MODERN WESTERN WORLD, II: Revolutions
REVOLUTIONS
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- The Western Tradition, 37: The American Revolution and 38: The American Republic; Tea, Taxes, and the American Revolution (Crash Course World History) [12 minutes]; Enlightenment and Revolution, 1550-1789, 4: The American Revolution, pages 640-45 (McDougal Littell); and Atlantic World and American Revolution (McGraw-Hill: Interactive Map Quiz). Optional: The American Revolution (McGraw-Hill Interactive Map); LecturePoint: U.S. History, 6: Toward Revolution and Independence (1750-1783) and 7: Origins of the Constitution (Cengage); Triangular Trade Routes (Houghton Mifflin); Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS); A Biography of America, 4: The Coming of Independence and 5: A New System of Government (Annenberg Media); Learn about the American Revolution Map traces the major campaigns in shorter [5 minutes] and longer versions [8 minutes] (Life Videopedia); The American Revolution, 1775-1781 (McGraw-Hill: Interactive Maps); The American Revolution (Mapping History); and The Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 and The American Revolution: nine maps (Norton iMaps).
DOCUMENTS
Declaration of Independence (1776) -- Interactive John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents (Library of Congress) and Trumbull (Architect of the Capital: Exploring Capital Hill).
Constitution (1789) -- The Ratification of the Constitution, 1787-1790 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Constitutionalism (Mapping History); Creating the United States (Library of Congress); Ratification of the Constitution (Norton iMaps); and Checks and Balances (Prentice-Hall).
JEFFERSON
Jean-Antoine Houdon -- Bust of Thomas Jefferson (1789). Optional: Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) (MMOA).
Architecture -- Monticello and University of Virginia (Essential Architecture). Optional: Mr. Jefferson's Village (Ashley Hicks); The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson (Digital Imaging Project); Thomas Jefferson and Neoclassical Architecture in America (Saylor Foundation) [8 minutes]; Monticello and the University of Virginia, Virginia (UNESCO World Heritage Sites); Thomas Jefferson: The Education of an Architect (Archiving Early America); Monticello (home page); The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson (UVA); and Thomas Jefferson Memorial (Essential Architecture).
WASHINGTON
Houdon -- Rediscovering an American Icon: Houdon's Washington (1785-88) (Colonial Williamsburg).
Gilbert Stuart -- George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait, 1796): Smarthistory and Smithsonian Institute. Optional: Picturing America; and Gilbert Stuart: Making Faces interactive (MMOA).
FRENCH REVOLUTION: Republic
FRENCH REVOLUTION -- The Western Tradition, 39: The Death of the Old Regime and 40: The French Revolution [watch through minute 13.00]; The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815, 1: The French Revolution Begins and 2: Revolution Brings Reform and Terror, pages 648-62 (McDougal Littell); The French Revolution (Crash Course World History) [12 minutes]; and the La Marseillaise (French national anthem): lyrics and Casablanca scene (1942) [3 minutes]. Optional: The French Revolution (Norton iMaps); The French Revolution: Lectures 11-15 (The History Guide); The French Revolution: four parts (Khan Academy) [17-23.30 minutes each]; The Reign of Terror (Prentice-Hall: Interactive Map); French Revolution (The Open University); and The French Revolution in 23 minutes (HipHughesHistory).
DAVID -- Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat (Smarthistory); and The Oath of the Tennis Court, Marie Antoinette on the Way to the Guillotine, and Portrait of General Bonaparte (WGA). Optional: David (WGA and WebMuseum); The Death of Marat (Nora Buñuel: Live with art); Oath of the Horatii (Boston College: Neo-Classicism and the French Revolution); The Death of Marat: Web page and video [60 minutes] (BBC: The Power of Art with Simon Schama); The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (Smarthistory, WGA, and Learner: Art Through Time); and The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Smarthistory).
