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- The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting
Companion site to an exhibit that "chart[ed] the development in [18th century] French painting of scenes of real and imagined daily life -- from the relatively fanciful fêtes galantes of Watteau and his followers early in the century, to the more realistic scenes of contemporary Parisian life."
- Artists of Brücke: Themes in German Expressionist Prints
From the Museum of Modern Art NY, this collection of over 120 German Expressionist prints is browsable by artist, medium, or theme. It includes chronology (1898-1926), map, and background information on the Brücke (bridge) group and its artists.
- Celtic Art & Cultures
This impressive site provides a searchable database of images as well as historical maps and timelines. In addition, brief articles on Celtic design and a Celtic vocabulary list are also included.
- Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
This London museum "is known internationally for its core of Futurist works, as well as figurative art and sculpture dating from 1890 to the 1950s.” The site contains brief artist biographies with images, and exhibit information.
- French and Italian Painting of the 18th Century
Introduction to the evolving artistic styles in 18th century France and Italy, during which time the "taste for rococo -- intimate and charming subjects painted in pastel colors -- gave way by mid-century to the simpler, more restrained forms of neoclassical art."
- Mauritshuis
Website for the museum in The Hague, Netherlands, whose "collection consists of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, including ... works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Jan Steen and Frans Hals ... and other Dutch and Flemish paintings from 1400 to 1800."
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
One of the world's great museums provides a virtual tour, information on recently acquired objects, and access to past, present, and future exhibits.
- Small French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art
This site provides a summary of modest-scale French impressionist and postimpressionist paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and includes images from the collection.
- Web Gallery of Art
Contains over ten thousand images of "European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800)."
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