Victorian Web
Victorian Web: Pre Raphaelites, an Introduction
Victorian Web offers a commentary on Pre-Rapaelite art and how to understand the symbolism in the paintings.
Library of Congress
Loc: Romanticism in Dresden
This site from the Library of Congress provides an exerpt regarding the Romantic movement in Germany. The information that is presented is medium in length and worth checking out on the subject.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Romanticism
Learning game provides 19 questions about the cultural and artistic movement that predominated in Europe during the first half of the XIXth century. See if you can match the correct answer with the correct picture.
The Wharton Group
Discover France: Eugene Delacroix
This site offers a biography, work samples, and links related to the Romantic French painter, Eugene Delacriox. Includes a couple pictures of some of his art.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix is said to be the most representative painter of French romanticism. In his painting, "Liberty Leading the People" Delacroix completed what has become both a defining image of French romanticism and one of the most...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Copley, Watson and the Shark
"Watson and the Shark" is an energetic and emotional work by John Singleton Copley. It retains a special place within the history of late-eighteenth-century English Romanticism. View the picture and read the details of this painting in...
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...
Curated OER
Romanticism
A brief overview and definitions of Romantic art charateristics and a list of example works (thumbnail pics included).
Other
Ayn Rand Society
Website dedicated to providing information about Ayn Rand and Objectivism. Links to information on objectivism, capitalism, and art are included.
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,...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Romantic Revival
Explore the world of British Literature from the Romantic Period. This site focuses on information on the authors of the romantic period, as well as links to their works. Check it out.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Article discussing the features of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Eugene Delacroix
A short biography of Eugene Delacroix. Includes specific notes for many of his works, including "Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi", though there is no reproduction of the painting.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Honore Daumier
This site gives a look at some of Daumier's paintings. Shows them as thumnails (that can be enlarged) and comments on some of them.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Caspar David Friedrich
Biography of German Romantic painter Caspar Friedrich, including pictures of some of his paintings.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Goya, the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Quiz)
How much do you know about Goya's work The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Goya, the Third of May
How much do you know about The Third of May by Goya? Find out by answering this five-question multiple-choice quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Gustave Moreau
Gustave is a French painter, one of the leading Symbolist artists. This site contains information on Moreau's art work as well as providing examples of his work.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Two Men Contemplating the Moon," by Friedrich
View one of Friedrich's famous paintings, "Two Men Contemplating the Moon." A description of the painting is also provided.
Khan Academy
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.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Classicism
This site gives an overview of classicism, then proceeds to compare it with neoclassicism. The article then explores the roots of the term "classicism" and its inherent meaning to the Greeks and Romans. Contains a French translation.
Baertracks
Creative Quotations: Eugene Delacroix
This site from Creative Quotations contains a brief list of quotes from the artist. A very short biographical sketch is also available. An interesting site, and worth checking out.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: John Constable
A thumbnail collection of John Constable's paintings, including "Hampstead Heath," that can be enlarged for up-close viewing. With a brief biographical note on the artist.
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