register and News, the e-zine for hobby and professional artists of the UK.

Online magazine devoted to medieval stained glass. Contains news, features, and description of a featured panel of medieval glass.