Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Picturing the 1930s
Enter a virtual movie theater and learn about art of the 1930s in the United States. Exhibitions include: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People.
University of California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Cotton Pickers by Romare Bearden
The Berkeley Art Museum publishes an activity based on Romare Bearden's The Cotton Pickers that helps young learners identify the geometric shapes used in the composition. Also discusses the artist's use of color to evoke mood.
University of California
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum: Han Dynasty Tomb Artifact
Learn about Han Dynasty culture through an examination of a tomb artifact created to be buried with a rich landowner.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lure of the West
Beautiful artwork from the more famous artists who depicted the people, places and things of the American West.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Velino Shije Herrera: What's the Story?
Artwork often has hidden stories within them. This Native American painting has three hidden stories. Can you find them?
Other
Mississippi Museum of Art: Homepage
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Places
An educational website exploring the theme of "place" in artwork. How does "place" inspire one? How is it represented and why? What do we learn about places from art? You can find some answers here.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Educational Insights: The Headless Horseman
An interactive demonstration that reveals the literary content of John Quidor's painting The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane. Roll over elements in Quidor's painting to find connections to Washington Irving's tale of the...
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery,london: Ite About 'Elias Ashmole'
This painting by John Riley is a portrait of Elias Ashmole, the founder of the Ashmolean Museum. Learn a little bit about the museum, the painting, and the patron.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lyre
Cithara or Phorminx, from a vase in the British Museum. Best period of Greek art. -The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Parthenon
The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena, built in the 5th century BC on the Athenian Acropolis. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Temple
The best preserved of Roman temples. Located at Nimes in southern France, where it is known as La Maison Carree (the square house"). The structure is now used as a museum of antiquities."-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: As
Roman As in the British Museum.-Whitney, 1902
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Candelabrum
Candelabrum on a triangular pedistal in Vatican Museum.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cinerary Chest and Urn
Cinerary chest and urn in the Vatican Museum.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gem
Engraved Gem in the British Museum. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hadrian Coin
Bronze Coin of Hadrian, British Museum -Whitney, 1902
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ocrea
A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ocrea
A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Painting
Egyptian wall-painting of the Ancient Empire in the Bulak Museum.