VIGÉE LE BRUN -- Vigée Le Brun's Madame Perregaux (Smarthistory) and Self-Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie (WGA). Optional: Vigée Le Brun (WGA); Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Hapsburg, Queen of France, and Her Children and Marie-Antoinette with the Rose (Google Art); and Eighteenth Century Women Artists: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (Farber).
FRENCH REVOLUTION: Empire
FRENCH EMPIRE -- The Western Tradition, 40: The French Revolution [begin at minute 13.00]; The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815, 3: Napoleon Forges an Empire and 4: Napoleon's Empire Collapses, pages 663-71 (McDougal Littell); Napoleon's Empire (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations); and Europe and the Superior Being: Napoleon (The History Guide). Optional: Napoleonic Europe, 1799-1812, Napoleon’s Empire in 1812, and Russian Campaign of 1812 (McGraw-Hill); The French Revolution and Napoleon (Norton iMaps); Napoleon: seven parts (Khan Academy) [13-23 minutes each]; and Napoleon (PBS), using Goya's paintings and drawings.
THE ART OF NAPOLEON -- The Art of the Western World, 6: An Age of Reason, An Age of Passion [minute 21.30 to 28.15]; The rise, the glory, the fall: the Empire seen through the eyes of great artists; and Arch de Triomph (Essential Architecture). Optional: Napoleonic Paintings (BBC/Open University); Arc de Triomphe and The Louvre Museum (Essential Architecture); Who’s Who in Portraits 2: Napoleon and French Rulers (Abrahams); and Canova, Paolina Borghese as Venus Victorious (Smarthistory).
Jacques-Louis David -- Optional: WGA: biography and E. B. Wilson, "Jacques-Louis David," Smithsonian, 29/5 (1998).
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801) -- WGA and Smarthistory.
Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine (1805-07) -- WGA.
Napoleon in his Study (1812) -- WGA and Smarthistory; and Optional: NGA Kids.
Antoine-Jean Gros -- Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa (1804) (Smarthistory). Optional: Works (WGA): Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole (1796) and Napoleon Bonaparte on the Battlefield of Eylau (1807).
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne (1806) (Learner: Art Through Time). Optional: Great Works: Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, 1806 (The Independent) and Citizens and Kings exhibition (Andrew Graham-Dixon, 2008) [8.30 minutes: stay until the end].
Francisco Goya
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812) -- WGA.
The Third of May, 1808 (1814) -- WGA; Smarthistory; and How to Look at a Work of Art: Third of May, 1808, Francisco de Goya: description, interpretation, and [4 minutes]. Optional: Goya's 3rd Of May 1808 (BBC: Private Life Of A Masterpiece) [46 minutes]; Learner: Art Through Time; Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, 7: Madrid: Goya, Third of May and The Colossus (1996) [minute 5.52-8.46]; Los desastres de la guerra (1810-1815) (WGA); and Goya’s 2nd May, 1808 (1814), Behind Goya's Eyes, 2nd May, 1808 (1814), Goya’s Disasters of War (c.1810-15), Goya and Dix's Scenes of Execution, Disasters of War (c. 1810-15) and Inside's Goya' Eye (Abrahams).
ISMS
INDUSTRIALISM
INDUSTRIALISM -- The Western Tradition, 41: The Industrial Revolution and 42: The Industrial World; Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution (Crash Course World History) [11 minutes]; The Industrial Revolution, 1700-1900, 1: The Beginnings of Industrialization, 2: Manchester, and 3: Industrialization Spreads, pages 714-33 (McDougal Littell); and Why the Industrial Revolution happened in Britain (BBC). Optional: The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England (The History Guide); The Day the World Took Off: The Roots of the Industrial Revolution: information and six films [50 minutes each]; Industrial Europe, c. 1850 (McGraw-Hill: Interactive Map Quiz); The First Industrial Revolution and The Industrialization of Europe around 1850 (Norton iMaps); Industrial Europe ca. 1850 (McGraw-Hill); and World History: The Industrial Revolution (Hip Hughes History) [27 minutes].
Population -- European Population Growth and Relocation, 1820-1900 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations) and Growth of Cities 1500-1800 (McGraw-Hill: Palmer).
