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Project Director:
Prof.Roberto Severino
Georgetown University

Co-director:
Prof.Luigi De Luca
Italian Cultural Society of Washington,DC

Co-director:
Prof. Lucia Dalla Montà
Director Education Office
Embassy of Italy

   
"The Art of Teaching Italian Through Italian Art,
in Rome, Italy"
 2011 NEH Summer Institute - Rome, Italy: June 27-July 22
 Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Useful Links

Rome and Vatican City

Museums in Rome and Vatican City Official websites.

Virtual Online Tour of the Vatican Museums

Vatican City Art

Sistine Chapel

Borghese Gallery, Barberini Gallery, Corsini Gallery, Spada Gallery.

Galleria Borghese - works of Bernini and other Italian artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Part of the "Thais" Presentation.

Doria Pamphilj's Gallery in Rome - contains works by Lippi, Parentino, Titian, Raphael, Parmigianino, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Carracci, and more.

Raphael - pictures of his work and commentary about his art.

Michelangelo - Pictures and information about his art.

Florence


Museums in Florence- Official Website

Galleria degli Uffizi - founded in 1581, by the De Medici family, one of the first museums in Italy.

"Virtual Uffizi" - "The Complete Catalogue" - Museum Rooms Index.

The Florence Art Guide - Introduction to all places of interest in Florence.

Museums in Florence - Includes the history, art & culture, links to virtual tours and more from AboutFlorence.com

Brancacci Chapel- Closeups of the "Cappella Brancacci"

Patrons and Artists in Late 15th-Century Florence - at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Buildings and Structures of Florence - from Wikipedia.

Ghirlandaio

Botticelli

Leonardo da Vinci

Other


Virtual Venice - A Tour of the architecture of Venice.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Modern art. An outpost of the Guggenheim Museum.

The Virtual Museum of Pisa

National Gallery of Art - Italian Painting 15th century - showcasing pieces from Siena, Florence, and Venice.

Manuscript Illumination in Italy 1400 to 1600 A.D. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Italian Collection - at the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California.

THAIS: 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture - Italian sculpture organized by period, artist and city.

Italian Renaissance Art - through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University.

Renaissance Art In Italy - Art History resources on the web by Chris Witcombe.

A list of Museums in Italy...and much more - compiled by Italian Stay.

Art Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus at the Getty Research Institute

Dizionario dell'arte Glossario- at artemotore - glossary in alphabetical order, in Italian.

Dizionario dell'arte Glossario- at sullarte.it - glossary of terms and artists, in alphabetical order, in Italian.

ARTLEX Art Dictionary - More than just a dictionary - terms are illustrated with visual examples, in English.

ARTCYCLOPEDIA - An art enclyclopedia, in English.

At Yahoo! education - General Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Thesaurus, World Fact Book.

Content Based Language Instruction


Content-based instruction in second language acquisition - From WikipediA.

The role of grammar in communicative language teaching - by Dr. Diane Musumeci.

Content-Based Second Language Instruction: What is it? Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), U. of Minnesota.

Select References on Content-Based Instruction and Related Topics - compiled by Fredricka L. Stoller, Northern Arizona University.

An Overview of Content-Based Language Instruction, by Marani, John S. - Document in PDF, available from the Education Resources Information Center.

Language in Content Instruction - a manual in PDF published by the European Commission.


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