Great (and useful) Art Sites:
(please note: when you visit an off-campus site, a new window will open.)

Early Medieval Art

Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Palatine_Chapel.html

Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel at Aix-la Chapelle
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth212/carolingian_pal_chapel.html

The Labyrinth:
Resources for Medieval Studies Sponsored by Georgetown University
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

The Lindisfarne Gospels
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/lindis.html

Medieval Art at the Metropolitan Museum, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=17

Background:

Celtic Life and Culture
The Origins of Interlace Sculpture
The Venerable Bede
The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
Beowulf

Sutton Hoo Ship Burial:
1. Archaeology of Sutton Hoo
2. Archeology of Sutton HooSutton Hoo Society; includes a tour
The British Museum's Sutton Hoo Treasures
Article on Sutton Hoo from Current Archaeology

Hiberno-Saxon Manuscript Illumination:

The making of an illuminated manuscript
Book of Durrow
The Book of Kells
The Lindesfarne Gospels
A Closer Look at the Lindesfarne Gospels

Charlemange:
Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne translated by Samuel Epes Turner (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880)
Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel Panorama Interactive

The Sword of Charlemagne
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Legends of Charlemange
Charlemagne's Biography1
Charlemagne's Biography 2
Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel, Achen, Germany

Utrecht Psalter
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/illuman/12_03.html
http://vitrine.library.uu.nl/wwwroot/en/texts/Hs32.htm

Egyptian Art

Ancient Egypt (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/ancient/aegypt.html
Egyptian Art 2700 BC-200 AD http://www.mystudios.com/art/ancient/egyptian/egyptian.html
Explore the Pyramids (PBS NOVA Online), with links to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/
Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo with links to works in the collection: http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/frame_bar_1024.html
Monuments to Glory: The Temples of Ancient Egypt, with links to the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and the temples at Amarnahttp://members.tripod.com/~ib205/monuments.html

Islamic Art

The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/jerusalem-dome-of-the-rock.htm
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Dome_of_the_Rock.html
http://www.noblesanctuary.com/contents.html

The Alhambra, Granada, Spain http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Alhambra.html

Sacred Places, includes The Great Mosque at Cordoba http://witcombe.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/cordoba.html

Gothic Art

The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm
http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/

Guilds in 14th Century Europe
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/guild-sthhmptn.html
http://www.medieval-spell.com/Medieval-Guilds.html

The End of the Middle Ages http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/art2.html

Gothic Cathedrals
http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/cathedrals.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/16545/data/low/gothic.htm

Northern Sculpture 1250-1400 http://www.shafe.co.uk/art/Northern_Sculpture_1250-1400_1.asp Amiens Cathedral http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/art2.html http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html Chartres Cathedral http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/chartreswest/centralportal.html http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Chartres_Cathedral.html http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/chartres-cathedral Notre Dame, Reims http://www2.art.utah.edu/cathedral/rei_xw.html http://www.great-cathedrals.com/Cathedrals/Notre_Dame_Reims/   http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/reims-cathedral.htm Notre Dame, Paris http://www.elore.com/Gothic/History/Overview/paris.htm http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/notre-dame/   Gothic Art in Italy Proto-Gothic The Arena Chapel, Padua http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/tours/giotto/arena.html http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth213/arenachapel.html Saint Francis of Assisi http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/FRANCIS.htm Gothic Florence Cathedral http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Florence_Cathedral.html Florence Baptistery http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/bc.htm http://www.cameron.edu/~barbaras/photos/Baptistery.htm doesn’t work Pisa Baptistery http://www2.art.utah.edu/cathedral/pisa_bapi.html Duccio's Maesta http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/duccio/buoninse/maesta/index.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/di-buoninsegna-duccio-the-maesta-altarpiece-130811-768137.html Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Frescoes of the Good and Bad Government http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/l/lorenzet/ambrogio/governme/ Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, 2nd ed., Chapter16 http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_stokstad_arthistrev_2/0,9324,1426034-,00.html Abbot Suger http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/sugar.html Royal Abbey of Sainte-Denis Ste. Denis, Patron Saint of Paris and France http://www.artist-at-large.com/saintdenis.htm http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13343b.htm Chartres Cathedral http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/chartreswest/centralportal.html http://sacred-destinations.com/france/chartres-cathedral.htm http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Chartres_Cathedral.html http://www.mymaze.de/chartres_technisch_e.htm Notre Dame, Reims http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Cathedrals/Reims/Notre-Dame_Reims.shtml Notre Dame, Paris http://www.elore.com/Gothic/History/Overview/paris.htm http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/notre-dame/ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-876878383503213708 The Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 1243-40 http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Cathedrals/Paris/Sainte-Chapelle.shtml http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/La_Sainte-Chapelle.html http://fromparis.com/modules/quicktime_fullscreen_display.php?style=qtfullscreen&pano=000091_02

