Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Romanticism
This valuable website provides access to a number of (mostly textual) documents related to romanticism. See also the page on the industrial revolution on the same site.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook15.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html Treasures of Napoléon
This website is a companion to a touring exhibit of artifacts and artworks related to Napoleon Bonaparte. The site provides basic information about the emperor accompanied by a number of images of items in the exhibit.
http://www.napoleonexhibit.com/ Napoleon.org: Key Paintings
Students can use the images reproduced on this website to investigate how Napoleon and his supporters used art to craft an image of him as a romantic hero. Other pages on the site provide valuable historical information about the French emperor.
http://www.napoleon.org/en/essential_napoleon/key_painting/premier_empire.asp The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
As its title suggests, this website allows visitors to browse the complete works of Charles Darwin—not only his published works, but his manuscripts as well.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Project Gutenberg
At this expansive website, students can find a number of e-texts from the nineteenth century, including works by Mary and Percy Shelley, Emerson, Douglass, Austen, Goethe, and many others.
http://www.gutenberg.org 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 Berlioz, Verdi, Schubert, and Beethoven.
http://www.cpdl.org Timeline of Art History: European Art in the Nineteenth Century
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 nineteenth-century art and culture, including "Nineteenth-Century Classical Music," "William Blake," and "Romanticism." See also the section on American Art in the Nineteenth Century on the same site.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=18
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=5 Art History Resources on the Web: 19th-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 nineteenth-century art (including romanticism), as well as that of many other cultures and time periods.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks5.html Art Cyclopedia: Romanticism
This compendious website catalogues links to other sites (usually museum websites) where students can find images of the works of specific Romantic artists (sometimes the links identify the specific artwork as well).
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/romanticism.html Web Gallery of Art
This website provides images of a number of works by important artists, including Goya, Géricault, and Delacroix. Visitors can search for the works of specific artists or browse movements such as romanticism.
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 Beethoven, Chopin, Berlioz, and Schubert. 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 Keeping Score: Revolutions in Music
This website, maintained by the San Francisco Symphony, offers multimedia explorations of the lives and works of prominent composers. The site blends images and music, with innovative features that shed new light on orchestral performances. Relevant sections on the site include Tchaikovsky: Fourth Symphony and Beethoven: Eroica.
http://www.keepingscore.org/ The Classical Midi Connection: The Romantic Period
This website houses a wealth of midi files, including wide selections of works by major composers such as Beethoven and Schubert, and a sampling of the works of dozens of lesser artists.
http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/romantic.html Campfire Stories with George Catlin
This website, maintained by the Smithsonian, provides access to images of the museum's large collection of Catlin's artwork. The site includes a good number of audio clips of both excerpts from Catlin's writings and analyses by modern scholars.
http://catlinclassroom.si.edu/cl.html Eugene Delacroix Paintings Gallery
This website contains a biography of Delacroix, plus images of 108 of his works. See also the similar site on Joseph M. W. Turner, which has the same scope and format.
http://www.eugenedelacroix.org/
http://www.william-turner.org/ American Transcendentalism Web
This website provides a good introduction to transcendentalism, with definitions of its philosophy, identifications of its roots, and biographies of the figures associated with it, both major and minor.
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/introduction.html The Walt Whitman Archive
This website provides e-texts of all of the different editions of Leaves of Grass published during Whitman's lifetime, so students can see how it evolved. The site also has copies of contemporary reviews of Whitman's works, and images and transcriptions of drafts of many of his poems.
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ The Hudson River School: American Landscape Artists of the 19th Century
This website provides a good introduction to the prominent American landscape artists such as Thomas Cole, accompanied by a few representative images of their works.
http://home.att.net/~hudsonriverschool/home.htm | 