Famous Paintings Reviewed

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Here are some recent posts:

Cave Paintings

Famous Paintings at the Met. A sortable list and guide to this art museum.

Famous Paintings: Madame X.  The difference between "scandal" then and now in the Sargent masterpiece!

Frida Kahlo paintings, including The Two Fridas

 

Think Art History is Dull?

Check What's New for snippets to convince sceptics that art history is fascinating!

Using Masterpiece Cards

In the classroom. Art history teachers have oodles of ideas about using Masterpiece Cards an an art history teaching tool. Read some suggested uses of Masterpiece Cards in the classroom.

With young children. Expose your children to famous paintings early - it's often "key to developing life-long involvement in the arts", according to the Wallace Foundation. Read about using Masterpiece Cards with young children.

Art History Books Used

Nearly two dozen art history books were used to compile the list of 250 famous paintings in Masterpiece Cards.  A subset of these books and publishers, shown below, granted permission for us to quote them in assessing the art paintings: 

art history books

Famous Paintings ebook

Download the free famous paintings ebook! For each of the 250 Masterpieces in Western Painting, it lists

  • the title and painter of each work
  • the medium and year created
  • the city and art museum or institution in which the famous painting is located.
Ready? Download the famous painting ebook. 

Art History Powerpoint Resource

William V. Ganis, PhD, has compiled an impressive array of Art History Powerpoints that complement and expand upon Gardner's 11th and 12th editions and Arnason's History of Modern Art, 5th edition. Covers famous artworks from Western art and beyond the European tradition. Check out the Art History Powerpoints!