Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Velasco, the Valley of Mexico
"The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel" by Velasco represents an important period in the development of Mexico's national identity and an important chapter in the history of Mexican art. Velasco's landscapes became...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Contemplation and Argumentation
In this self-guided unit, you will read Romantic and Transcendental literature and you will practice the art of persuasion using rhetorical devices, appeals, and refutation while avoiding logical fallacies. By the end of the unit, you...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institute Research Information System
A site from which to search databases of collections belonging to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and for information on hundreds of thousands of artworks in public and private collections worldwide. For serious researchers only,...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Classicism
Wikipedia provides a brief overview of the classicist form of drama is provided in this encyclopedia article. The Three Unities of time, place, and action are also discussed along with a listing of classicist playwrights.
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Khan Academy: Church, Niagara and Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church is most famous for his large, blockbuster--ized landscapes. Among the many he painted, Niagara (1857) and The Heart of the Andes (1863) are justifiably the most famous. View pictures of these paintings and read...
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Khan Academy: Catlin, the White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas
George Catlin's paintings and illustrations show Native-Americans as real people as opposed to noble savages as Europeans often viewed them. View examples of his paintings and read their backstory in this essay.
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Khan Academy: Art History: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Article discussing the features of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Caspar David Friedrich
Biography of German Romantic painter Caspar Friedrich, including pictures of some of his paintings.
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Khan Academy: Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by German Emanuel Leutze is one of the most recognizable images in the history of American art. Read the backstory and view pictures of this painting.