Modernism (20th-Century European)

Sigmund Freud's, Interpretation of Dreams, 1900 http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Dreams/index.htm
Dream Psychology http://publicliterature.org/books/dream_psychology/xaa.php

Expressionist Movements:

The Fauves (in France) http://www.sanderhome.com/Fauves/
Henri Matisse at the Web Museum http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/

Expressionist Movements in Germany
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/

(1) Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, 1905-13
http://the-artists.org/movement/die_Brucke.html

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Kierchner and the formation of Brücke
German Expressionists and the "Primitive"

(2) Der Blau Reiter (The Blue Rider) in Munich, 1912-16
http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=1057

Wassily Kandinsky http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/     
Wassily Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5321

Franz Marc http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/marc.html

The Independent Expressionists

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz Museum in Berlin http://www.kaethe-kollwitz.de/
Biography and Virtual Tour http://www.takver.com/art/art200701.htm
Kollwitz at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=511

Egon Schiele at the Web Museum http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/schiele/
Review of Schiele's work, Live Flesh By Arthur C. Danto
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060123/danto/1
http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/arthur_c_danto

Cubism http://maryadamart.com/Cubism_The_Big_Picture.htm
Pablo Picasso On-Line Picasso Project http://picasso.csdl.tamu.edu/picasso/
Article on Picasso, Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/picasso.html
Video on Picasso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0su_tnBI28
Georges Braque http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/braque.html

Dada http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm
Dada Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006 http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Dada.html
Dada at the Web Museum http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/dada/
Marcel Duchamp http://members.chello.nl/j.seegers1/dada_files/duchamp.html
Duchamp Video http://www.ubu.com/film/duchamp.html
Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp http://www.understandingduchamp.com/

Surrealism http://www.surrealism.org/
Andre Breton (French), theorist and author of The Surrealist Manifesto, 1924 http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/F98/SurrealistManifesto.htm
Salvador Dali http://biography.free-people.net/paintings-salvador-dali.php
Dali's Wind Powered Surrealist Organ http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/04/1057179156682.html
Watch Dali's film Un Chien Andalou http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=1099&format=movie&theme=guide
Meret Oppenheim http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/section/32/569.htm
Joan Miró http://www.abcgallery.com/M/miro/miro.html

Italian Futurism http://cotati.sjsu.edu/spoetry/folder6/ng63.html

Suppression of the Avant-Garde in Germany http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/gang/stolen_art/2.html

Nineteenth Century Art

The Academy d' Beaux Arts http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/courbet-dossier/artistic-context.html

Early Photography and Realism Sites on the Web

Invention of Photography http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0860364.html
Niepce/Daguerre/Isadore http://www.niepce.com/pagus/pagus-inv.html
Maison Nicephore Niepce http://www.maison.niepce.museum/
Henry William Fox-Talbot Museum http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-lacockabbeyvillage/w-lacockabbeyvillage-talbotmuseum.htm
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/HD/tlbt/hd_tlbt.htm
A Brief History of Panoramic Photography http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/pnhist1.html
Book Review: The Panorama: History of a Mass Medium by Stephan Oetterman http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/icono/rapotter/panortxt.htm
Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?cat=2&segid=378
1849 Photography Textbook http://www.classic-photography-school.com/