Industry -- Industrialization of Europe by 1914 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Industry in Europe, 1870 (McDougal Littell: Animated History).
Railways -- J. M. W. Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844) (Smarthistory). Optional: Full steam ahead: J. M. W. Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (The Guardian: The Story of British Art).
SLAVE TRADE -- The Atlantic Slave Trade (Crash Course World History) [11 minutes]; The Slave Trade, c. 1450-1800 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations); Josiah Wedgwood, Anti-slavery Medallion (1787, British Museum); and J. M. W. Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840) (Smarthistory). Optional: The African Slave Trade, 1440-1867 (Norton iMaps); African Slave Trade, c. 1780 (McGraw-Hill); British Anti-slavery (BBC); and The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain (The Victorian Web).
ROMANTICISM: Art
ROMANTICISM
--
The Western Tradition, 43: Revolution and Romantics;
Romanticism (Smarthistory);
The Romantic Era (The History Guide);
and
Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West, 1789-1900, 4: Revolutions in the
Arts, pages 698-703 (McDougal Littell).
Optional:
The Romantic Movement (HistoryWorld);
An Introduction to
Nineteenth Century Art (Facos);
Romanticism
(BBC: In Our Time) [45-minute audio];
and
Russian Painting during the Age of Romanticism (Dartmouth College);
The French Academic Tradition, French
Romantic Painting, and the substyle Orientalism [27 minutes],
and
Romanticism, Part 1
[33 minutes]
and
Part 2: Walpole, Ruskin, Turner, Goya, and Gericault
(Mencher) [21 minutes]; WebMuseum;
and
NY Institute of Technology.
Study at least three artists (not just art works):
COLE (American) -- Thomas Cole (WGA). Optional: MMOA and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (1828) (Smarthistory).
The Course of Empire (1833-36) -- Wikipedia and The Course of Empire series interactive tours (Explore Thomas Cole).
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm -- The Oxbow (1836) -- Smarthistory and Picturing America on Screen. Optional: Picturing America; The Oxbow interactive tour (Explore Thomas Cole); and WGA.
CONSTABLE (British) -- John Constable (WGA). Optional: WebMuseum; The Roots of Modernism (Plus Trees and Clouds): John Constable (Haber); and Hampstead Heath (c. 1820, The Fitzwilliam Museum).
The Hay Wain (1821) -- WGA and Smarthistory. Optional: National Gallery: voted the second best painting in Britain (2005).
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831) -- Smarthistory. Optional: Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds: 1823 and c. 1825; and Getting It Right: Constable's Salisbury Cathedral: Two Versions Reunited (Haber).
DELACROIX (French) -- Eugene Delacroix (WebMuseum). Optional: WGA: biography; Delacroix (The Open University); and Painted Into Immortality: Dante and Virgil on a Hellish Boat Ride (Three Pipe Problem).
Scene of the Massacre at Chios (1824) -- WGA and Smarthistory.
The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) -- WGA and Smarthistory.
Liberty Leading the People (1830) -- WGA and Smarthistory. Optional: Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People (BBC video); Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix: An Accidental Icon? (CED); and Delacroix Liberty painting defaced in Louvre (BBC).
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840) -- WGA.
FRIEDRICH (German) -- Caspar David Friedrich (WebMuseum) and Caspar David Friedrich (Andrew Graham-Dixon) [9 minutes]. Optional: WGA: biography; Abbey among Oak Trees (1809-10), The Lone Tree (1822), and Woman at the Window (1822), and A Walk at Dusk (c. 1830-35) (Smarthistory); Caspar David Friedrich (Boston College) and Caspar David Friedrich and the primordial landscape (Three Pipe Problem); Friedrich (Artble); Goya, Friedrich and Romanticism: Reification of Nature (Philolog); and Moonlight Becomes You (Haber).
Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar) (1808) -- WGA.
Monk by the Sea (1809) -- WGA and Smarthistory. Optional: Wikipedia.
