"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 29.000 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided."
The Ensemble Musica Romana is bringing sounds of times long past to life again. By research of ancient music and reconstruction of ancient instruments they successfully revive archaic sounds and forgotten melodies.
The chariot race from BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST (1925), remains one of the most riveting pieces of cinema ever produced - so much so that it was used as a blueprint for the now better known one in the 1959 version. The 1925 version was first reissued to theaters in 1931 with a synchronized music and effects track - as can be heard in this excerpt. (fair use for educational and informational study)