Masterpiece Cards' customers are:

• Students and teachers of AP art history, art appreciation, and intro art history college classes. Introduces famous paintings from an array of art history survey books, not just one. Great supplement for eras not thoroughly covered in class! Read more in For Students and For Teachers. 

• Art teachers: in elementary schools, teachers slip the Cards into Ziplox bags and expose young minds to famous paintings. Other art teachers use Masterpiece Cards to explain a style or an art movement. See For Teachers. 

• Art museum visitors.  Read a summary of the art history of a painting  before you go.  With young children, embark on a treasure hunt to find art paintings in that art museum. Get more details in For Travelers. 

• Homeschool Families. Use the Cards to teach art appreciation and the history of painting, while retaining the right to monitor easily which famous paintings are studied. Read about using the Cards in Homeschooling Art History.

Then please, oh please -- Check out what all these customers have said in Reviews of Masterpiece Cards!

One of the 250 famous paintings examined in Masterpiece Cards - and one whose meaning is more clear after knowing its historical and social context.  The (now) famous painter, Rosa Bonheur, had to disguise herself as a man to gain admission into the horse market where she sketched this subject! Read more about this and other famous paintings by Rosa Bonher..

Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur.  Oil on canvas, 1853 - 1855. 8' x 17' (approx.).  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

 

It was recently discovered that she painted her self portrait into this imposing masterpiece.  I think she must have been laughing the entire time!