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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Lets Net: Electronic Field Trips: Comparing Landscapes

For Students 9th - 10th
Art unit teaching how to compare landscape paintings. Includes unit description, list of materials, and links to lesson plans.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Jean Clouet the Younger: Works Viewable on the Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource links you to several sites on the 'Net displaying works by Jean Clouet (C.1485-1541).
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a Webmuseum English biographical essay of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, with a number of art illustrations.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

For Students 9th - 10th
A Webmuseum English biographical essay of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, with a number of art illustrations.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Gustave Courbet

For Students 9th - 10th
A Webmuseum English biographical essay, with a number of examples of his art work. Good images, each with a description.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Pierre Auguste Renoir

For Students 9th - 10th
A Webmuseum biographical essay on Pierre-Auguste Renoir, with a number of examples of his art work. Good images, each with a description of the work.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Edgar Degas

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a Webmuseum English biographical essay of Edgara Degas, with a number of art illustrations.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Henri De Toulouse Lautrec

For Students 9th - 10th
A WebMuseum English biographical essay from Ibiblio.org on painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, with a number of art illustrations.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Flower Painters

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's chronological list of flower painters from the 16th thru the 20th centuries. There are links to the painters' biography and works.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Degas and Dancers

For Students 3rd - 8th
This ibiblio.org page provides an introspective look into the story behind Degas' dancer paintings. Also includes a gallery of such paintings as "The Dancing Class."
Lesson Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: As You Like It

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan that uses online resources to provide fuller examination of "As You Like It."
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CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Albert Bierstadt

For Students 9th - 10th
This museum article provides fifteen thumbnail images of Albert Bierstadt's paintings are available for enlarging, with biographical information on a separate page.
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Rice University

Northern Renaissance: Its in the Details

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides an outline that contains stylistic differences between Northern Renaissance painters and their Italian counterparts. Images are offered.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute:visual Blues of Lawrence, Douglas, and Bearden

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Within this lesson plan there is a nice introduction to Douglas' work.
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University of Alberta

Eas: A Gallery of 19th Century Icelandic Landscape Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides images of 19th century landscapes of various parts of Iceland. Images links to larger images for viewing purposes.
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National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Plas Tic

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a multimedia educational resource. Some of the topics are: volume and space, computer imaging, techniques for drawing and painting and proportion and scale in art. It is divided into four different levels.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Expressionism

For Students 9th - 10th
This Artlex site offers a brief description of Expressionism, examples of Expressionist work, quotes, and related links.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Definition of "art" according to ArtLex, a dictionary of art terms. Includes links to other important terms, as well as a long list of quotations defining "art."
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The Wharton Group

Discover France: Rococo Style

For Students 9th - 10th
This website gives the history of the Rococo, a style of decoration in Europe and France in the 18th century. It applies to other forms of art, but not architecture. Provides related links.
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The Wharton Group

Discover France: Art Periods: Fauvism

For Students 9th - 10th
This Discover France site offers a comprehensive definition of Fauvism, links to other Fauve sites, and a list of quotes by Fauve artists.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: The Eight

For Students 9th - 10th
Examples of work by a group of early Modernist painters known as "The Eight." Gives a brief history of the group.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Ashcan School

For Students 9th - 10th
Many examples of work by the group of painters known as the "Ashcan School." Brief history of the group as well.
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University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow: Correspondence of James Mc Neill Whistler

For Students 9th - 10th
Searchable collection of letters and correspondence by James McNeill Whistler.
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CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Winslow Homer: The Morning Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
This online collection contains information on artists and their art work. This site provides an image of Winslow Homer's The Morning Bell.