Realism
European Realism http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c19th/realism.htm
American Realism http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/amer_realism.htm

Gustave Courbet
Courbet, The Realist Manifesto http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=369
Courbet Speaks http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/courbet-dossier/courbet-speaks.html
Essay on Courbet on the occasion of a special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/gustave_courbet/more.asp
Courbet's Paintings http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/courbet.html#images

Honore Daumier
Daumier at the Musée d'Orsay http://musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/resultat-collection.html?no_cache=1&S=0&zsz=1&zs_r_2_z=3&zs_r_2_w=Daumier, Honore&zs_ah=oeuvre&zs_rf=mos_a&zs_mf=20&zs_sf=0&zs_send_x=1&zs_liste_only=1
Daumier: The Complete Graphics http://www.daumier-register.org/login.php?startpage
Biography and works in the Hammer Museum Collection http://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/detail/collection_id/4

Jean-François Millet
Works in various museum collections http://wwar.com/masters/m/millet-jean-francois.html
Biography, Web Museum Paris http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/millet/

Thomas Eakins(1844-1916)
Biography from the Art Archive http://www.artchive.com/artchive/E/eakins.html

Manet
Biobraphy and other references http://www.abcgallery.com/M/manet/manet.html
Tour: Manet and His Influence, National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg90/gg90-main1.html
Manet's Studio http://www.mystudios.com/manet/manet.html
Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882 http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/manet_bar/
Manet's Olympia, 1863 http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/masterpiece/2002/05/13/olympia/
All of Manet's painings http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Impressionism/Edouard+Manet/

Romanticism

My Hidious Progeny: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/
Mary Shelly, Frankenstein, The compllete text http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/

19th Century Scientific Achievements http://www.iun.edu/~hisdcl/h114_2002/nineteenthcentury.htm

The Life and Research of Charles Darwin http://www.aboutdarwin.com/
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin On Line http://darwin-online.org.uk/darwin.html
Social Darwinism http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/eh4.shtml

Romanticism http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/romanticism/arthistory_romanticism.html
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/romanticism.htm

Antoine-Jean Gros
His paintings and a brief biography http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gros/
Antoine-Jean Gross Biography http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Antoine-Jean_Gros/biography.html

Theodore Gericault
Gericault's Raft of the Medusa at the Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673236500&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673236500&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500815&baseIndex=0&bmLocale=en
Raft of the Medusa http://www.pogues.com/Misc/Medusa.html
The Medusa Project http://www.medusa-project.net/eng/projet/gericault.htm

Eugene Delacroix
Brief Biography http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=408
Musee Delacroix, France http://www.musee-delacroix.fr/

Francisco Goya
Resources on Goya and His Work http://eeweems.com/goya/index.html
Goya, His Life and Work http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/goya_war1.html

Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner at the National Gallery in London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/artistBiography?artistID=702
Essay on Turner at the Metropolitan Museum, New York http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/trnr/hd_trnr.htm
Turner's Gallery at the Tate, London http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turner/gallery3d.htm

Impressionism and Post Impressionism

Haussmann's Paris http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/architecture/Haussmanns-Architectural-Paris.html

Êcole des Beaux-Arts http://www.jssgallery.org/Essay/Ecole_des_Beaux-Arts/Ecole_des_Beaux-Arts.htm
Salon des Refuses http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=293

Charles Baudelaire and The Painting of Modern Life http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/insight/harding_guys/harding_guys01.html
Charles Baudelaire Biography http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/baudelai.htm

Société des Artistes Indépendants http://www.artistes-independants.fr/

Impressionism at the Web Museum http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/

Claude Monet biography and high resolution images of his works http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/
Monet's method of painting from Techniques of the Great Masters of Art http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/monet/legrenou_text.jpg.html

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Renior Gallery http://www.renoir.org.yu/

Edgar Degas
At the Web Museum of Art http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/degas/
Biography at Harvard http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/art/65/edgar_degas.htm
PBS Degas and Dancing http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/degas/degas.html

The Women Impressionists: A Sourcebook http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=71746064