Sea of Ice (1824) -- WGA.
GERICAULT (French) -- Théodore Géricault (WGA).
The Raft of the Medusa (1818-19) -- WGA and Smarthistory. Optional: Christine Riding, "'The Fatal Raft,'" History Today, 53/2 (2003).
A Madwoman and Compulsive Gambler (c. 1822) -- WGA and Portraits of the Insane (Smarthistory).
GOYA (Spanish) -- Francisco de Goya (WGA). Optional: Goya: The "Black Paintings" from Quinta del sordo (Archive); WebMuseum; Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) and the Spanish Enlightenment (MMOA); The Family of Charles IV (1800) (Smarthistory); Exile on Main Street: Goya's Last Works (Haber); and Goya's Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta (The Minneapolis Museum of Arts).
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799) -- WGA. Optional: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters,' plate from Los Caprichos, 1799 etching (The Fitzwilliam Museum) and Los Caprichos (1797-1799) (WGA).
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons (1821-23) -- Smarthistory and "Black Paintings" in the Quinta del Sordo (1820-1823) (WGA).
INGRES (French) -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (WGA). Optional: Paintings (WGA); Sex, Cash, and a Lot of Class: J. A. D. Ingres: Images of an Epoch (Haber); and Ingres’ Comtesse d’Haussonville (1845) (Abrahams).
La Grande Odalisque (1814) -- WGA and Smarthistory.
Apotheosis of Homer (1827) -- WGA and Smarthistory.
Princess de Broglie (1851-53) -- WGA.
TURNER (British) -- John Mallord William Turner (WebMuseum). Optional: WGA: biography; Turner's The Harbour of Dieppe (Smarthistory) and Painting as Extreme Sport: J. M. W. Turner (Haber).
Snow Storm, Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812) -- WGA.
The Grand Canal, Venice (1835) -- WGA.
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up (1838) -- WGA and National Gallery: beyond the National Gallery (London) details, follow these two links on the page: "The Greatest Painting in Britain" and "Special Features: Past Painting of the Month: Heroine of Trafalgar" (for several artistic details).
ROMANTICISM: Music
BEETHOVEN (German) -- Ludwig Beethoven (BBC: The Mark Steel Lectures) [30 minutes]. Optional: The Genius of Beethoven [2 hours] and Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze (1902) (Smarthistory).
The Ninth Symphony (1824) -- The Ninth Symphony (Multimedia Beethoven Online Encyclopaedia); Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, text and audio [8.30 minutes] (NPR's Performance Today: Milestones of the Millennium); and the final moments of the 4th movement of Bernstein's historic presentation of the 9th Symphony (1989).
Study at least three of the following artists:
BERLIOZ (French) -- Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique (1830): information (Wikipedia) and 5th movement: Songe d'une Nuit de Sabbat [10 minutes]. Optional: Music Fueled by Desire (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra's Keeping Score) and Symphonie Fantastique (The Hector Berlioz Website).
CHOPIN (Polish) -- Fryderyk Chopin, Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35, 3rd movement: Funeral March (1839) -- information (BBC and Wikipedia) and performance [9.30 minutes].
LISZT (Austrian) -- Franz Liszt (BBC), Trois études de concert, No. 3: Un sospiro ("A sigh," 1845-49) [4.30 minutes]. Optional: Three Concert Études (Wikipedia).
TCHAIKOVSKY (Russian) -- Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture (1880): information (Wikipedia) and performance [15 minutes].
WAGNER (German) -- Richard Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries (1870): information (Wikipedia) and performances: BBC Orchestra [10 minutes] and Apocalypse Now [4 minutes]. Optional: Synopsis (The Metropolitan Opera) and What's Opera, Doc? [7 minutes].
