Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mount, Bargaining for a Horse
"Bargaining for a Horse" by William Sidney Mount is one of Mount's great works and a striking example of early nineteenth-century American genre painting at its best. View pictures of this painting and others by Mount and read about his...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Richard Caton Woodville, War News From Mexico
Richard Caton Woodville's "War News From Mexico" is an example of an American genre painting. It depicts a group of people reacting to news about the Mexican-American War. View pictures of this painting and read the backstory in this essay.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Manet's Olympia
How much do you know about the painting Olympia by Edouard Manet? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice and true/false quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
iCivics
I Civics: Machiavelli Mini Lesson
Look into the ideas and writings of the Italian thinker and politician, Niccolo Machiavelli (1429-1527).
British Library
British Library: Jane Eyre: Discovering Literature Resources
Students will explore contextual background on governesses, orphans, and the 19th-century woman, alongside contemporary reviews of the novel and Charlotte Bronte's fair copy manuscript. [PDF]
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Novel
These articles answer the following questions about novels between 1832-1880: From Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell to George Eliot, how did the writers of this period use fantasy, realism, sensationalism, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Courbet, the Stonebreakers
"The Stonebreakers" by Gustave Courbet seems to lack the basics of art (things like a composition that selects and organizes, aerial perspective and finish) and as a result, it feels more "real". View a picture and read a description in...
Boston College
Boston College: 19th Century Painting
This site, which is provided for by the Boston College, is an index for artists during the 19th century.
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin College: Eugene O'neill
The site is devoted to the study of "The Hairy Ape." The questions are very good and related links are embedded in the text.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Freud, Lucian
A brief biography on Lucian Freud discusses his paintings and accomplishments. Also includes thumbnail images of some of his paintings.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: William Dean Howells (1837 1920)
This site provides a commentary on the writing style and works of William Dean Howells.
University of Virginia
Electronic Labyrinth: Realism and the Realist Novel
Realist novels were/are written to show life "as is." This article discusses that, and gives links to other related sites.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 702: Trompe L'oeil
A short lecture on trompe l'oeil in art that introduces the concept of realism turned to visual deception in artwork. It explores the great divide in theory between Plato and Aristotle which serves as an epistemological backdrop to the...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Realism
This Victorian Web site defines realism as used in literature and as a "nineteenth-century movement that believed novelists and painters should concentrate on describing the physical, material details of life."
Other
Bright Ring Publishing: Thomas Eakins
Here is a gesture drawing activity which looks at the art of Thomas Eakins.
Other
Electric Gallery: Abstract Realism Collections
This site includes the works of many realist artists. However, these paintings are more modern "abstract realism" rather than 19th century pieces.
Other
Richard R. Gandy Gallery of Realist Art
A gallery by Richard R. Gandy of Classical Realist art. Includes a good list of artists and has good images and information about works of art.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: Pi
This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes some information in Book III (Later National Literature) about realism as related to the writer Poe. Find this information...
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Realism Art for Kids
Kids learn about the Realism Art movement and its major artists such as Eduoard Manet and Winslow Homer.
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Renaissance Art for Kids
Kids learn about Renaissance art including painting and sculpture on this site. Explore what makes this art unique like realism and perspective.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Text highlighted in red represents modernism while blue text represents realism. Click on any word to...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Madame X John Singer Sargent
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a display of John Singer Sargent's portrait "Madame X," or "Madame Pierre Gautreau." The enlargeable image has some background information about the painting.
TES Global
Blendspace: Magical Realism
A fourteen-part learning module with links to images, slides, videos, texts, and websites on the literary technique of magical realism.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: David Gilmour Blythe
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, David Gilmour Blythe is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his bitter depictions of humanity often cloaked in depravity.