Art History Resources on the Web: Baroque Art
This website doesn't contain original material; instead it provides access to dozens of links to other sites covering a variety of topics related to Baroque art (as well as many other cultures and time periods).
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHbaroque.html Art Cyclopedia: The Baroque Era
This compendious website catalogues links to other sites (usually museum websites) where students can find images of the works of specific artists (sometimes the links identify the specific artwork as well).
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/baroque.html The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts: The Art of Asia: Edo Period
This website provides an excellent introduction to the arts of the Far East. It houses images of porcelain, landscape paintings, and other items, as well as historical information, maps, and explanatory videos. Visitors can view the artworks by type or by dynastic period. This site is a good source for examining the artistic accomplishments of the Tokugawa dynasty during Japan's Edo period.
http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/japan-edo-period.cfm Choral Public Domain Library
This website offers access to the scores of a large number of composers, often accompanied by audio files (midi and mp3) of several of the composer's pieces. Searches can be made according to composer or musical era or style. Among the composers whose works can be heard on this site are Bach, Gabrieli, Handel, and Vivaldi.
http://www.cpdl.org Timeline of Art History: European Art in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
This website, maintained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides access to a good combination of images and thematic essays divided according to culture, time period, and medium. The site contains many pages dedicated to aspects of Baroque art and culture, including "Johannes Vermeer," "The Nude in Baroque and Later Art," and "Baroque Rome."
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=17 Web Gallery of Art
This website provides images of a number of works by important artists, including Velázquez, Rubens, and El Greco. Visitors can search for the works of specific artists or browse movements such as Mannerism or Baroque.
http://www.wga.hu/index1.html Internet Modern History Sourcebook
This website offers a range of selections from important texts related to the Catholic Reformation, the English Revolution, and Absolutism, including writings by Ignatius Loyola, Louis XIV, Oliver Cromwell. Many of the documents are excerpts from larger works. The texts are arranged thematically.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html#Catholic%20Reform
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook06.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook05.html Project Gutenberg
At this expansive website, students can find a number of e-texts from the seventeenth century, including works by Loyola, Milton, and Donne.
http://www.gutenberg.org St. Ignatius Writes to His Brethren: Selected Letters and Instructions of St. Ignatius of Loyola
The writings on this website provide a good introduction to the theological views of a crucial figure in the Counter-Reformation. Each letter is prefaced with an introductory note, and footnotes explain some of the letters' more obscure references.
http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/ignatius/letters.htm Rembrandt-Caravaggio
This innovative website provides accounts of the careers of both Caravaggio and Rembrandt, illustrated by their respective works. It also has a feature that allows visitors to compare various pairings of the two artists' productions to illuminate shared techniques and subtle differences of approach.
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/formats/container_remcar_en.html Milton Reading Room
This website provides access to a large number of Milton's published works, with many helpful annotations to guide readers.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/index.shtml John Donne Sermons: Digital Collections at Brigham Young University
At this website, visitors can browse or search the collected sermons of John Donne.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/donne/ Kunst der Fuge
This site offers access to a large number of midi files of audio recordings of the works of important composers such as Bach and Handel: a good site for students to become familiar with these artists' works and styles.
http://kunstderfuge.com/ The Classical Midi Connection: The Baroque Period
This website houses a wealth of midi files, including wide selections of works by major composers such as Bach and Vivaldi, and a sampling of the works of dozens of lesser artists.
http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/baroque.html Virtual Vermeer
This website provides a biography of Vermeer, along with images of his paintings accompanied by brief explanations of the works' influences and significances to his career.
http://www.virtualvermeer.com/ Paintings Gallery of Rembrandt van Rijn
This website offers images of 285 of Rembrandt's works, along with a detailed and illustrated account of the artist's life and career.
http://www.rembrandtonline.org/ | 