Research Links

Here is the link to the OhioLink catalogue. Through this site you can check out books online from college and university libraries throughout Ohio with your CCAD ID number.
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

Link to the Dartmouth Writing Programs site on writing art history papers. Great information about types of art history papers, pre-writing strategies, and writing strategies:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humanities/arthistory.shtml

Recommended Reading

The Lost Painting: The Search for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr

Vermeer: A View of Delft by Anthony Bailey

Movie: Girl with a Pearl Earring

E-Book Link

Here is the link for the text online at Google Books. This is a slightly different edition, with some different image reproductions, but generally has the same information.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Xd0CuzsPYJcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=seventeenth+century+art+and+architecture+ann+sutherland+harris#PPP1,M1

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Course Links

This is a section where I will post links to interesting sites related to the course content. Feel free to post comments on any of the things you see on these!

General Sites

Comprehensive list of links (by topic and artists): http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHbaroque.html
To hear some Baroque music clips: http://www.baroquemusic.org/

Italy
To watch a short video of the hanging of an Annibale Carracci exhibition check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18sarZakwo
For a video of some of Caravaggio's works set to music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXwbhssHTKk
For a clip from a documentary on Caravaggio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfjuiAXrUXE Met Museum essay on Caravaggio: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm
Borromini's San Carlo (short video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqdpNcFioM0&NR=1
BBC series the Power of Art with Simon Schama - Bernini episode (broken into multiple videos):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXR2YZxgDV4&feature=related

Flanders
Montage of Rubens' paintings set to music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THs1XgfroEc
Video of Rubens exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSR1PN0oks&feature=related
Met Museum essay on Rubens and Van Dyck:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rvd_p/hd_rvd_p.htm

Spain
Preview of Velazquez exhibition at the National Gallery, London:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hLtG4cKKrk&feature=related
Montage of work of Velazquez:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B95AMm_Zg54
Video of Las Meninas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8m5O76cAeo
Met Museum essay on Velazquez:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vela/hd_vela.htm

France
Short documentary on Versailles (2 parts):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93EhIGlVS0
Virtual tour of Versailles (in French):
http://www.chateauversailles.fr/fr/multimedia/visites-virtuelles/01160-chateau.html
Company that sells modern versions of Baroque/Louis XIV style furniture:
https://fe2.ccad.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.brocadehome.com
Met Museum essay on Poussin:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pous/hd_pous.htm

United Dutch Republic
Self-Portraits of Rembrandt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKc-EDHwGN8
Met Museum essay on Rembrandt: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rmbt/hd_rmbt.htm
Link to Frans Hals museum (virtual tour on the site): http://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/index_en.html
Montage of Vermeer works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L138tqsUzJYtube.com/watch?v=L138tqsUzJY
Met Museum essay on Vermeer: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/verm/hd_verm.htm
The Essential Vermeer site (everything about Vermeer): http://www.essentialvermeer.com/
Link to the Rijksmuseum (works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, etc.):
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/meesterwerken?lang=en

Links for fun:
Art History music video (very funny!): http://vimeo.com/9752986
Eric Spray's blog on redoing the masters: http://ericspray.blogspot.com/