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Exploring Art History

Get ready to take a web journey to the Louvre and to see
virtual images from all over the world. Learn about art
history and have fun.
Go to each website and find the needed information.
Click on http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
Go to Italian Renaissance. Go to Early Renaissance.
What is the original name of Sandro Botticelli?
1.
Where is he from in Italy?
2.
Click on the painting The Adoration of the Magi. (until
its big enough to see)
What image is near the center of the painting?
3.
Go to High Renaissance. Click on Michelangelo.
4. List two facts about his life or career.

6. go to www.wga.hu/ Go to Virtual Tours. Click on a tour

and list two art works and artists seen.
Artist
Title
Date
a)
B)
7. What have you learned on your tour?

Click on the next link.

http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Visite.html
Go to Virtual Tours and click on the Sistine Chapel.
Click on views 1,2,3. Take your time to look at the
images. Click on View the frescoes of the Sistine
chapels. Click on images to see up close by clicking
several times on the pictures.
Identify one image and tell something about it.
8. Location
9. Title or description
10. What did you learn?

Click on http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
Go to Baroque. Scroll down to Pays-Bas, click on

Rembrandt. Look forThe Night Watch. Click . If you

cant find it, go to paintings from 1640-49 and search for
this title.
What was the correct title for this work?
11.
Go back to the Web Museum by clicking the back arrow
twice or click on link again. Find Revolution and
Restoration. Click. Click on France then on Jacques
Louis David.
12. What artist was David's first training with?
13. What style was the teacher known for?
14. What is the style of David?
Go to Romanticism. Select an artist and artwork and tell
why it is considered Romantic or Neoclassical.
15. Title
16. artist
17. Why?

Learn About Impressionism. Go to

http://www.impressionism.org/
Click on Experience Impressionism. Click on drawing of
an arch which is the site map.
Continue through the site to Learn about Impressionism.
Take your time and go through each location.

List two reasons why Impressionism was different from

the previous styles of art.
18.
19.
Go to Timeline of Art History_The Metropolitan Museum
of Art Look at the timeline and hold the arrow on each
art piece to determine from which time period it was
produced. Click on The painting from world regions
1800-1900's. Click on Europe and then click on France
then 1900.
Describe Vincent van Gogh's painting.
20.
21. Title
Use any of the links listed to find the style of this
painting.
22. Style?

Enrichment Activity
Go to the Louvre. Click Official Web site of the Muse
du Louvre
In What country is the Louvre located?
Click on Museum then scroll to Virtual Tours.
Select any exhibit or tour and tell about what you see.

Now go to Louvre Virtual Tour and explore the site. Tell

about what you find.