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Landscape

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Document Garden cities and suburbs

An introduction to one of the iconic movements in 20th century housing

20th century, achitecture, Landscape view
Document Why set a portrait in a landscape or a landscape in a portrait? a comparative analysis of the functions of landscape in Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr. and Mrs. Andrews (c 1750) and Cornelia Parker’s Landscape with Gun and Tree (2010) by Nicola Catterall

Consideration of the 2010 sculpture that clearly references the 1750 painting, selecting and exaggerating just a few of the painting’s elements,...

Gainsborough, Sculpture, Landscape view
Link Oxfordshire History Gateway

A guide and reference source for researchers and potential researchers into Oxfordshire’s history, archaeology, landscape and buildings. It aims...

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Use of historical sources, Landscape, Buildings, History view
Link Map of Roman Italy c. 100 CE

Map of Rome, Italy and surrounding area around 100 CE. This map shows Rome on the River Tiberis, the present shoreline of the Tiber delta,...

Classical, Roman, Landscape, Italy, Historical Maps view
Link Britain from above – arial photographs, 1919-1953

Aerofilms collection of over 16,000 aerial photographs taken between 1919 and 1953, fully searchable by keyword. Many photographs are annotated....

Aerial photography, Photography, Historical geography, Urban & metropolitan history, Landscape, History view
Link Introduction to Prehistory in Britain

This course covers the period from the end of the last ice age (c.9500 BCE) to the British Iron Age. It begins with an introduction to Archaeology...

Prehistory, Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Landscape, sites, artefacts, Britain, Europe view
Link Modern Greek Painters: Konstantinos Volanakis "On the Jetty"

Improve your Greek by talking about some of the most important paintings in the Greek world. Discover new aspects of modern Greek art and culture...

Modern Greek, Greek culture, Greek art, Greek language, Culture, Painting, Fine arts, People, Social life, Travel, Landscape, Konstantinos Volanakis view
Link English Place Names

An authoritative guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns, villages, farms and fields from the University of Nottingham...

Place names, Landscape, Anglo saxon, Roman, History view
Link Map of Roman Britain c. 400 CE

A rough map of Britain near the end of the period of Roman control, circa 400 CE Place names and terrain features are given with their Roman names...

Roman, Britain, Roman Britain, sites, Landscape, Historical Maps view
Link Oxoniensia on-line

The annual journal of the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society (OAHS), first published in 1936. One of the foremost archaeological,...

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Built environment, Buildings, Landscape, Topography, History view
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