Online Photos to Complement Course Content Photos

Advantages of using TravelPhotoBase.com (TPB) for the classroom and student study, all free of charge.

1) TPB is a collection of 115,000 original photos featuring art, decorative arts, architecture, history & wonders of the world photographed in hundreds of museums & dozen of countries.
2) Theme pages present topics in chronological, geographical & artistic context - not just a random list of photos. Discover how artists evolved or history unfolded.
3) TPB offers a more coherent photographic selection than websites like Wikipedia, Pinterest or Google image searches.
4) No cookies or tracking of users.
5) No advertising or commercial activity.
6) High quality, artistic images with detailed, researched captions.
7) TPB website is designed for maximum speed of operation.
8) Easy to link recommended pages to instructor's classroom notes or lesson plans.
9) TPB is designed to be a visual supplement to courses & materials.
10) TPB will consider creating custom online themes requested by instructors free of charge.

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Paintings by over 250 Artists Arrangement in grey & black painting by James Abbott McNeil Whistler at Musée d'Orsay. Paris, France Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch painting by Sir Henry Raeburn at National Gallery of Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland Self-portrait by Paul Gauguin at National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC
example:Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting by Vincent van Gogh at MoMA. New York, NY example: Marc Chagall I & the Village painting by Marc Chagall at MoMA. New York, NY
Impressionist Art (1860-1880) Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning painting by Claude Monet at J. Paul Getty Museum Center. Malibu, CA Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise painting by Auguste Renoir at Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL Snow at Llouveciennes painting by Alfred Sisley at The Phillips Collection. Washington, DC
Art Nouveau Movement (1899-1910) Salon des Cent/XXme Exposition poster by Alphonse Mucha at Nelson-Atkins Museum. Kansas City, MO Bench by Hector Guimard at Musée d'Orsay. Paris, France Porcelain vase by Georges de Feure for Limoges of France at Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH
History of Sculpture / Sculptors Head from statue of daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten of quartzite at Museum Ägyptischer Kunst. Munich, Germany Symbolic Skeletal Representation of Death linden wood carving set of Four Last Things from southern Germany at Bode Museum. Berlin, Germany Detail of Snake Tree sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle at Angers Fine Arts Museum. Angers, France
example: Roman Emperor Busts Roman marble head of Emperor Augustus at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA example:Augutus Saint-Gaudens Standing Abraham Lincoln statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Lincoln Park. Chicago, IL
Architecture / Architects Disney Concert Hall. Los Angeles, CA New York City Landmark Buildings Art Deco winged torch of Chrysler Building. New York, NY
Gothic Churches & Buildings Facade of Chartres Cathedral. Chartres, France Baroque Churches Detail of frescoes by Johann Jakob Zeiller on dome of Ettal Benedictine Abbey. Ettal village, Germany
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Chronology Mackintosh designed oval medallion on rear facade at Scotland Street School. Glasgow, Scotland Antoni Gaudí Chronology Chimneys like space aliens atop Casa Milà. Barcelona, Spain
Louis Henri Sullivan, Architectural Chronology National Farmer's Bank of Owatonna. Owatonna, MN Frank Lloyd Wright Chronology Frederick C. Robie House. Chicago, IL
Arts & Crafts Movement (1880s-1930s) George White & Anna Gunn Marston residence arts & crafts dining room. San Diego, CA Roycroft version of reclining Morris chair at Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum. East Aurora, NY Silver & enamel fruit stand by Charles Robert Ashbee of Guild of Handicraft of London, England at Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, PA
Roycroft Chronology (1890s-1930s) in Photos Roycroft Campus Powerhouse Visitor Center. East Aurora, NY Seahorse andirons of living room fireplace at Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum. East Aurora, NY Roycrofter magazine at Roycroft Campus Powerhouse. East Aurora, NY
Decorative Arts & Antiques Crystal toilette table & chair by L'Escalier de Cristal of Paris under Marie-Jeanne-Rosalie Desarnaud-Charpentier at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Decorative Arts Master Index Ivory comb with miniature portraits from Northern France at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
History of Furniture Art Deco sideboard designed by Jean Curot & made by Ernest Thill, shown at International Exposition for Decorative Arts & Modern Industry Paris 1925 at National Museum of History & Art. Luxembourg, Luxembourg Lighting Devices & Art Lamps Bird-shaped chandelier by Albert Cheuret of Paris, France at Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas, TX
Clocks Bacchanal clock by Joseph Hilger of Paris at Petit Palace Museum. Paris, France Glass Arts Iridescent Johann Loetz sweetmeat jar with bats at Milan Historical Museum. Milan, OH
Ceramics Arts Earthenware vase with Lone Elk, Sioux by Matthew Andrew Daly of Rookwood Pottery Co. of Cincinnati at Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, OH Meissen porcelain Meissen porcelain plate copied from Japanese original with ocean wave & net pattern for client August the Strong at Meissen porcelain museum at Lustheim Palace. Munich, Germany
Silver & Metal Arts Silver teapot by Christopher Dresser for Brian Asquith of Derbyshire, England at Pinakothek der Moderne. Munich, Germany Textile Design, Types, Looms, Fashion, Carpets, Quilts Eleonora of Toledo & Her Son painting by Agnolo Bronzino at Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI
Fashion in Portraits by Century Portrait of a man attrib. Bartholomaüs Bruyn of Werden at Beaux-Arts Museum. Lyon, France The Cheater painting by Georges de la Tour at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Portrait of painter Paulette Martin a founder of Museum Angladon, Jacques Doucet Collection. Avignon, France
World Art History Passage tomb entrance guarded by Megalithic-carved swirl at Newgrange. Ireland Egyptian Art of Antiquity (5000 BCE - 100 CE) Egyptian bronze & alabaster ibis mummy coffin at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX
Ancient Greek Art & History (6thC - 1stC BCE) Greek bronze mirror with Medusa from South Italy at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA Roman Empire Art & History (1stC BCE - 476) Roman mosaic from villa at Daphne near Antioch at RISD Museum. Providence, RI
Cycladic Culture Art, People of Aegean Islands (c3300-1100 BCE) Cycladic marble folded-arm female figures at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA Mesopotamia, Babylon, Assyria Art & Cuneiform (883-333 BCE) Upper section corner details of Ishtar Gate at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany
Christian Art & Saints Last Supper stained glass window from The Netherlands at Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI St Jerome in His Study painting by Jan van Eyck at Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, MI Sacrifice of Isaac painting by Marc Chagall at Chagall Museum. Nice, France
African Art & Cultural Items King's Ceremonial Hat from Cameroon at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston, TX Asian Art & Cultural Items Netsuke of monkey in coils of snake from Japan at Asian Art Museum. San Francisco, CA
Pacific Art & Cultural Items Basketry mask from Prince Alexander Mountains of New Guinea at de Young Museum. San Francisco, CA Native American Arts Woman giving birth wooden first nations mask by Mungo Martin of Fort Rupert at Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA
American Western Art Cavalryman's Breakfast on the Plains painting by Frederic Remington at Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Fort Worth, TX American Civil War History Second California Cavalry Civil War "Hardee" hat at California State Military Museum. Sacramento, CA
International Expositions Eiffel Tower between tall German & USSR pavilions seen from Trocadero at Exposition Paris 1937. Paris, France Bonnie Prince Charlie & Jacobite History Sampler detail by young girl shows English red coat slaying a kilted Jacobite at Culloden at Culloden Moor Visitor Centre. Culloden Moor, Scotland
History of Scotland History of France History of Germany US Presidential History
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