History

Arts, Architecture, History, Periods and Styles - Early Islamic Tiles. An on-line exhibition of 14th-17th century decorative tiles collected in 1880-86 by Lockwood de Forest.

The Arts Centre is a unique complex which promotes the growth of Arts and Crafts in Christchurch, New Zealand. Offering a weekend art and craft market, online shopping, galleries, resident artists, education, venue hire, theatres and cinema and regular vibrant outdoor entertainment.

Arts, Architecture, History, Periods and Styles - European Route of Brick Gothic. Project aiming to survey medieval buildings in brick in cities around the Baltic Sea and promote a thematic tourist route.

Travel the Middle Ages on the Web.

Arts, Architecture, History, Periods and Styles - Art Deco Napier. Napier, New Zealand, was rebuilt in the early 1930s after an earthquake and has a wealth of Art Deco buildings, some with Maori motifs.

Arts, Architecture, History, Periods and Styles - Art Deco Society of Los Angeles. Aims to save historic Art Deco structures throughout the world.

Arts, Architecture, History, Periods and Styles - Art Deco Society Inc.. A non-profit organisation promoting the preservation Art Deco in Victoria and Tasmania.

Arts, Architecture, History, Periods and Styles - Art Deco Society of Washington. Supports the preservation of Art Deco architecture.

Arts, Architecture, History, Periods and Styles - Osgoode Hall. An illustrated history of this grand Classical building in Toronto, designed in 1860 and the focus for legal activity in Ontario.

British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles is dedicated to securing the return of the Parthenon Marbles (also called the Elgin Marbles) to the new Acropolis Museum in Athens Greece

Arts, Architecture, History, Periods and Styles - The Colosseum. Comprehensive coverage by Andrea and Daniele Pepe and Catherine McElwee of the history and architecture of greatest amphitheatre of antiquity, built by the Flavian emperors in the first century AD.

This site includes pictures and descriptions of ancient Roman ruins found in Rome and Ostia. Pictures are of the roman forum, pompeii, herculaneum, colosseum, circus maximus, pantheon, arch of Titus, arch of septimius severus, Trajan's column, Trajan's marketplace, arch of constantine and more