Berthe Morisot
At the Web Museum of Art http ://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/morisot/
Biography http://www.paulvanrensburg.com/morisot.html

Mary Cassatt
At the Web Museum of Art http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/

Post-Impressionism
http://www.artmovements.co.uk/postimpressionism.htm

Paul Cézanne
At the Web Museum of Art http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/
Biography http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Artists/s/Georges_Seurat/index.html

Georges Seurat
At the Web Museum of Art http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/seurat/
Pointillism http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Emerson/pntmat.html
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884, 1884–86 http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_7.shtml

Paul Gauguin
At the Web Museum of Art http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gauguin/
Biography http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_9.shtml

Vincent van Gogh
The Vincent van Gogh Gallery http://www.vangoghgallery.com
Van Gogh's Letters http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/
Artical on Van Gogh's Self-Mutilation http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_523_162/ai_n15880259

Romanesque Art

Eyewitness to History: Invasion of England, 1066 (The Bayeux Tapestry)
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bayeux.htm

Fontenay Abbey, featuring a virtual tour
http://www.abbayedefontenay.com/

Pilgrimage Routes to Santiago de Compostella
http://www.hotelesconencanto.org/hotel_rioja/hotel_casalarreina/routes/pilgrimage_route.htm

The Bayeux Tapestry (all of the scenes)
http://www.sjolander.com/viking/museum/bt/bt.htm

The Reading Bayeux Tapestry (a copy made by Victorian needleworkers)
http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/

The Vezelay Route
http://www.csj.org.uk/route-vezelay.htm

Webcam on the Obradoiro Square of Santiago de Compostela, watch the pilgrims arrive
http://www.crtvg.es/cgi-bin/camweb/camaras.asp?id=7&idioma=galego

Life at the time of the First Mellenium

Women at the time of the First Mellenium

The Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy, Conques

The Abbey Church of Notre-Dame, Fontenay
The Cistercian Abbey at Fontenay (Many images)

The Basilica of Saint Madeleine, Veselay
Benedictine Monestary of Veselay

The Basilica of Saint Sernin, Toulouse

Gislebertus, The Last Judgment, West Portal, St. Lazare, Autun, c. 1120-35
St. Lazare, Autun
Details of the Tympanum
Image Gallery
Brief Biography of Gislebertus
Entry from Getty Index

The Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070, wool embroidery on linen, height, 20", length, 229' 8"
The Bayeux Tapestry
Animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry
Propaganda on Cloth

Pilgrimage and Pilgrimage Routes
An excerpt from Pilgrimage to the End of the World The Road to Santiago de Compostela
Conrad Rudolph
Contemporary information about the Pilgrimage to Santiago

Relics and Reliquaries in Medieval Christianity from the Met

Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe

 

Prehistoric Art

Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (Paleolithic cave paintings)

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/

Lascaux:
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml

Neolithic Monuments http://julen.net/ancient/Archaeology/Megaliths/index.html

Neolithic Sites and Mounds in the British Isles (includes links to Avebury Circle, Sillbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, Stonehenge, http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMMegaSites.html

New Grange http://www.knowth.com/

High Resoulution Images of New Grange
http://www.knowth.com/newgrange-photo.htm
http://www.knowth.com/winter-solstice.htm

The Stones of Ireland (includes New Grange http://www.stonepages.com/ireland/ireland.html

Venus of Willendorf, Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/

Venus of Willendorf, Museum of Natural History, Vienna:
http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/NHM/Prehist/Collection/Objekte_PA_01_E.html

Encyclopedia Britanica On-line Article on Guilds http://0-search.eb.com.alice.dvc.edu/eb/article-9038409?tocId=9038409
You will be required to enter your last name and your Student ID #; then search for "Guilds"
Note: When you are studying, a backgroud explaination helps to understand a concept when you are confused. This is an excellent and reliable resource.

