Art/Music Links
- Illumniations
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - Medieval
Illuminated Manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum
in the Netherlands.
- Alphabet et Enluminures - Some beautiful examples
of alhpabet illuminations.
- Calligraphica - Some examples of a calligrapher's
art.
- Illumniated Manuscripts - A catalog of illuminated manuscripts.
- Images Manuscripts - Some beautiful
images of manuscripts.
- Celtic Alphabet
- General Art Sites
- Artcyclopedia
- an index to images of fine art searchable by artist, title, or museum name,
or browse by art movement.
- Bridges
to Art - New project from the Worcester Art Museum and Holy Cross
College providing access to images from the Museum's collection of fifty centuries
of art from around the world, as well as access to the catalogs of both institutions.
- Guggenheim.com
- A beautiful site featuring dynamic exhibitions of art from many collections.
The broadband version is outstanding.
- Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago - Includes online searchable archive of the MCA's holdings
of approximately 6,000 objects, and lesson plans with different pieces of
art from their collection.
- National
Gallery of Art - one of the finest collections in the world illustrating
major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle
Ages to the present.
- Joslyn
Art Museum Greek Pottery - teacher packet on Greek pottery
- Making
Greek Vases - Videos showing preparing, throwing, decorating, and
firing pottery in the ancient Greek style
- University
of Pennsylvania Worlds Intertwined - exhibit of Greek, Roman, and
Etruscan Art
- Ancient
Pottery - from the University of Saskatchewan Museum of Antiquities
- Beazley
Archive - ancient Greek pottery
- Leonardo
DaVinci: Master Draftsman - Outstanding site examining 40 of the drawings
from the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum. View and print any portion of
the drawing. Audio of curator commentaries are also available.
- Cinema
- an exhibit from Annenberg CPB on how Hollywood films are made.
- Classical Mosaics
- includes a demonstration of mosaic making
- Hannacrois Mosaics
- pictures and descriptions of the artists work
- How to
make a Marionette - Step-by-step instructions with illustrations and
a list of materials
- Music
- Classical Net - Index to information
on composers by time period
- Classical Composers' Archive - Another index to
information on composers. Need to disable pop-up blockers to see this one.
- Essentials of Music - Includes overviews of music history,
biographies of 70 composers, and over 200 audio excerpts of the essential
classics
- Discovering
Music - Detailed evaluations of many complete classical masterpieces,
from the BBC.
- Music Theory
- An interactive website with music theory tutorials for students and teachers
by Ricci Adams. Includes chord calculator, staff paper generator, and more.
- Graphics
- Clip Art Gallery
- A great source for free graphics
- The Amazing Picture
Machine - Searchable
- Pics 4 Learning
- Copyright friendly sight for education-related images.
- FreeFoto - A large
collection of photographs free for personal use.
- Classroom Clipart
- Search or browse for photos, clipart, and historical images
- PicturesOf
- High quality photos which may be used without permission for school projects
- Graphic Maps
- get images of continents, flags, and outline maps
- The NYPL
Digital Gallery - from the New York Public Library, a collection of
363,000 public domain images including illuminated manuscripts, historical
maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books,
printed ephemera, and more. Searchable.