In the classroom. Art history teachers discuss using Masterpiece Cards an an art history teaching tool.  Favorites? Create an art history timeline.

With young children. Start art appreciation early - it's "key to developing life-long involvement in the arts", according to the Wallace Foundation. Read about using Masterpiece Cards with young children.

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: 

Curious which 250 art history masterpieces are in Masterpiece Cards?  Our ebook is a sortable listing of

• the title and painter of each art painting
• the medium and year created
• the city and art museum or institution in which the art painting is located.

So if you're going to New York City, for instance, you'd sort by "City" to have a list of masterpiece paintings to start visits at the Met, the Frick, The Hispanic Society, the Whitney, The Guggenheim, and MoMA.

 

 

A compilation of fifty art history blogs, compiled by an online degree program, in January 2011.

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!