Mary Prevo Department of Fine Arts Courses and Research Aids South aisle, nave, Laon, France. (Prevo, photo)

Fall 2008

• Fine Arts 105 - Introduction to the Visual Arts
• Fine Arts 110 - History of Western Art I (fulfills Fine Arts Humanities requirement, required for the Fine Arts major)
• Western Culture 101 - Beginnings to 900 C.E.

Spring 2009

• Fine Arts 111 - History of Western Art II  (fulfills Fine Arts Humanities requirement, required for the Fine Arts Major)
• Fine Arts 206 - Western Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Western Culture 101 - Beginnings to 900 C.E.

General Research and Study Aids

• Hampden-Sydney College Library
• Art History Resources in Hampden-Sydney College Library
• Art History Research Paper Style Sheet
• Museums in the Neighborhood
• The Acropolis and Parthenon, Athens (Prepared for the H-SC Core Humanities course)
• Cultural Heritage and Patrimony (Prepared for FA220, Spring 2002)
• Christian Iconography site, created by Richard Stracke, emeritus professor of English, Augusta State University. 

 Art History Research  and Gateway Sites

• Art History Resources on the Web (Sweet Briar College)
• The Art History Research Center
• Art History with Michelli, Art History Web Browser
• Gateway to Art History - Gardner's Art Through the Ages
• The Mother of All Art History Links (Univ of Michigan)

Art Image Sites and Search Engines

• Timeline for the History of Art (MMA)
• Art Images for College Teaching
• Harpy Database for Ancient Greek Art
• Web Gallery of Art (European Renaissance - 18th Century)
• Artchive (Mark Harden)
• Artifice Great Buildings Collection
• AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium)
• Digital Imaging Project (Architecture & Sculpture)
• Carol Geerten Fine Arts, Index of Artists
• Webmuseum (Artist index page)
• Google Image Search

Courses taught

• Fine Arts 105 - Introduction to the Visual Arts
• Fine Arts 110 and 111 - History of Western Art I and II
• Fine Arts 206 - Western Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Fine Arts 304 - Topics in the Visual Arts - European Medieval Architecture
• Fine Arts 306 - Topics in Visual Arts - American Domestic Architecture
• Fine Arts 420 - Critical Issues in the Arts
• Western Culture 101 - Beginnings to 900 CE

Thoughts and Notes of Interest

• Why go to a liberal arts college?
• Study abroad - see the world before you graduate while you still have time.
• Museum Security Network - problems of theft and vandalism
• Careers in the Visual Arts
• More Careers in the Visual Arts

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