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Useful Features of the
Students' Guide to Italian-Renaissance Architecture
| • | Picture rich, fully illustrated. The text is illustrated by thousands of pictures that the authors took, bought publishing rights to, or scanned from out-of-copyright sources. |
| • | Explanatory graphics added to pictures. Many pictures have been enhanced by color-coding, arrow-labels, and other graphic devices that explain the text and stimulate the user's interest. |
| • | Easy-to-read text format. The text is organized systematically and segmented into short bits that are labeled by subject. Popup outlines of topics and sub-topics give the viewer an overview of a screen's content and provide links to its main topics. |
| • | Self-referenced. Names, events, places, stylistic periods, and other potentially unfamiliar references are instantly identified by popups. This makes it possible for the user to begin anywhere and for the author to address a knowledgeable reader. |
| • | Categorical directories of pop-ups. Many popups that provide key illustrations or links to other screens are listed in "Reference" under a series of categories such as architects, Renaissance buildings, pre-Renaissance buildings, stylistic periods, glossary terms, artists, patron families, popes, cities, maps, and general background (politics, religion, and ideas). |
| • | Buildings discussed by both architect and type. The sixty-three screens devoted to individual Renaissance buildings are presented in conjunction with both individual architects and individual types of buildings. |
| • | Architectural background on earlier styles. A 33-screen section summarizes the aspects of Classical, Early-Christian, and Medieval architecture that influenced the architecture of the Renaissance. |
| • | Contextual material on patron families, popes, and cities. Screen sequences devoted to individual patron families, individual popes, and individual cities provide a broad social and cultural context to the development of architecture. |
| • | Cross-Referenced. Cross-references allow the user to access a chain of relevant information concerning a given topic without using the "Contents" or "Reference" for navigation. |
| • | Pictorial "Help" Screen. The "Help" screen provides a sample screen with labels explaining the program's buttons and features. |
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