New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has an online art history database that includes an extensive timeline depicting artistic periods throughout history, examples of art, and searchable indices.
This exibit marks the centenary of the death of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), a founding father of modern art. He created some of the most powerful and innovative paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The website for the exhibit (January 29 - May 7, 2006) includes images of more than 30 paintings and drawings by this key figure in the impressionist and postimpressionist movements.
"Leonard Bernstein: An American Life" is a guide to an 11- part documentary illuminating the life and work of one of America's greatest classical musicians, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). An audio overview -- and websites for learning about Bernstein and classical music - are provided. http://wfmt.com/bernstein/
Moldenhauer Archives presents 130 music manuscripts, letters, and materials from a 3,500-item collection documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era. Essays by musicologists discuss items from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Handel, Liszt, Mozart, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and other composers. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/moldenhauer/
This is the first exhibit to focus on the relationships among photography, film, and painting in the works of Charles Sheeler (1883-1965). Sheeler explored these relationships with more rigor and discipline than perhaps any other artist of his generation. (NGA)
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/sheelerinfo.htm
provides essays on 12 paintings and biographies of 8 artists: William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Henry Twachtman (1853-1902), Childe Hassam (1859-1935), and others (NGA).
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