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Humanities - Architecture, Art, Art History, Cinema, Dance, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Theater
- Architecture- Emporis Buildings - International Database - Detailed information on architecture and tall buildings around the world.
- Architecture- Great Buildings Collection - Documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects/designers from around the world and across history, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links and more.
- Art - International Council of Museums - World Museum Community - Links by country to the museums of the world.
- Art- Art Newspaper - Focuses on the art world with news, opinion, and analysis of current events and controversies. Includes news about auctions, museums, conservation, and people
- Art- Artcyclopedia - A very large index of fine arts information on the Web. Includes museum-level artists from photography, media art, and folk art, as well as painting and sculpture. Widely considered one of the best sites on the Web.
- Art- Artlex - A dictionary of art and art criticism.
- Art History- Medieval Macabre - Images of medieval art depicting death and the plagues of Europe.
- Art History- Metropolitan Museum of Art - Includes over 3,500 works of art that can be searched by title, artist, themes, and cultures.
- Art History- National Gallery of Art - A well organized and beautiful site. Excellent tours of selected works are available, but the site is also searchable. There is extensive information and resources to explore.
- Art History- New York Carver - This site, run by an individual stone carver, provides links and information about such topics as medieval architecture, castles, gargoyles, cathedrals, art, and history. Fun and informative.
- Cinema- Internet Movie Database - An excellent resource for information on the details of movies: search by title, actors, directors, characters, etc. Includes plot summaries, biographical information, quotes and much more.
- Cinema- Movie Review Query Engine - Finds fulltext reviews to over 40,000 different movies. Includes links to other useful movie sites.
- Cinema- Robert McKee's Story Seminar - A compendium of sites concerned with various aspects of screenplay writing for film and television.
- Dance- Voice of Dance - A comprehensive site that links to most everything in the world of dance.
- Music- Choral Public Domain Library - This is the largest website devoted exclusively to free choral sheet music. There are over 6,000 scores searchable by title or composer. It also provides links to other music and choral sites.
- Music- Free Sheet Music Guide - This site allows the user to search in a variety of ways: by song title, composer, album, instrument or artist as well as general searches by genre. A descriptive review is given of each sheet music listing. Free sheet music, as well as music that can be purchased, is included in the searches.
- Music- Public Domain Music - Includes a primer on how to know if a particular song is in the public domain -- available for use in performance without permission or fees. A searchable song title list is included. Site is also a source of sheet music for purchase.
- Music- Symphony: An Interactive Guide - Explores the particular form of composition known as the symphony. Discusses the orchestra, forms, composers, and includes a library of classical music links.
- Music- The Muse's Muse - Provides discussion and information pertaining to the craft of songwriting.
- Music- Worldwide Internet Music Resources - A site listing from the Indiana University School of Music that attempts to provide a wide variety of music sites. Updated sporadically, but quite extensive.
- Philosophy- EpistemeLinks.com - Evaluates and lists sites about philosophers and philosophy.
- Religion - BBC Religions - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is the largest broadcasting organisation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people's lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain. This BBC site on religion provides a great overview of many of the world's religions.
- Religion - Digital Dead Sea Scrolls - The Israel Museum Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, allows users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible. Developed in partnership with Google, the new website gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history.
- Religion- Bible Gateway - Search by passage, verse, or keyword several versions of the Bible.
- Religion- Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Provides access to many writings addressing the Bible and the Christian faith. This site contains a wide variety of public domain electronic format Christian books including selected books in these additional formats -Digital facsimile editions, MP3 audio files,Palm Docbook editions, Microsoft Reader editions, ThML editions.
- Religion- Encyclopedia Mythica - This searchable website covers mythology, folklore, and religion from all around the world. Also included are: a Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses.
- Religion- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - A source of full-text tales with links to other collections.
- Religion- Greek Mythology Link - An extensively linked collection of information on the mythology of classical Greece. It contains articles, short definitions, images, maps, and character and story information
- Religion- Internet Sacred Text Archive - The site attempts to scan and display translations of the sacred texts of all the world's religions and cults.
- Religion- Religion and Spirituality - A section of the Open Directory project, the site is a directory of sites about religions from around the world, including Islam, Judaism, and Taoism to name a few.
- Religion- The Association of Religion Data Archives - Includes both American and international collections for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers. Features include national profiles, GIS maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Welcome to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). This site is designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.
- Theatre- Alice in Theaterland - Alice in Theaterland is an informational source for theatre and acting, with a variety of topics that include playwrights, plays, monologues, acting tips, actors, directors, theatres, casting & audition links.
- Theatre- Inter-Play - An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals. Despite being sometimes difficult to use, this Web site offers searches of a hefty database of plays in collections and periodicals.
- Theatre- Jack Wolcott's History of Theater on the Web - A list of links to sites pertaining to theater and the study of performing arts including film.