This slide survey based upon a newly published guide provides information on more than thirty-five highlights from the Gallery's collections. Interspersed with commentaries on single objects are "Master Class" spreads, which offer in-depth looks at specific themes, artists, and works of art. Image CD with 80 images and 66-page book in English, French, and Spanish
(Slideset version with 80 slides also available)

One of the greatest landscape painters of all times, Joseph Mallord William Turner rendered the subtle effects of light and atmosphere in revolutionary ways. A barber's son, he entered the Royal Academy art school at age fourteen and became, over the course of six decades, the leading British artist of his time. This overview of Turner's career and influences includes footage of locations important to him in Wales, England, and Switzerland, and readings from writers and artists of the era, including John Ruskin and Lord Byron. (30 mins., closed captioned)

An overview of landscape painting through twenty examples ranging from the Renaissance era to the twentieth century. Landscape painting in the European tradition first served as a vehicle for religious symbolism and later as the setting for religion, mythological, literary, and historical subjects. Dutch painters of the seventeenth century were among the first to treat landscape as a subject in its own right, and the subject became increasingly popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Image CD with 20 works of art and brief guide (Slideset version with 20 slides also available)

This encyclopedic reference contains more than 1,500 paintings and sculpture by more than 600 artists in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art. High-quality color images and details permit close study of the works. Indexes allow the works to be searched thematically by author or period. Also included are biographies of individual artists, a dictionary of terms, and regional maps.

This teaching packet looks at French painting from 1830 to 1900. Not a chronological overview, it instead travels region to region—from Brittany to Provence. It offers a multifaceted examination of art and culture, exploring most of the nineteenth century's major stylistic trends (from realism to postimpressionism) and artists (including Rousseau, Corot, Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Morisot, Monet, Renoir, Seurat, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Van Gogh). Image CD with more than 150 works of art and archival resources, 20 color study prints, a wall map, 150-page booklet, and a separate classroom guide with activities and student handouts. (Slideset version with 40 slides also available)