Guilds in 14th Century Europe
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/guild-sthhmptn.html
http://www.medieval-spell.com/Medieval-Guilds.html

The End of the Middle Ages http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/art2.html

The Arena Chapel, Padua
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/tours/giotto/arena.html
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth213/arenachapel.html

Virtual tour of the Scrovegni Chapel, including Giotto's frescos http://www.giottoagliscrovegni.it/eng/home.html

Saint Francis of Assisi http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/FRANCIS.htm
Pisa Baptistery http://www2.art.utah.edu/cathedral/pisa_bapi.html

Duccio's Maesta
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/duccio/buoninse/maesta/index.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/di-buoninsegna-duccio-the-maesta-altarpiece-130811-768137.html

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Frescoes of the Good and Bad Government
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/l/lorenzet/ambrogio/governme/

Background:
Florence Cathedral http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Florence_Cathedral.html
Florence Baptistery
http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/bc.htm
http://www.cameron.edu/~barbaras/photos/Baptistery.htm
Altarpieces Definition http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/altarpiece/
Plague

The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm

15th Century Italian Renaissance

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Fillipo Brunelleschi

Donatello

Masaccio

Sandro Botticelli

16th Century Italian Renaissance

Leonardo

Giorgio Vasari: Lives of the Artists "Life of Leonardo da Vinci," 1550 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vasari1.html
Leonardo da Vinci's Paintings and Drawings http://www.elrelojdesol.com/leonardo-da-vinci/gallery-english/index.htm
Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design http://www.studio-international.co.uk/reports/da_vinci.asp
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5000
Leonardo Da Vinci by Maurice Walter Brockwell http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7785
English Translation of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Jean Paul Richter[1883] http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/index.htm
Mona Lista Images for a Modern World http://www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONALIST.htm

Leonardo's Last Supper, Refrectory of Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan

http://milan.arounder.com/da_vinci_last_supper/
http://www.cenacolovinciano.it/html/eng/smgrazie.htm
http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/leonardo/a/last_supper.htm

High Resolution Image of the Last Supper http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/10/lastsupper

Michelangelo

Michelangelo sites:
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/michelan/michelangelo_bio.htm
http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists "Michael Angelo" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vasari/vasari26.htm

Sistine Chapel, Vatican

The Borgia Pope, Pope Alexander VI, IN THE PILLORY, THE TALE OF THE BORGIA POPE, IN NINE CROWDED CHAPTERS, 38 SPLENDID ILLUSTRATIONS By John Bond, European Corrospondent, The Fellowship Forum, Wash, D.C., 1929 http://www.reformation.org/in-the-pillory.html,

Rodrigo Borgia - Pope Alexander VI http://www.lifeinitaly.com/heroes-villains/rodrigo-borgia.asp

Julius II http://www.gicas.net/machiavelli/julius2.html

Sistine Chapel, Vatican
http://arthistory.about.com/od/famous_paintings/a/sischap_ceiling.htm

Exploring the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
http://www.science.wayne.edu/~mcogan/Humanities/Sistine/index.html> - offering both and overview of the entire ceiling as well as a panel by panel examination.

MSLA - The Sistine Chapel
http://www.drjoshuadavidstone.com/scc.htm
atwork from the famous chapel.

Virtual Sistine Chapel
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/tours/sistina/index.html
collects text and pictures concerning the chapel, its history, and the masters who created it.

Visit to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican http://www.rm.astro.it/amendola/sistina.html
from the Web Gallery of Art, with information on the architecture, and paintings of the Vatican landmark
The Vatican Museum On-Line http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/CSN/CSN_Main.html
The Restoration of the Sistine Chapel http://msopal29.myweb.uga.edu/

Last Judgment

The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel, Vatican http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/ht
Contains high resolution details of the Last Judgment:

Essay on the Last Judgment and the theology behind it http://www.crucifixion.com/visual/theology/johndixon/terror.htm
Michelangelo and Copernicus: A Note on the Sistine Last Judgment," Science History Puplications Ltd., 2000
http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2006/07/13/sun-symbolism-and-cosmology-in-michelangelos-last-judgment-by-valerie-shrimplin/
http://i-cias.com/e.o/last_judgment.htm