LIBERALISM
REVOLUTIONS, 1815-48 -- Europe at the time of the Congress of Vienna, 1815-1848 (The Map as History); The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815, 4: The Congress of Vienna, pages 672-75 and Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West, 1789-1900, 2: Europe Faces Revolutions, pages 678-80 and 687-891(McDougal Littell); Revolutions of National Independence in the Atlantic World, 1776-1829 and Civil Unrest and Revolutions in Europe, 1819-1848 (Norton iMaps). Optional: The Congress of Vienna (Norton iMaps); and Europe, 1815, European Revolutions, 1848, and South America after Independence (McGraw-Hill).
SOCIALISM -- Capitalism and Socialism (Crash Course World History) [14 minutes]; The Industrial Revolution, 1700-1900, 4: Reforming the Industrial World, pages 734-41 (McDougal Littell); and The Communist Manifesto illustrated by Cartoons [8 minutes]. Optional: Reflections on Karl Marx, The Utopian Socialists: Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen and Saint-Simon (The History Guide) and Karl Marx (BBC: The Mark Steel Lectures) [30 minutes].
LIBERALISM -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy): Introduction, Biography, and On Liberty and March of Democracy (Maps of War) "See 4,000 years of democracy in 90 seconds." Optional: The Condensed Version of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (Squashed Philosophers); J. S. Mill, Autobiography: "A Crisis in my Mental History" [12 minutes]; John Stuart Mill -- On Liberty (2 parts) [20 minutes]; and John Stuart Mill: The Liberal Tradition [30 minutes].
NATIONALISM
NATIONALISM -- The Western Tradition, 44: The Age of the Nation States and Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West, 1789-1900, 3: Nationalism: Italy and Germany, pages 692-97 (McDougal Littell). Optional: Major Nationalities of Eastern Europe, 1800-1914 (Pearson: Audio Guided Tour); European Language Groups, c. 1850 and Europe, 1871 (McGraw-Hill); and Centers of Industry, 1871 (Prentice-Hall); European Colonies in Latin America (McGraw-Hill); and The Age of Ideologies (3): The World of Auguste Comte (The History Guide).
AMERICA -- An Age of Democracy and Progress, 1815-1914, 3: War and Expansion in the United States, pages 758-61 (McDougal Littell); U. S. Expansion (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations); and Westward Expansion (1790-1861) (The Map as History). Optional: LecturePoint: U.S. History, 15: Civil War (1861-1865) (Cengage); American Civil War (McGraw-Hill); A Biography of America, 11: The Civil War (Annenberg Media); Slavery and Emancipation (McGraw-Hill): see "In Motion" for five maps; Territorial Expansion of the United States 1783-1853 and The U.S. Civil War, Parts I and II (Mapping History); The Civil War, 1860-1865 (HippoCampus); The Civil War active maps (Alan Brinkley); The American Civil War (US Military Academy); and A New Birth of Freedom (1861-1865 and Reconstruction (1865-1877) (Norton iMaps).
Study at least one artwork:
Horatio Greenough, Washington as Zeus (1840) -- Washington as Zeus (1840). Optional: Smithsonian Legacies; Worst Statue of George Washington Ever (When Art History Goes BAD); The Colossal Zeus Statue of Pheidias (Lahanas); and Man is the Measure of All Things (Farber).
Emanuel Leutze
Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) -- Smarthistory and MMOA interactive. Optional: Picturing America; What's wrong with this painting? (Washington Crossing Historic Park); Emanuel Leutze's Symbolic Scene of Washington Crossing the Delaware (Edsitement); and Teen Screens: "Kremlin America" (MMOA) [3.30 minutes].
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1862) -- Explore Capital Hill (Architect of the Capital). Optional: Westward Expansion: Leutze video (Smithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History).
Constantino Brumidi, The Apotheosis of Washington (1865) -- Explore Capital Hill (Architect of the Capital). Optional: The Apotheosis of Washington: Brumidi's Fresco & Beyond (UVA); Frieze of American History (1978-1953) and Brumidi Corridors (Architect of the Capital: Explore Capital Hill); and U.S. Capital (Essential Architecture).
