The past seen from the sky: Aerial photography and heritage
Several large portals allow us to familiarize ourselves with images of the ground as seen from the sky. These beautiful collections show how air photography has been used for several decades to provide a record of landscape that is continuously changing, to detect vestiges of archaeological sites invisible to the naked eye and as a management tool for the territory.
Design in Europe
A “cult” book written in 1936 by the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner identified William Morris and his Arts and Crafts Company, which was devoted to conceiving and producing artistic factory-made objects and textiles, as the first pioneer of industrial design.
Sacred landscapes, digital collections
Europe has a vast wealth of ancient ritual landscapes, from Britain’s world heritage site Stonehenge in Wiltshire to the standing stones at Carnac in France and the rock art of the Camonica Valley in Italy.
While some of these iconic monuments are familiar to most of us, some may be less obvious – just look at a walkers’ map and you will spot dozens of tumuli or burial sites, dotted across the countryside. These days, many of these places can be explored digitally on Michael .