The Documents from The Council of Trent
The Council of Trent http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent.html
The Council of Trent and the Protestant Reformation http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/council-of-trent.htm
The Catholic View of the Council of Trent from the Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15030c.htm

Rapael

Perugino and Raffaello, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists repair
Met Museum Essay on the Pacy and the Vatican Palace http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/HD/pope/hd_pope.htm

Identifies the major figures and gives information about their teachings
School of Athens http://www.newbanner.com/AboutPic/SOA.html

Article on the School of Athens repair
Daniel Orth Bell, "New Identifications in Raphael's 'School of Athens' " The Art Bulletin, 2004 (which of the 3 works?)
http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/813954
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_n4_v77/ai_17846051/print
http://www.virtual-history.com/article.php?id=15658

An explanation of Raphael's Disputa http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/raphael/4stanze/1segnatu/2/disputa1.html
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/raphael/4stanze/1segnatu/2/disputa1.html
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/raphael/htm/raphael_disputa_icon_fr.htm

Giorgione

Exhibition Catalog Essay http://www.nga.gov/press/exh/191/invention.pdf
Giorgione: Myth and Inigma (Exhibition web site) http://www.khm.at/giorgione/en/01/introduction.html

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/giorgion/index.html

Titian

Web Gallery of his paintings http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/t/tiziano/index.html
Giorgio Vasari, Titian, Lives of the Artists http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vasari/vasari25.htm

Veronese

TheTranscript of Veronese's Appearance before the Inquisition http://www.efn.org/~acd/Veronese.html
Veronese at the Web Museum http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/veronese/
Veronese's Paintings, Archives of Art http://www.artchive.com/artchive/V/veonese.html

Background

Mystery Plays
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Miracle_Plays_and_Mysteries

Caesar Ripa, Iconographia
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/Ripa/Images/ripatoc.htm
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/iconolog.html
http://www.humi.keio.ac.jp/~matsuda/ripa/ripa_index.html

Robert Campin

Mérode Altarpiece at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/ViewOne.asp?item=56.70&dep=7
Mérode Altarpiece, The Iconography http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth214_folder/campin.html

Jan van Eyck

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ghnt/

Limbourg Brothers

Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/index.htmlRobert Campin Merode Altarpiece at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/ViewOne.asp?item=56.70&dep=7Robert Campin Merode Altarpiece, The Iconography
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth214_folder/campin.htmlJan van Eyck
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ghnt/hd_ghnt.htm

Claus Sluter

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sluter_claus.html

Northern European Art in the 16th Century

Background

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Time Line of Art History: The Reformation http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/refo/hd_refo.htm
The Antichrist and the Protestant Reformation by Steve Wohlberg http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/articles/details.cfm?art=44
The Protestant Reformation Documents http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.html
A Summary of the Reformation http://www.lepg.org/religion.htm
Primary Source Documents http://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/

Lucas Cranach the Elder

http://artchive.com/artchive/C/cranach.html
http://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/

Matthias Grünewald (1460-1528) The Isenheim Altarpiece, c. 1510-15, o/pnl

A Masterpiece Born of Saint Anthony's Fire by Stanley Meisler http://www.stanleymeisler.com/smithsonian/smithsonian-1999-09-grunewald.html
Grünewald's in the Colmar Museum , from Trois Primitifs, by J.-K. Huysmans http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/jkh/grunewald.html#colmar
Encounter with Grünewald, Currents in Theology and Mission,  Feb, 2004  by Roy A. Harrisville http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MDO/is_1_31/ai_114050791/pg_1

17th Century Art in the Dutch Republic

Background

The Dutch Republic in the early seventeenth century http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/351/351-08.htm
History of the Dutch Republic during the 17th century http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1764435
17th Century Dutch Painting in the National Gallery, Washington, DC http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/dutch.shtm
A Brief Overview of the Dutch Art Market in the 17th c. http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/dutch_art/ecnmcs_dtchart.html
http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=187

Frans Hals

Biography
http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hals/halsbio.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hals/

Judith Leyster

National Museum of Women in the Arts—Artist’s Profile http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=1047
Biography http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-Leyster.htm