ITALY -- Unification of Italy and Germany (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations) and The Vittoriano: Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II (Essential Architecture). Optional: Unification of Italy (McGraw-Hill); Italian Unification and German Unification, 1815-1871 (Norton iMaps); The Unification of Italy (Pearson); Unifying Italy (Pearson: Audio Guided Tour); Italian Unification (Amit Mendelsohn); and History of Italy: Towards the nation state and Kingdom of Italy (HistoryWorld).
Giuseppe Verdi, Nabucco: Va, pensiero (Fly, Thought, 1842) -- performance [5.30 minutes]; and The Top 10 Politically-Charged Moments in Verdi's Operas (WQXR: Operavore). Optional: Va, pensiero (Wikipedia).
GERMANY -- Unification of Germany (McGraw-Hill); Anton von Werner's The Imperial Coronation of Wilhelm I in Versailles on January 18, 1871 (Wikipedia); and Siegessaeule Victory Column Goldelse (1864, Berlin) and Basilica of the Sacré Cœur (1876-1912, Montmartre, Paris) (Essential Architecture). Optional: History of Germany: 19th century and 1871-1914 (HistoryWorld); Unification of Germany, 1865-1871 (Pearson: Audio Guided Tour); The Unification of Germany (Wadsworth); Imperial Germany, 1871 (Bereznay); The German Question, 1815-1871 and Unification of Germany (McGraw-Hill); The Road to National Unification (Raffael Scheck's notes for his lectures and book on Germany and Europe, 1871-1945); and Ecliptique: patrimoine 2: Sacre-Coeur, Paris.
IMPRESSIONISM
ART -- Becoming Modern (Smarthistory) and The Art of the Western World, 7: A Fresh View -- Impressionism and Post-Impressionism [60 minutes]. Optional: Realism and Impressionism (NY Institute of Technology) and The Rise of Modernism: Art of the Later 19th Century (Online Study Guide for Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective).
ARCHITECTURE -- Study at least one building: Paris Opera (1874), Neuschwanstein (1880, Germany); The Reichstag (1884, Berlin); Statue of Liberty (1884, NYC); Eiffel Tower (1887, Paris); Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building (1891, St. Louis, MO); and Biltmore Estates/Vanderbilt Residence (1895, Asheville, NC). Optional: 19th C Technology and Architecture [15 minutes] and Paris during the 19th Century Baron Haussmann, Charles Garnier and Gustave Caillebotte (Mencher) [20 minutes]; Eiffel Tower (Essential Architecture); and Paris Opera (Smarthistory).
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Early Photography (Smarthistory). Optional: The other photographers in Smarthistory.
Study each ISM (art and music) and at least one artist from each ISM:
REALISM -- Optional: Realism in France 19th Century, Part 1: Daumier and Courbet (Mencher) [28 minutes].
Rosa Bonheur (French) -- Plowing in the Nivernais (1849) (Smarthistory) and The Horse Fair (1851-52). Optional: WGA and other paintings at Smarthistory.
Gustave Courbet (French) -- Realism (Smarthistory) and Burial at Ornans (1849-50) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: WGA; WebMuseum; and other paintings at Smarthistory.
Jean-Francois Millet (French) -- The Gleaners (1857) (Smarthistory). Optional: WebMuseum; Behind the Picture: No.1 Les Glaneuses (The Gleaners) by François Millet, 1857 (St. Andrews); and other paintings at Smarthistory.
Edgar Degas (French) -- The Dance Class (1874) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: Other paintings at Smarthistory and WGA; Impressionism: Degas and Color Theory (Mencher) [32 minutes]; and L’Absinthe (1875-6) and Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1879-81) (Abrahams).
Édouard Manet (French) -- Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) and Olympia (1863) (Smarthistory). Optional: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) and other paintings at Smarthistory; Realism in France in the 19th Century, Part 2: Manet (Mencher) [17.30 minutes]; WebMuseum; Artble; and Olympia (1863), Part 1 and Le Déjeuner and Mlle. V. Simply Explained, and Titian’s Venus (c.1548-9) and Manet’s Olympia (1863) (Abrahams).
