Planning Art.

Putting together a list of painters to study for the period from 1300 to 1600 is easy.

Van Eyck --1385-1441
Botticelli --1445-1510
da Vinci --1452-1519
Durer --1471-1528
Raphael --1483-1520
Titian --1488-1576
Bruegal, the Elder --1524-1569

and there, I think is as good a stopping place as any. (Maybe.)

My plan is to present the kids with at least one painting every two weeks for discussion, analysis and imitation.

That means 7 lesson plans, paintings and relevant art projects to find, research, prepare and print between now and Christmas.

I've always been too ambitious for anyone's good.

(Though I did find an excellent lesson plan for this week comparing Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Marriage with Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin (above) written for fifth graders and a cool art project to go with it. May I continue to be so lucky!)