Museum Network (UK)
Museum Network: Landscapes in Art: Explore, Learn, Inspire
The Museum Network presents, "Landscapes in Art: Explore, Learn, Inspire", an interactive exploration of the visual art genre, the landscape. With activities, information about the development of the landscape in painting, examples of...
Museum Network (UK)
Museum Network: "Landscape With a Watermill" by Francois Boucher
From the British, Museum Network, which brings together information from and the expertise of various professionals at numerous museums, this is an object description of "Landscape with a Watermill" by the French Rococo painter, Francois...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Courbet and the Modern Landscape
The Getty's multimedia-rich exploration of the life and career of French realist Gustave Courbet, whose innovative approach to landscape painting inspired many artists who came after him, including Monet, Cezanne, and Pissarro. Along...
Other
Death on a Painted Lake: The Tom Thomson Tragedy Landscapes
An fascinating collection of documents, maps, paintings, and more, exploring the region where Tom Thomson painted shortly before his death.
Crayola
Crayola Asian Landscape Scroll
Here's a lesson plan for students of any age! Children use Chinese scroll painting as inspiration to create their own version of this ancient art form. Provides resources and adaptations as well. You need to register to view the page,...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Landscape Painters
ArtCyclopedia's chronological list of landscape painters from the 16th thru the 20th centuries. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
University of Alberta
Eas: A Gallery of 19th Century Icelandic Landscape Art
This website provides images of 19th century landscapes of various parts of Iceland. Images links to larger images for viewing purposes.
Other
Art and Architecture: Four Paintings: Pissarro: Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich
Description and analysis of Pissarro's English railway landscape.
Other
Early American Paintings in the Worcester Art Museum
A site with examples and information about early American paintings from 1671-1829. Use the timeline to click on a time period, or click and select by artist, genre, or place of origin. Also includes an extensive bibliography.
Read Works
Read Works: Forms of Art Landscape Paintings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a descriptive pieces for the artistic product of landscape paintings, their different purposes, and styles of design. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Landscape
A very nice website with a definition of landscape and several examples of landscape paintings and photographs. Provides links to landscape art from specific historical eras.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Landscapes by Artists Born Between 1801 and 1820
Great website of landscapes done by artists born in the early 19th century (before 1820). Includes nice images and links to further information on specific pieces of art.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Landscapes by Artists Born Between 1701 and 1800
A nice website with examples of landscapes by artists born during the 18th century. Each example is annotated with general information and a link is provided for more information on the individual piece of art.
Other
Alien Travel Guide: Styles of Painting
A descriptive site from Alientravelguide.com that explains nine different styles of painting.
Other
Post Road Gallery: American Paintings
Landscape paintings are included in this collection of American art. Biographical information accompanies the images.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Tour: Constable and Turner: British Landscapes
View a selection of paintings by English romantics Constable and Turner in the collections of the National Gallery. Tour has biographical and curatorial notes, along with detailed views of each painting.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Claude Lorrain, "Pastoral Landscape"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art gives you Claude Lorrain, "Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna". Here you can find a brief discription of the painting and a reproduction of the work.
Indiana University
Indiana University: Lilly Library: Fore Edge Painting
Exhibition of an obscure art form known as fore-edge painting, a decorative art that arose in Europe alongside the bookbinding trade. View examples of books embellished with finely painted fore-edges of subjects such as the Canterbury...
Other
Flemish Art Collection: "Italian Landscape" by Karel Dujardin
Depiction of the painting "Italian Landscape" by Karel Dujardin. The page loads in Dutch, but there is an option to view the page in English.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Art Wonders
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
Canadian Museum of History
Canadian Museum of History: Gallery
This article is easy to navigate for students of all ages. Provides examples of Chinese artwork: plants and flowers, birds, mammals, landscapes, portraits, semi-realist landscapes, symbolic art, and abstract art.
Other
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
This site known as the JSS virtual gallery is a great site with a biography of the artist John Singer Sargent and an extensive listing of his works. Links 350+ paintings.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Edward Hopper: Landscapes
This site contains a list of Edward Hopper's landscape paintings. It includes pictures of the paintings.
Tom Richey
Tom richey.net: Dutch Golden Age Painting
A PowerPoint presentation created by a history teacher that teachers can use in their classroom. This presentation focuses on the Dutch Golden Age. This presentation focuses on the six major types of painting (historical, landscapes and...