IMPRESSIONISM -- The Art Story; Impressionism: Color in Art (Artyfactory); and Impressionism, How the Impressionists Got Their Name, and Haussmann the Demolisher and the Creation of Modern Paris (Smarthistory). Optional: The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874 (Artchive); WebMuseum; EyconArt; The Impressionists with Tim Marlow [60 minutes]; Impressionism: A Circle of Friends (WetCanvas); Waldemar Januszczak: The Impressionists (BBC: Your Paintings) [6 minutes]; and The Impressionists (BBC: Richard Armitage).
Gustave Caillebotte (French) -- Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: Other paintings at Smarthistory and WGA.
Mary Cassatt (American) -- In the Lodge (1878) (Smarthistory and WGA) and The Child's Bath (1893) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: Other paintings at Smarthistory and WGA; and Impressionism Mary Cassatt (Mencher) [17.30 minutes].
Claude Monet (French) -- Impression, Sunrise (1872) (WGA and WebExhibits) and Water Lilies (1918-26). Optional: Other paintings at Smarthistory and WGA; Impressionism: Monet (Mencher) [26 minutes]; WebMuseum; MMOA; Claude Monet: The Rouen Cathedral Series (Artyfactory); Living Color: Claude Monet and Monet's Finish: Claude Monet: Late Work (Haber); Monet's Rouen Cathedral (Columbia U.); Color: Warm & Cool and Linear & Aerial Perspective (The Minneapolis Museum of Art); and other paintings at Smarthistory.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French) -- Moulin de la Galette (1876) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: Other paintings at Smarthistory and WGA; and Impressionism: Rodin (Mencher) [33 minutes].
POST-IMPRESSIONISM -- The Art Story and Post Impressionism: The Roots of Modern Art (Artyfactory).
Paul Cézanne (French) -- Red Rock (c. 1895) (Smarthistory) or The Card Players (1890-92) (WGA). Optional: Other paintings at Smarthistory and WGA; Cezanne's Astonishing Apples interactive (MMOA); 19th C Post Impressionism Cezanne (Mencher) [11 minutes]; and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, 8: Paris: Cezanne, The Bathers (1994) [through minute 3.22].
Paul Gauguin (French) -- Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: Other paintings at Smarthistory and WGA; Paul Gauguin (Mencher) [17 minutes]; and Paul Cézanne: The Château at Médan (1880) (Artyfactory).
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch) -- Optional: WGA; Vincent van Gogh (Mencher) [26.30 minutes]; and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, 4: Amsterdam: Van Gogh (1994) [minute 6.43-9.20].
Self-Portraits -- Vincent van Gogh: A History in Self Portraits (Artyfactory); Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portraits (WebMuseum); Who am I? Self-Portraits in Art and Writing (National Gallery of Art); and Van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: Self-Portraits in Chronological Order (WGA); Self-Portraits (Vincent van Gogh Gallery); The Self-Portraits (Vincent); Van Gogh Self-Portrait (1887, DIA) [3 minutes] and Portraits: Van Gogh and Whistler [4.30 minutes] (Detroit Institute of Art); Van Gogh's Letters (WebExhibit); Doctor My Eyes: Cézanne to van Gogh: The Collection of Dr. Gachet and The Passion Without the Color: Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings (Haber); and Margaret Drabble on Vincent van Gogh: 'It is a hard road ahead and he knows it' (The Guardian).
Starry Night (1889) -- MMOA and Artyfactory. Optional: A Brief Understanding of Three Starry Nights (The Vincent van Gogh Gallery); Van Gogh's Starry Night recreated in dominoes - video (Guardian) [2 minutes]; WGA; Google Art; and Vincent.
Wheat Field with Crows (1889) -- WGA and Wheat Field with Crows (Simon Schama's Power of Art). Optional: Vincent van Gogh: The Paintings: Wheat Field (a.k.a., Wheat Field with Crows).
Others --The Bedroom, Sunflowers, and Wheat Field with Cypresses (Google Art); and Van Gogh, Sunflowers (BBC: Private Life of a Masterpiece).
