The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 23,200 images. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided.
How to navagate the site:
Enter and click on A-Z to search an artist. Once on the page, note on the left is the “Bio” button and on the right is “I” for information on the selected image. Also note the “Glossary” button on top and next to it “Music” to pair it with the proper music for the time. When I taught at CSULA, I always had music playing before class to set the mood.
This is my favorite image site, I only wish it went throught to Modern Art as well.
Sharon Fitzgerald, MA
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