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In the Forbidden City
Excerpt from "An Anthology of Erotic Fiction by Italian Women."
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/132242.html
Top/Adult/Arts/Literature

The Giza Plateau Mapping Project
Research on the geology and topography of the Giza plateau, construction and function of the Sphinx, Great Pyramids, associated tombs and temples, and the Old Kingdom town in the vicinity.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html
Top/Arts/Architecture/Building_Types/Pyramids

Churches of Italy
Bill Thayer's tour: thumbnail images lead to pages or sites on churches in Rome, Milan, the Marche and Umbria.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Topics/churches/
Top/Arts/Architecture/Building_Types/Religious/Christian/History/Churches

LacusCurtius: Roman Fountains
Article from William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875), illustrated with three woodcuts.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Fons.html
Top/Arts/Architecture/Building_Types/Water_Houses

On Architecture
Text of the English-language translation of 1826 by Joseph Gwilt, as well as a French translation and the Latin text (Teubner 1899 edition), hosted by Bill Thayer in his Lacus Curtius site.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Vitruvius/
Top/Arts/Architecture/History/Architects/V/Vitruvius_Pollio,_Marcus/De_Architectura

A Gazetteer of the Roman World
This section of Bill Thayer's huge Lacus Curtius site provides many photographs of cities and monuments of the ancient Roman world, some with detailed commentary.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/
Top/Arts/Architecture/History/Periods_and_Styles/Classical/Roman

Roman Domestic Architecture: A Bibliography
This bibliography compiled by Joshua Brandt lists sources in German, Italian, French, and (primarily) English.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Architecture/_General/Bibliography/Joshua_Brandt**/
Top/Arts/Architecture/History/Periods_and_Styles/Classical/Roman

Encyclopaedia Romana
James Grout's collection of articles, plans and pictures of ancient Rome and its remains, with an extensive bibliography. Includes Vitruvius's comments on temple architecture.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/
Top/Arts/Architecture/History/Periods_and_Styles/Classical/Roman

The Last Supper
Very close details of the figure of Christ, the faces of Philip and John, and the hand of Thaddeus.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/504271.html
Top/Arts/Art_History/Artists/D/Da_Vinci,_Leonardo

Winterthur Portfolio
Publishes articles on the arts in America and the historical context within which they developed.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/WP/
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