This website alphabetizes and briefly describes all the major movements in the history of visual arts. Good for use as a general reference for Art History studies and the study of historically based painting and art.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...

A activity that examines how Native Americans were portrayed by artists in the sixteenth century, whose aim was to convey their appearance to a European audience, and thereby encourage investment in future New World explorations. By...

See how the creation of visual art in its many forms developed over the first half of the 19th century. In addition of the painters in the Hudson River School of Art, read about the beautification of natural spaces such as parks, and...

Take a one-minute tour through the history of music. Be a music critic and listen to a musical performance. Test your knowledge and play the musical matching game or be a music producer and do a re-mix. Feeling talented? Upload your...

Located in Scranton, PA. The Everhart Museum has extensive collections with an emphasis on natural history and the visual arts.

This site gives a breif history of art movements from Impressionism to Modernism, concentrating in America. There are also pages linked to key artists within each movement where you can also see their work.

Read about the history of Spain including other groups that lived there in the past, the Golden Age, the reign of Napoleon, the Spanish Civil War, and the establishment of democracy. Also looks at the makeup of the Spanish population,...

Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...

Expressionism described primarily in terms of visual art. A good history of the movement and its key artists.