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.
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