HeArt History is our study of Art through the years which allows you to discover an artist and their artwork. But more importantly, you can discover how Art was used to tell God’s story and display His creation.
There is so much Art throughout History that one museum could not house and display it all. We are gathering only some of the amazing artist and their work in this curriculum as an Art museum to help you study and learn more about Art.
Our desire is to explore Art in a way that we discover the heart of the artist, their works and how art history can tell the story of the Master artist, God.
Because you cannot study Art History without History, we are curating websites, supplies and resources to help you learn a little about Art History to go along with our HeART History Study located in our ReMEMBERers Bible and Art Membership.
But you can also use this resource as a springboard to study Bible, History, Literature, people, places, things to do and so much more with your children. Take rabbit trails and discover where God is throughout History…after all it is His-story. *affiliate links
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Our desire is sharing God’s Word and love through creative resources for all learning styles.
A quick research into the definition of the word art will bring a long list of opinions. Art is subjective, hard to define and just about anything can be Art.
The Art Assignment has thought provoking videos to question what is Art. It is a PBS Digital Studios production for older kids and teens. You should watch prior to your children because Art could be shown that you not choose to view.
What is Art is a question that has been pondered for many years. Crash Course has a couple of videos that question and deliver information to help you ponder art in Art Aesthetic #30 and #31.
If you are part of our ReMEMBERers online Bible and Art membership, we use these art supplies in our Art lessons for Ancient Art.
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Enchanted Learning has several coloring pages and printables for the Ancient time period. Most of them are Egyptian.
Super Coloring has coloring pages for just about any subject and is kid friendly. Just type in the search bar “ancient”, for a quick printable.
On Coloring also has coloring pages that are geared for younger and even teens.
Pinterest for printables and ideas
Bob Raczka: Name That Style- Ism
Dover Coloring Books: Search for art, weapons, fashion, architecture, music, culture, and ancient civilizations by name. There are too many to list here!
We love doodling and drawing. Stick figures can be drawn by anyone! Grapevine has great products to work you through learning the Bible with stick figures!
Use rabbit trails for vocabulary words, spelling, writing prompts, books to read, Science and even language arts.
clay, ceramic, quartz, pottery, cedar oil, bricks,
lapis lazuli, jewelry, sculpture, reliefs, porcelain,
masks, goldsmiths, gems, frescos, terra cotta, columns, pyramids symbolism, tiles,
hieroglyphics, Chinese script, cuneiform, ziggurats, Cyrus cylinder,
metal working, swords, weapons, shields, clothing/fashion
Art supplies: Paper making, clay tablets, palm leaves, animal skins, bones, bamboo, silk, papyrus, reeds, quill pens, inks.
God’s Tabernacle, Priests clothing, Tabernacle furnishings, Solomon’s Temple
The Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project- A very well organized site with online books of children’s classics.
The Bible Project is a great Bible resource that uses art to illustrate the Bible by books, themes and a timeline. The videos are well organized and kid friendly.
Ducksters is a fun website to gather information for kids. Under the History section, you can find World History which gives you many Ancient Civilizations.
We enjoy Mr Donn’s website that is full educational information, links for History. It is so big, that even though it is organized, it is still overwhelming! We’re breaking down the links for you as they pertain to the Art History timeline.
• Ancient Mesopotamia for teachers and there is also Mesopotamia for kids with Mr Donn.
• This is more details about the arts and craftsmanship during the Ancient period.
• Ancient Egypt for teachers and there is also a kid’s section.
• Ancient Hebrews, God’s chosen people descendants of Abraham.
The Phoenicians mentioned in the Bible were seafaring people that lived on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Their ships were works of art.
• Ancient China has amazing Art that is still visited today. The Great Wall of China may have been a wall of defense, but it is artistic in design. Also Chinese writing is the oldest writing that is still in use today. It has not changed. Each stroke of ink has a meaning and is Art in itself.
This is a very interesting site for the Chinese script and how Genesis can be found in Ancient writings. We like Answers in Genesis too for great examples. –
Crash Course History– Just search any Ancient Civilization by name.
PBS has videos on so many subjects including Ancient Civilizations. You may want to preview them first before younger children. We found these:
Secrets of the Dead-
Sinking Atlantis
The Silver Pharaoh
China’s Terracotta Warriors
Ultimate Tut
After Stonehenge
Nero’s Sunken City
Nova:
Emperor’s Ghost Army
Building Pharaoh’s Chariot
Time Scanners:
Egyptian Pyramids
Jerusalem
The Parthenon in Nashville
Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky.
The Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
Smithsonian History Museum
Visit your local:
Art museums, Natural History museums, Planetarium.
For fun, drop the little yellow Google guy on an area of the world you would like to see and travel their satellite views.
If you are part of our ReMEMBERers online Bible and Art membership, we use these art supplies in our Art lessons for Ancient Art.
Plaster of Paris
Tacky Glue
Joint Compound
Organic Items
Enchanted Learning has several coloring pages and printables for Ancient Greece.
Super Coloring has coloring pages for just about any subject and is kid friendly. Just type in the search bar “Greece“, for a quick printable, and also Rome.
On Coloring also has coloring pages that are geared for younger and even teens. Just type in Greece or Rome.
Pinterest for printables and ideas
Dover Coloring Books: Search for art, weapons, fashion, architecture, music, culture, and ancient civilizations by name. There are too many to list here!
Greeks, Romans, Byzantine, Romanesque, Hellenistic, Etruscans, Eastern Orthodox Church, Caesar,
Solomon’s’ Temple, Alexander the Great, Maccabees, Hanukkah, Charlemagne Acropolis, Grecian urns, Nike of Samothrace, Pompeii, Parthenon, Roman arches, Homer- Iliad and the Odyssey, Zeuxis, Parrhasius,
The Colosseum, The Great Builders, Roman Baths, The Roman Forum
Tapestry, tile, mosaics, panel painting, tempera paint, encaustic painting, Temple carving, shrines, sculpture, portraits/portraiture, architecture, columns, frescos, murals, quill pens, mythology, Trajan’s Column, chiaroscuro, still life, trompe-l’oeil,
The Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project- A very well organized site with online books of children’s classics.
The Bible Project is a great Bible resource that uses art to illustrate the Bible by books, themes and a timeline. The videos are well organized and kid friendly.
Ducksters is a fun website to gather information for kids. Under the History section, you can find World History which gives you many Ancient Greece.
We enjoy Mr Donn’s website that is full educational information, links for History. It is so big, that even though it is organized, it is still overwhelming! We’re breaking down the links for you as they pertain to the Art History timeline.
Greece for kids
• This is more details about the arts and craftsmanship during the Classical Greek period.
• Rome for teachers and there is also a kid’s section.
• Rome for kids
PBS has videos on so many subjects including Classical Civilizations. You may want to preview them first before younger children. We found these:
The Holy Land Experience in Orlando Florida is home to the world’s largest personal Biblical artifact collection. You will enter the gates in to ancient times and see things as they may have looked in the Bible stories.
The Parthenon in Nashville
The Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
Be sure to visit your State’s capital, state monuments and other building downtown for architecture inspired by the Classical Greeks and Romans.
Smithsonian History Museum
Visit your local Art museums, Natural History museums, Planetarium.
For fun, drop the little yellow Google guy on an area of the world you would like to see and travel their satellite views.
If you are part of our ReMEMBERers online Bible and Art membership, we use these art supplies in our Art lessons for Ancient Art.
Dollar Tree frames
clear school glue
acrylic paint
scratch paper
Enchanted Learning has several coloring pages and printables for Medieval.
Notre Dame coloring page
Castles, Kings and Queens vocabulary list
Super Coloring has coloring pages for just about any subject and is kid friendly. Just type in the search bar “Medieval” and “Middle Ages”.
On Coloring also has coloring pages that are geared for younger and even teens. Just type in Medieval.
Dover Coloring Books: Search for art, weapons, fashion, architecture, music, culture, and medieval, middle ages, dark ages, castles, and knights. There are too many to list here!
Byzantine Art
Romanesque Art
Gothic Art
Giotto
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Cimabue aka-Benvenuto di Giuseppe
Duccio
Nicola Pisaro
Giorgio Vasari
Stain glass, mosaics, tapestries, illuminations, velum, triptychs, diptychs, wood cuts, silk, printing, ivory, Religious Art, oil paints, pigments, crosses and self protraits
Mosques, Holy relics, Cathedrals, Architecture,
The Bible Project is a great Bible resource that uses art to illustrate the Bible by books, themes and a timeline. The videos are well organized and kid friendly.
Ducksters is a fun website to gather information for kids. Under the History section, you can find World History which gives you many in the Medieval and Dark Ages.
