"The Visual Media Center at Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology has taken a lead role in developing QTVR documents of world architecture. Through a recent agreement, Columbia will work with ARTstor to distribute several hundred of these documents for educational and scholarly use as part of the ARTstor Digital Library. QTVR enables faculty and students to complement traditional side-by-side image comparisons with a mode of representation based on space and context. The VMC has documented monuments and sites including such antique sites as the Pantheon and Domus Aurea in Rome (Nero’s “Golden House”), Early Christian and Byzantine sites such as Galla Placidia, the Orthodox Baptistry, Sant’Apollinare in Classe, San Vitale in Ravenna and Hosios Lukas in Greece; Islamic sites including the Hagia Sophia; Medieval cathedrals from Amiens to York; numerous Renaissance and Baroque architectural monuments; and important 19th and 20th century sites including the Paris Opera, Le Corbusier’s Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, Rem Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library, and many others. At the same time, ARTstor is pleased to be sponsoring an upcoming Columbia QTVR campaign in Venice, Italy, which will produce panoramas of a range of historically significant sites from various eras in the city’s storied history. This project will be conducted under the aegis of the Columbia University Center for Study in Venice at Casa Muraro."