Auguste Rodin (French) -- The Gates of Hell (1880-90) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: WGA and The Burghers of Calais (1884-95).
Georges Seurat (French) -- A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: Other paintings at Smarthistory; WGA; and 19th C Post Impressionism Seurat (Mencher) [11.30 minutes].
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French) -- At the Moulin Rouge (1893-95) (Smarthistory and WGA). Optional: Other paintings at WGA.
MUSIC: Impressionist -- Study at least one musical piece:
Erik Satie (French) -- Erik Satie, Les Six & the Café Culture, with portrait by Picasso (1920) (Minnesota Public Radio).
Gymnopédies (1888) -- information (Wikipedia) and Blood, Sweat and Tears, Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie (1st and 2nd Movements) (1968) [1 minute], from the full Gymnopédies [9 minutes].
Claude Debussy (French) -- Debussy's Paris: Art, Music, & Sounds of the City (Smith College Museum of Art).
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894) -- information (Wikipedia) and performance [13 minutes] (Leopold Stokowski and the London Symphony Orchestra).
Clair de lune (1905) -- Suite bergamasque, 3rd movement
(Piano Society):
information
(Wikipedia) and
performance [4.30 minutes] or
as the conclusion to
Ocean's Eleven (2001) [5 minutes].
RUSSIA
I
TOLSTOY, I -- The Western Tradition, 45: A New Public; An Age of Democracy and Progress, 1815-1914, 1: Democratic Reform and Activism, pages 744-50 and 761-4: Nineteenth-Century Progress (McDougal Littell); Garnier's Paris Opéra and Carpeaux's Dance (Smarthistory); Leo Tolstoy (Books and Writers); and Images of Tolstoy. Optional: An Age of Democracy and Progress, 1815-1914, 2: Self-Rule for British Colonies, pages 751-57 and The Age of Imperialism, 1850-1914, 3: Europeans Claim Muslim Lands, 4: British Imperialism in India, and 5: Imperialism in Southeast Asia, pages 786-99 (McDougal Littell); and The Last Station (2009): review (Roger Ebert); Tolstoy (BBC: In Our Time) [45-minute audio].
Ilya Repin -- The Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) and Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia (1880-83) (Smarthistory); Ilya Repin, Portrait of Leo Tolstoy and Barge Haulers on the Volga (Smarthistory). Optional: Nineteenth-Century Russian Art: "Ideological Realism" (Dartmouth College).
II
TOLSTOY, II -- Tolstoy's estate at Yasnaya Polyana (Wikipedia); Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana [2 minutes]; and The Big Read Promo [6 minutes]. Optional: The Art of Russia, II: Roads to Revolution (BBC: Andrew Graham-Dixon) [60 minutes].
III
DOSTOEVSKY -- The Western Tradition, 46: Fin de Siècle; Mass Society in an "Age of Progress," 1874-1891 timeline; Dostoevsky (Books and Writers); Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Peter Ustinov (Peter Ustinov's Russia, Vol 4: Dissent, 1986) [7 minutes]; and Monty Python: The Spanish Inquisition [9 minutes]. Optional: The Soviet film of The Brothers Karamazov (1969) curiously substitutes another story for Dostoevsky's original "The Grand Inquisitor" scene [8 minutes]; The Grand Inquisitor: a clever short story drawing loosely on Dostoevsky's parable [22 minutes]; and The Existentialist Frame of Mind (The History Guide).
MUSIC: Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain (1867), orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov (1886) -- information (Los Angeles Philharmonic) and performance (Disney's Fantasia) [12 minutes].
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874), orchestrated by Maurice Ravel (1922) -- information (Good Music Guide) and performance: "Promenade" (Alan Gampel, 2011) [to minute 1.30 of the 20-minute session for the opening movement]. Optional: full performances: London Philharmonia Orchestra (1964) [33 minutes] and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's live performance (1971): visual ("Promenade" and "The Gnome") and recording [44 minutes].
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