Art History Guide
The art history guide can be used for all ages as an art appreciation course
or a history course. As an art appreciation course, it can be used to study
major artists throughout history or to study the artists of a particular
country, continent, time period, or art movement. As a history course, it can
be used to study the artists and their work in relation to the events of a
particular country, continent, or time period. The entire course will take
1-3 years, depending on the methods you choose. The guide contains the following:
- Table of Contents
- Master list of almost 200 artists, from ancient
history to 1900, with birth and death dates, art movement, country, medium,
and common subjects listed for each
- Lists of artists by subject, country, and art
movements, with each artist numbered for easy reference to the master list
- Artist research forms, at two levels of difficulty,
with instruction sheet for completing the more difficult one.
- Time line of art movements
- Rubrics for student and parent evaluations and a
grade worksheet
- Study guides and tests for each century, from the
15th to the 19th
- Resource lists --- where to find coloring pages
of famous artwork, artist information and biographies, activities based on
artists and their work, pictures of famous artwork, and other resources
of interest
- Rubrics for evaluating student work
- Information to help you with hands-on projects,
such as creating a history time line
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