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Humanities: Year Ten - History of Aesthetics

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Databases

The Pre-Raphaelites - The Met Museum

The Pre-Raphaelites - British Library

Pre-Raphaelite - TATE Museum

A Beginner's Guide to the Pre-Raphaelites

Research Strategies - State Library of Victoria

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Books in the d'Houet Library

The Renaissance and the Enlightenment

-most books, but not all, can be found at 709 and 940

  • History of Beauty by Umberto Eco R.C. 707.17 HIS
  • Encyclopedia of the Renaissance by Paul Grendler 940.2103 ENC
  • A world history of art by Hugh Honour 709 HON

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

  • Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley 759.05 HAW
  • The art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Steven Adams 759.05 ADA

History.com

Enter search terms Renaissance, Enlightenment, pre Rapaelite Brotherhood.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - The Met

The Enlightenment and Artistic Styles

The Renaissance

Art History Resources

The Enlightenment - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment- The Getty Museum

Timeline - Palladio and English-American Palladianism

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