Welcome to ArtServe:

Art & Architecture
mainly from the Mediterranean Basin
and Japan

I am grateful for permission to add to this site a copy of Prof James A. Harrell: Decorative Stones in the pre-Ottoman Islamic Buildings of Cairo, which users might wish to consult in combination with my images of Cairo;

4th August 2003: 6Gb of material from Tokyo added, including modern architecture, and various museums, including treasures from Horyuji and large amounts of ceramics and sculpture;

Trooping the Colour at the Royal Military College of Australia (Duntroon) is here;

11Gb of material from cairo were added to this server on 5th June; highlights include the great cemeteries, mosques such as that of sultan hasan, the coptic and islamic museums, and Pharaoh Tut's jewellery, masks and sarcophagi;

A new index page for islamic art & architecture was added on 5th June;

Try out the new presentations which use multiple zoomable hotspotted images;

Try out the panoramas, classified by country - large, small and zoomable (over 3Gb in all);

Try out panoramas from Syria and Cairo;

The indexing is being re-vamped and the hardware upgraded: some sections of this site may not work!

1. Countries: the majority of items appear (roughly "catalogued") in australia; austria; california; belgium; cambodia; croatia; denmark; egypt; england; finland; france; germany; greece; hong kong; hungary; india; indonesia; italy (but 16,000 images of Rome appear here); sicily; japan; korea; latvia; norway; portugal, russia; scotland; spain; switzerland; syria; thailand; turkey;

2. Subject categories (sometimes defective: more will eventually be added) from the above, and mostly from museums, include:
   1. arms & armour in england, france, germany,
   2. ceramics in england, france, germany,
   3. choirstalls in england, france, spain,
   4. churches in england, france, germany, portugal, spain, switzerland,
   5. clocks & watches in england, france,
   6. cloisters in england, france, germany, portugal, sicily, spain, switzerland,
   7. coins in england, france, portugal,
   8. enamels in england, france,
   9. funerary material in france, germany,
   10. glass (currently both stained and vessels) in england, france, germany,
   11. hoards antique in england, france, germany,
   12. ivories in england, france, germany, portugal,
   13. jewellery in england, france, germany,
   14. metalwork in england, france, germany, switzerland,
   15. mosaic in italy, sicily;
   16. museums in england, france, germany, portugal, sicily, spain,
   17. paintings in england, california, france, germany,
   18. sculpture in england, france, germany, portugal,
   19. textiles in england, france, germany, sicily,
   20. tombs in england, england, france, germany, italy, sicily, spain,
   21. treasuries from churches in england, france, germany, , ,

3. Surveys:
   1. Art History by artist, by country or by medium;
   2. Western Art and architecture by country, site or type;
   3. Mediterranean architecture (largely classical) by search, or alphabetically by site or by country;
   4. classical art & architecture,
   5. Italian Renaissance art;
   6. Italian renaissance architecture;
   7. All illustrations to the catalogue of The Great Exhibition (1851) by exhibitor, medium, and type;
   8. Town Planning in Italy;
   9. Antique Portraits;
   10. Maps for teaching;

4. Prints:
   1. prints by artist, by subject or by technique;
   2. Prints by or of William Blake, Brueghel, Flaxman, The Great Exhibition, Italian printmakers, CN Ledoux, ornament by type, artist or country, Piranesi, Samuel Prout, MA Raimondi, Reemakers; French prints, French 19thC cartoons; Italian prints; School of Fontainebleau; The Emperor Maxililian's triumphal arch;

5. Museums and galleries will be found throughout the Countries listings above;

6. Architecture:
   1. Buddhist:
      1. Japan;
   2. Classical & Christian:
      1. Mediterranean architecture (by search) or alphabetically by site or by country;
      2. Diocletian's "palace" at Split; and prints of the site by Robert Adam;
      3. authors: Desgodetz, Philibert de l'Orme, Serlio (1537-51), Schinkel, Stuart & Revett, and Cesariano's Vitruvius;
      4. sites: Baalbec, Didyma,
      5. A book on The Greek and Roman Cities of Western Turkey;
      6. Ebersolt's 1913 Les Eglises de Constantinople;
      7. Rebecca Chandler: The Venetian Arcadia: Andrea Palladio and the reinvention of the antique

   3. Islamic:
      1. Egypt: the Moslem architecture of Cairo;
      2. Prof James A. Harrell: Decorative Stones in the pre-Ottoman Islamic Buildings of Cairo
      3. Prisse d'Avennes' plates of architecture in Cairo (with a summary of his life here);
      4. Turkey: Ankara, Beyshehir, Bursa, Istanbul, Konya;

7. Sculpture:
   1. The Pergamon Altar:

8. Some of my books and papers:
   1. The Classical Tradition in Art;

9. Mediaeval materials: As well as in the countries listings above, see:
   1. A survey of manuscripts, and the Bamberg Apocalypse;
   2. Textiles: The Bayeux Tapestry;

10. Embellishments: typefaces, frames and culs-de-lampe,

11. Film: Riefenstahl's triumph of the will and olympiad;

12. Student projects completed in 1995 and 1996 on topics from Artemesia Gentileschi to kangaroos and wine;

13. Trial multimedia presentations: see separate menu;

14. Miscellaneous:
    1. fauna: and flora:
    2. Ashanti Gold Weights,
    3. Veteran and vintage cars (Canberra, April 2001);
    4. woodwork: at the Canberra School of Art;
    5. My poorly OCR'd version of sections of Vasari and Gibbon;
    6. First trials in anaglyphic stereo;
    7. stereo: kites in Canberra;