Art Cyclopedia: Rococo Art
This compendious website catalogues links to other sites (usually museum websites) where students can find images of the works of specific Rococo artists (sometimes the links identify the specific artwork as well). See also the websites page on neoclassicism.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/rococo.html
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/neoclassicism.html Art History Resources on the Web: 18th-Century 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 the art of the eighteenth century (as well as that of many other cultures and time periods).
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH18thcentury.html Quotidiana
This website is dedicated to reprinting select works of master essayists. Here students can read examples of the writings of Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others.
http://essays.quotidiana.org/ Project Gutenberg
At this website, students can find online texts by a large number of authors, including Alexander Pope, Richard Steele, and Samuel Richardson, among many others.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Web Gallery of Art
This website provides images of a number of works by important artists, including Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Clodion. Visitors can search for the works of specific artists or browse movements such as rococo and neoclassical.
http://www.wga.hu/ Web Gallery of Art: Music Selection
This page on the website described above houses a large number of audio clips of pre-twentieth-century music, including works by both Haydn and Mozart. The music files are available in both midi and mp3 formats (the latter with a more limited, but still representative, selection).
http://www.wga.hu/music.html Louvre: A Closer Look at the Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour
This multimedia page on the Louvre's website provides background and analysis of Maurice-Quentin Delatour's portrait of Louis XV's favorite mistress, the Marquise de Pompadour. An audio commentary is accompanied by highlighted and zoomed views of the painting.
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/dossiers/detail_oal.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198674119830&CURRENT_LLV_OAL%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198674119830&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=0&bmLocale=en William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture
This online exhibit, maintained by the McCormick Library of Special Collections at Northwestern University, provides images of Hogarth's work accompanied by analytic and explanatory commentary. One section of the exhibition explains eighteenth-century printmaking.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/hogarth/main.html Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Scientific Revolution
This website offers a range of selections from important texts related to the Scientific Revolution, including writings by Bacon, Descartes, and Copernicus. Many of the documents are excerpts from larger works. The texts are arranged thematically. See also the pages dedicated to the Enlightenment, American Independence, and the French Revolution on the same site.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook09.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook10.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html 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 Enlightenment-era art and culture, including "The Eighteenth Century: From Geometric to Informal Gardens," "East and West: Chinese Export Porcelain," and "European Clocks in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." Relevant pages can also be found on the site's section on European Art in the Nineteenth Century.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=17
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=18 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 Mozart and Haydn.
http://www.cpdl.org Tea in Japan
This student-designed website provides a good introduction to the Japanese tea ceremony, explaining the necessary items for and the proper performance of the ritual.
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/tea/home.html The Classical Midi Connection: The Classical Period
This website houses a wealth of midi files, including wide selections of works by major composers such as Mozart and Haydn, and a sampling of the works of dozens of lesser artists.
http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/classical.html Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
This website provides a good introduction to the life and career of the author of one of the world's most famous slave narratives. The site includes a balanced discussion of the recent controversy over whether Equiano was born in America or, as he claimed in his narrative, West Africa.
http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/index.htm NOVA: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
This website has a chronicle of Galileo's life, articles about aspects of his career by popular historians such as Dava Sobel, and interactive features that allow visitors to repeat some of his famous experiments (such as dropping two unequally weighted objects from the same height to see which would land first).
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/ The Mind of Isaac Newton
This website provides an interactive introduction to Newton's many accomplishments, including his experiments with optics and his influential theories about motion and gravity. It also explores other aspects of his career, such as his interest in alchemy.
http://www.ltrc.mcmaster.ca/newton/home.htm | 