Art & Archaeology Update

Images of Artworks in the Louvre
In March 1999 we released new pictures of art works from the Musée du Louvre, Paris, now available freely to all users of the Perseus WWW site. Over 2100 images illustrate Perseus catalog entries on 65 sculptures and 101 vases from the Louvre's important collections. The objects illustrated in these images--South Italian as well as Attic vases and a variety of sculptures made of terracotta, limestone, and marble--are found in the Art & Archaeology catalogs, which may be accessed from our home page or from the side bar on each page, by clicking on Art & Archaeology. The catalogs are fully interconnected with the Perseus digital library and objects may also be accessed through Perseus' search functions. In allowing Perseus Project visitors WWW access to images of their artworks, the Musée du Louvre now joins a growing number of museums: the Berlin Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard, the Universities of Mississippi and Pennsylvania, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Tampa Museum of Art, and the Toledo Museum of Art. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Drs. Alain Pasquier and Martine Denoyelle of the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities at the Louvre, for making these materials available.

Digitized Reference Works
We have released a digital version of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. This standard reference work, now out of print, includes articles on more than 5,000 Greco-Roman sites, and is now linked to 4400+ new photographs of Roman sites and the Perseus Atlas. In the coming months we expect also to release a digitized version of S.B. Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (completed and revised by Thomas Ashby, and commonly known as Platner-Ashby). This classic reference for the monuments and sites of Ancient Rome--an alphabetized list of thousands of Roman monuments--will be linked throughout the Perseus digital library.

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