We enjoy Mr Donn’s website that is full educational information, links for History. It is so big, that even though it is organized, it is still overwhelming! We’re breaking down the links for you as they pertain to the Art History timeline. You can discover more about the Middle Ages and the Roman Catholic Church
Feudal system, guilds, monasteries, knights and castles, becoming a knight, armor and weapons, coat of arms, shield, jouts, tournaments, chivalry, Heraldry,
The Black Death, Hundred Years War, The Roman Catholic Church, Cathedrals, Magna Carta, Reconquista of Spain, The Manorial System, peasants, serfs, commoners, Nobility-Kings, Lords, Ladies, Knights, Troubadours, monks, beggars, friars,
People to Discover: Alfred the Great, Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Charlemagne, Justinian I, Marco Polo, William the Conqueror, Saint Francis of Assisi, Anglo-Saxons, The Franks, Vikings, Holy Roman Emperor, Pope Leo,
Literature: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Caedmon’s Hymn, The Divine Comedy, The Travels of Marco Polo, Gregorian Chants, Le Morte d’Arthur (King Arthur), Robin Hood, Saint George and the Dragon,
The Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project- A very well organized site with online books of children’s classics.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Medieval Knight!
You Wouldn’t Want to Work on a Medieval Cathedral!You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Salem Witch!
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in a Medieval Dungeon!
A Year in a Castle
Knights & Castles: 50 Hands-On Activities
The Daily Struggles of Those Who Lived in the Middle Ages
Life on a Medieval Manor
A Year in a Castle
DK Readers L3: Knights and Castles
If You Were a Kid In a Medieval Castle
Medieval Warrior:
A Medieval Feast
Chivalry:
Weapon:
You Wouldn’t Want to Be Sick in the 16th Century!
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Medieval Knight!
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in a Medieval Dungeon!
PBS has videos on so many subjects including Medieval. You may want to preview them first before younger children. We found these:
How Medieval Parchment is Made
Medieval Drought in the Southwest
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
Architecture in the Middle Ages
Daily Life in the Medieval World
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
Reclaiming the Blade: History of the Sword
The Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
Search your area for local Medical festivals, marketplaces and tournaments. Also see festivals.
Visit a Medieval Times dinner and show! So much fun!
For fun, drop the little yellow Google guy on an area of the world you would like to see and travel their satellite views.
If you are part of our ReMEMBERers online Bible and Art membership, we use these art supplies in our Art lessons for Ancient Art.
Enchanted Learning has several coloring pages and printables for Medieval.
Super Coloring has coloring pages for just about any subject and is kid friendly. Just type in the search bar “Renaissance”.
Dover Coloring Books: Search for art, weapons, fashion, architecture, music, culture, of the Renaissance and Reformation. There are too many to list here!
Stain glass, mosaics, tapestries, illuminations, velum, triptychs, diptychs, wood cuts, silk, printing, ivory, Religious Art, oil paints, pigments, crosses and self portraits, landscapes, perspective, still lifes, Camera Obscura
Mosques, Holy relics, Cathedrals, Architecture, the Reformation, Protestant Churches
Ducksters is a fun website to gather information for kids. Under the History section, you can find World History and then the Renaissance. Renaissance Artists.
We enjoy Mr Donn’s website that is full educational information, links for History. It is so big, that even though it is organized, it is still overwhelming! We’re breaking down the links for you as they pertain to the Art History timeline. You can discover more about the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Crash Course- Renaissance History for kids
History for Kids- Renaissance
William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Copernicus, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Martin Luther, the Tudors,
The Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project- A very well organized site with online books of children’s classics.
Early Renaissance
High Renaissance
Mannerism
Baroque
Rococo
Jan van Eyck
Rogier van der Weyden
Masaccio
Brunelleschi
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Paolo Uccello
Raffaello Sanzio
Tiziano Vecellio “Titian”
Hans Holbein the Younger
Domenico Veneziano
Sandro Botticelli
Giovanni Bellini
Pieter Bruegel
Piero della Francesca
Donatello Piero
Albrecht Durer
Hans Holbein
Pieter Brueghel
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Galileo
Velazquez Francisco
Poussin
Vermeer
Hogarth
Canaletto
Thepolo
Chardin
Fragonard
Filippo Lippi
Rembrandt
Peter Paul Rubens
Caravaggio (1605)
Jean Antoine Watteau
Francois Boucher
El Greco
Luca Giordano
PBS has videos on so many subjects including Medieval. You may want to preview them first before younger children. We found these:
Google search a Renaissance festival in your area.
Watch a Shakespeare play in your area or online.
Visit an Art museum
You can separate the Modern Art periods, but there are so many artist that overlap and styles, techniques and movements during these Art periods, we are tossing them together!
