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| © Laurie Block Spigel 2005 – 2012 |
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| When I teach art history, I begin by defining history and prehistory. When does history
actually begin? If it begins with the use of written documentation, then perhaps “history” is
really the history of the written word (written mostly by educated, aristocratic men). But history
also includes “prehistory,” the life of cave men for example, dinosaurs, and the history of our
planet before man ever existed. |
| — Laurie Block Spigel, from Education Uncensored |
Art History of the Ancient World
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Description |
Activity |
| 1. |
Cave Painting (central Europe) |
Timeline, drawing with charcoal on paper |
| 2. |
Ancient Egypt |
Reading tomb paintings, hieroglyphic writing on papyrus scrolls |
| 3. |
Early China |
Brush & ink on paper, calligraphy |
| 4. |
Ancient Greece and Rome |
Mosaic art |
| 5. |
Pre-Columbian Latin America |
Symbolic animal art |
| 6. |
Ancient Islamic Art |
Block printing, rotational symmetry |
| 7. |
Native North America |
Designing a shamanic shield |
| 8. |
Early Japan |
Designing a kimono, origami |
| 9. |
Ancient Africa |
Masks |
| 10. |
Aboriginal Australia and New Zealand |
Animal X-ray dot drawings |
Art History of the Middles Ages and the Renaissance
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Description |
Activity |
| 1. |
Illuminated manuscripts and Books of Hours |
Illuminated letters |
| 2. |
Medieval cathedral architecture and stained glass
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Stained glass windows using markers on acetate |
| 3. |
Medieval bestiaries, misericords, tapestries |
Make your own composite beast |
| 4. |
Early Italian masters: Giotto |
Make our own egg tempera, homemade paint on paper |
| 5. |
Dutch Masters: Van Eyck, Rembrandt |
Three-panelled paintings |
| 6. |
Italian Masters I: Uccello and the birth of perspective |
Drawing perspective, pencil on paper |
| 7. |
Italian Masters II: Leonardo Da Vinci, his art, inventions and scientific discoveries |
Measuring the human body and drawing in proportion |
| 8. |
Italian Masters III: Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel |
Fresco painting |
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