Johannes /Jan Vermeer

Web Gallery of Art: Vermeer's paintings http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/v/vermeer/index.html
A multimedia encyclopedic web site on Johannes Vermeer & life in Delft http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden/
The Essential Vermeer http://www.essentialvermeer.com/

Rembrandt van Rijn

Biography http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=473
Rembrandt in the History of Art http://www.all-art.org/history252-21.html
Rembrandt’s House in Amsterdam http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/cms_pages/index_main.html
Web Catalog of Rembrandt’s Paintings http://staff.science.uva.nl/~fjseins/RembrandtCatalogue/

Jan Steen

Biography
http://www.abcgallery.com/S/steen/steenbio.html
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Jan_Steen/biography.html

 

17th Century Italy and France

Background

The Counter-Reformation

Modern History Sourcebook:
Reformation Europe http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html
Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (Moriae Encomium), 1509 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1509erasmus-folly.html
Sir Thomas More: Utopia, 1516 KS) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/thomasmore-utopia.html

Art of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw20reformationart.htm
ABRIDGED HISTORY OF ROME - PART IIIV - EARLY BAROQUE ROME http://www.romeartlover.it/Storia23.html
Pope Sixtus V Plan for Rome by William Cone http://courses.umass.edu/latour/2005/CONE/index.html

The Guttenberg Project, The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8120

Timeline of Art History: Rome and Southern Italy,  1600—1800 C.E. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/09/eusts/ht09eusts.htm

Architectural Time and Space: Baroque Architecture http://www.learn.columbia.edu/ha/html/baroque.html

Modern History Sourcebook: Social Conditions in 17th Century France http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17france-soc.html

Artists and Academies

http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/academies.html

Artimesia Gentileschi

The Life and Art of Artemisia Gentileschi http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/index.shtml

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Biography http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
Link to Carnaro Chapel site with quotation from the writings of St. Teresa http://www.boglewood.com/cornaro/xteresa.html
Bernini Architect http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Bernini.html

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

Biography http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/caravaggio.html
Biography 2 http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/c/caravagg/biograph.html
WebMuseum, Paris, Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/
CV Caravaggio, The Life of the Artist with Illustrations http://home.worldonline.dk/lfmat/cv0eng.htm
Pod Cast on the Calling of St. Matthew http://smarthistory.org/blog/68/caravaggio-the-calling-of-st-matthew-1599/
Interview with Caravaggio's biographer, Peter Robb
Caravaggio and Homoeroticism

Artemisia Gentileschi
Biography
The Life and Art of Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia: The Rape and the Trial

Jacque Callot
Biography

de La Tour
Biography
The Artist's Paintings

Claude Lorrain
Brief Biography and overview of his paintings
Biography and overview of his work

Nicholas Poussin
Poussin and Nature: Exhibition at the Met
Poussin's Patrons
Essay on Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Poussin in Rome: Foundations of French Classicism
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
The Founding of the French Royal Academy

17th Century Spain and Flanders

General
History (17th century) Spain
http://www.wga.hu/tours/spain/h_17.html
The Golden Century
http://www.sispain.org/english/language/golden.html
Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Exhibition at the National Galley of Art, Washington, DC)
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg30/gg30-main1.html
17th Century Conversos in Amsterdam (Conversos were forced converts to Catholicism)
http://www.kulanu.org/netherlands/amsterdam.html

 Zurbaran
Biography
The Beckoning Art Page

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Rubens
Biography
http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rubens/rubensbio.html

Before Rubens, no Western artist of equally great talent had been as well born…
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rubens.html

Rubens: A Master in the Making Exhibition at the National Gallery, London
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/rubens/default.htm

End of innocence: Rubens was a pacifist in a world of warmongers. So why was he so fascinated by bloody scenes of horrifying violence? By Jonathan Jones, Manchester Guardian
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,903646,00.html

The Medici Cycle
http://www.students.sbc.edu/vandergriff04/mariedemedici.html

Anthony Van Dyke
Brief Biography
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/V/van_dyck.html
Biography
http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vandyck/vandyckbio.html

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