Web Resources
Select any of the modules shown below to begin. Each case provides unique, realistic, nuanced, and in-depth situations for students to reinforce and apply their expanding skills and knowledge in an active "learning-by-doing" format.
General
- smarthistory
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
- Web Gallery of Art
- Art Project by Google
Material and Techniques
Metmuseum: aquatint
Metmuseum: engraving
Metmuseum: etching
Metmuseum: lithography
smarthistory: painting, oil painting
Metmuseum: prints
smarthistory: prints, introduction to printmaking
smarthistory: sculpture, bronze
smarthistory: sculpture, marble
Metmuseum: sketches
Metmuseum: watercolor
Metmuseum: woodcut
Museum History
Chapter 1: A Time of Transition
Metmuseum: French Academy in Rome
Chapter 2: Classical Influences and Radical Transformations
Getty: Society of the Dilettanti
smarthistory: David, Oath of the Horatii
Chapter 3: Re-Presenting Contemporary History
smarthistory: David, Death of Marat
smarthistory: Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
smarthistory.com: Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
Chapter 4: Romanticism
smarthistory: Goya, Third of May
smarthistory: Goya, Saturn Devouring His Children
Chapter 5: Shifting Focus: Art and the Natural World
smarthistory: Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway
Chapter 6: Colonialism, Imperialism, Orientalism
smarthistory: Ingres, Grande Odalisque
Chapter 7: New Audiences, New Approaches
Metmuseum: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
smarthistory: Millais, Ophelia
Chapter 8: Photography as Fact and Fine Art
Metmuseum: French photography pre-1860
Metmuseum: French photography post-1860
National Museum of American History: Edweard Muybridge
The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project
Chapter 9: Realism and the Urban Poor
Metmuseum: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Chapter 10: Imagined Communities: Views of Peasant Life
smarthistory: Courbet, Painter's Studio
smarthistory: Courbet, Stone Breakers
Chapter 11: Crisis in the Academy
smarthistory: Eakins, Gross Clinic
smarthistory: Manet, The Railway
smarthistory: Whistler, Nocture in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket
smarthistory: Whistler, Symphony in White No. 1: the White Girl
Chapter 12: Impressionism
smarthistory: Degas, The Dance Class
smarthistory: Renoir, Moulin de la Galette
Chapter 13: Symbolism
smarthistory: Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon
smarthistory: van Gogh, Starry Night