Art Critiques

Original Essays

by JOHNES RUTA (New Haven, CT):

A Critique of [Im] Pure Criticism:
An Outline of legitimate Criteria for Art Criticism

An Humanities Timeline Bibliography

by CARL  PFLUGER  (Quebec, Canada):

Views and Visions of Thomas Cole




Art Links

The Sublime: philosophical selections by Longinus
Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, & Wordsworth


Edmund Burke (1729-1797) : A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin
of Our Ideas of The Sublime and Beautiful
(Bartleby.com - complete text)

A Fine Art Printmaking Glossary - Silent Partners Consulting, Inc.
http://www.silentpc.com/printglossary.html

The Web Gallery contains over 8,500 digital reproductions of European paintings
and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800.

http://gallery.euroweb.hu/index.html

Northern Renaissance Art Web
http://www.msu.edu/~cloudsar/nrweb.htm

Galleria degli UFFIZI
http://www.televisual.net/uffizi/

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

The Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

The Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/

Gallery Worldwide -contemporary art
Artwork in different styles and media, offering a wide
variety of features and services that enable customers
and artists to buy and sell art.
http://www.gallery-worldwide.com/

Pablo Picasso cubism history
Description: How and why Pablo Picasso created cubism. Comprehensive study of the art of Pablo Picasso.

Advanced Techniques and Materials of Music
(Dr. Gordon J. Callon)

http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/4103-13/4113.htm

A Guide for translating symbolism in Renaissance art:
Caesar Ripa (fl. England, 1600) -- "ICONOLOGIA or Moral Emblems
various images of virtues, vices, paffions, arts, Humours,
elements & celeftial bodies"

http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/Ripa/Images/ripatoc.htm

Caesar Ripa's  ICONOLOGIA transcribed by Rawn Clark on Adam McLean's Alchemy website.tp://www.levity.com/alchemy/iconolog.html


Line Art from Rare Manuscripts
http://www.prs.org/line.htm

 

William Blake  websites

The William Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/


Book Reviews

Contributed by JOSEPH  CAEZZA (Norwich, NY):
"THE VOICE OF THE EAGLE: the Heart of Celtic Christianity, John Scotus Eriugena's Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John,"  translated with introduction and reflections by Christopher Bamford;  Lindisfarne Books (2000) 335 p, $16.95

"THE HERMETIC MUSEUM: Alchemy and Mysticism" by Alexander Roob. Taschen Books, Hohenzollernring 53, D-50672 Kolin, (1997); 711 pp., $29.95

"DWELLINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS," by Fulcanelli; Archive Press, (1999); 530 pp. 38 plates; $150.00 hand crafted, leather bound, limited edition; $49.99 hardcover.

"ANTIMONY IN MEDICAL HISTORY,"  by R.Ian McCallum; Pentland Press, (1999); 125 pp. 22 illustrations, hardcover, 15 pounds sterling.