ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB : 18th-Century
Art
These pages are maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet
Briar College, Virginia 24595 USA (phone: 804-381-6194 / fax: 804-381-6173). If you have
any comments, or suggestions for additional links, or know of other interesting sites,
please let me know: witcombe@sbc.edu. Online since
October 24, 1995
18th-CENTURY ART
- 18th-Century (Professor Hugh Lester, Tulane University)
- The Dizzying Grandeur of
Rococo (through the Jacques-Edouard
Berger Foundation)
- Gallery of
the Rococo 1700-1750 (Tigertail Virtual Museum)
- 18th Century
Architecture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of
European Architecture, Boston College)
- Castle Howard
visitor's guide, with a history
- George Washington's
Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens visitor's guide, with a tour
- Monticello, the
home of Thomas Jefferson
- Stratford Hall
Plantation (birthplace of Robert E. Lee)
- 18th Century Painting
(through Jeffery Howe's Digital
Archive of Art: Online images from Boston College), with links to:
- Artists in 18th-century Europe
and America (through Jim's Fine Art Collection)
- Rococo (part of the
site Periods in Art History,
Anne S. de Luengas, ITESM Campus Tampico)
- French and Italian Painting 18th
century, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington,
DC
- European
18th-Century Art, in The Minneapolis
Institute of Arts
- Rococo
Churches in Bavaria, in French (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
- Giambattista
Tiepolo with links to:
- Tiepolo
e la vita in villa, Arte e cultura nel Settecento veneto, with a link to a Virtual Picture Gallery
(English text):
- Canaletto
(through The WebMuseum)
- Artists in 18th-Century Italy (part of the site Parole e Immagini), with an Index of Artists and links to:
- 18th Century Artists (listed in the Galleria degli Immagini section of Città dell'Arte)
- Maurice-Quentin
de La Tour (Musée Antoine Lécuyer), in French - with a Quicktime Movie presentation!
- Painting in 18th-century France (through The WebMuseum), with links to:
- Painting in 18th-century England (through The WebMuseum), with links to:
- Neoclassicism (part
of the site Periods in Art
History, Anne S. de Luengas, ITESM Campus Tampico)
- Painting in the 18th century in other
countries (through The WebMuseum), with links
to:
- John Singleton Copley
(through The Early American
Review)
- The New Child: British Art and
the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830 (exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive,
University of California), with links to:
- The Jew As Other: A Century of
English Caricature, 1730-1830 (through The Library of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America)
- Art
and industry in 18th-century London English Silver 1680-1760 from the Alan and Simone
Hartman Collection (Christopher Hartop)
- The
William Blake Page, with links to:
- William
Blake's Life, with links to:
- The
William Blake Archive
- Tyger of Wrath:
William Blake (exhibition at the National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne) - a comprehensive website of 176 works
- William Hogarth and 18th-Century
Print Culture (exhibition at the Mary and Leigh
Block Gallery, Northwestern University)
- The William
Hogarth Archive, Founders' Library, University of Wales, Lampeter (Allen Samuels),
with 126 images, beginning here
- Hogarth and His Times:
Serious Comedy (exhibition at the Berkeley
Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, University of California)
- William
Hogarth (1697 - 1764) (through Haley
& Steele)
- Eighteenth-Century Artists (through Carol Gerten's Fine Art: Featured
Artists) [North Carolina mirror site]:
- Romanticism (part
of the site Periods in Art
History, Anne S. de Luengas, ITESM Campus Tampico)
- The Age of Enlightenment,
in paintings in French Museums, with links to:
- Elizabeth
Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), by Kevin J. Kelly
- Portraits of Polish Kings
by Marcelo Bacciarelli (1731-1818), with a link to the portraits (Ryszard
Kielczewski)
© Chris Witcombe