ARH 921: Norman Imagery

FAL web page: www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/

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nave, portal, vault/vaulting, facade, transept
tomb, gisant, saint, monastery, cathedral, Benedictine, abbey
Sicily, France/French, gothic, gothic, Norman

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Avery Index - Indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture.

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KEYWORD monreale
KEYWORD cathedral

(BHA) Bibliography of the History of Art - Indexes and abstracts periodicals, catalogs, essays, and more; subjects include all aspects of the visual arts, architecture, and design in the post-Classical western world.

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KEYWORD scotland

AND KEYWORD gothic

Art Index

Art Index is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. In addition to articles, Art Index indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

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	KEYWORD mozarabic

(IMB) International Medieval Bibliography - Covers Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.

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IMB-English

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Place england
Century 12

Index of Christian Art - Records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400.

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KEYWORD saint margaret

JStor

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals in areas such as anthropology, asian studies, ecology, economics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, sociology, and statistics. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.

E-Images

ArtStor

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Grove Art Online

Article Search: Paris

Web Sites

Images of Medieval Art and Architecture (http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/index.html)

NetSerf (http://www.netserf.org/)

Ministere Culture Communications (http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat)

The Labyrinth (http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html)

Les Normands (http://www.norman-world.com/)

ORB (http://the-orb.net)

Durham Cathedral (http://www.durhamcathedral.co.uk/)

Westminster Abbey (http://www.castles-abbeys.co.uk/Westminster-Abbey.html)

Contact the Librarian: Lucie Stylianopoulos | 924.6604 | lws4n@virginia.edu

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