Early American art

Alternate Titles

• Window on history & culture
• Window on history and culture
• Art, history and culture

Description

An interactive program of images, narration, hyperlinked text and sound, providing a window on the American colonies and early Republic, 1670-1830, through an examination of period portraits and landscape paintings, furniture, silver, architecture and architectural drawings, poetry, music, and documents. The section "One family" takes a close look at the Salisbury family of Boston and Worcester, Mass. Also includes study questions, source materials, and other learning resources.

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