National Gallery of Canada
Designing Balance
Teach your artists how to incorporate balance into their work through discussion and action. After viewing and discussing several works of art, learners design a balanced image for a T-shirt and follow the step-by-step instructions to...
National Gallery of Canada
Emphasizing Prints
Focus on how an artist creates emphasis on certain areas of a work with an examination of several works of art and a printmaking project. Follow the discussion suggestions and step-by-step printmaking instructions to successfully...
National Gallery of Canada
Reading Symbols
Introduce your upper-elementary students to printmaking. Class members view prints, select and research symbols in a piece, and create their own sets of prints using styrofoam trays. Pupils can wash off the paint on their trays to make...
National Gallery of Canada
My First Print
Practice printmaking with a fun lesson. After observing images, class members use the listed materials, such as stamps and sponges, create their own prints. They experiment with layering, pressure, and paint colors.
Curated OER
Analyzing Visual of Samson and the Lion
What strategies do historians use for interpreting visuals? This simple worksheet lists four questions that learners can use to approach and analyze historical photographs, fine pieces of art, etc., as well as an opportunity to apply the...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Durer, Albrecht
Brief biographical history with links to images of his works including "The Four Holy Men." Also contains information on his high regard in Germany as an artist and offers interpretation of several of his paintings and his style.
Other
Southern Methodist University: Bridwell Library: Works of Albrecht Durer
This exhibition of seventy prints by German-born artist Albrecht Durer demonstrates his skill as an artist and engraver. With many examples of his religious subjects and portraits.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Albrecht Durer
An excellent, detailed biography of Durer, with extensive links to his works and contemporaries. This site not only details his artwork, but also his contributions as a mathematician.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 4: 2 D Art
This fourth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of two-dimensional art. Students learn about the invention of paper, early perceptions of drawing, how hatching and cross-hatching were used by Michelangelo,...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Late Gothic Painting
Learn about artists of the Late Gothic Period and see many examples of their work. Hieronymus Bosch is among the artists explored at this site.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: The Four Holy Men by Durer
This resoucre contains a picture of Albrecht Durer's painting, "The Four Holy Men", and contains information on it. Biographical information is also available for Durer.
Other
Alchemy lab.com: Albrecht Durer's Melencolia
This site contains an analysis of Durer's drawing "Melencolia" and includes a picture of it.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Albrecht Durer: The Adoration of the Magi
This website presents a brief biography of Albrecht Durer and examples of his paintings.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Adam and Eve
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the German Renaissance engraving "Adam and Eve" by Albrecht Durer, with a description and images from the book.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Durer was born in Nuremberg; he was apprenticed to the painter Michel Wolgemut. He traveled widely from 1492 to 1494, visiting Schongauer's workshop in Colmar, the leading German painter and engraver at the time. From 1494-5 he...
Then Again
Then Again: Web Chron: The Italian Renaissance
This is a short timeline of key events of the Italian Renaissance. Make sure to click on "Humanism" and "Renaissance Art" for more information.
Other
Albrecht Durer: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
This page from the Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature contains a picture of Durer's "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait at 13
An image of "Self-Portrait at 13", created by Albrecht Durer in 1484 (Silverpoint on paper, 275 x 196 mm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Alliance Coat of Arms of the Durer and Holper Families
An image of "Alliance Coat of Arms of the Durer and Holper Families", created by Albrecht Durer in 1490 (Oil on panel, 47 x 39 cm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Portrait of Durer's Father
An image of "Portrait of Durer's Father", created by Albrecht Durer in 1490 (Oil on panel, 48 x 40 cm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Portrait of Barbara Durer
An image of "Portrait of Barbara Durer", created by Albrecht Durer in 1490 (Oil on pine panel, 47 x 38 cm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: St Jerome
An image of "St Jerome", created by Albrecht Durer in 1492 (Woodcut, 190 x 133 mm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Self Portrait at 22
An image of "Self-portrait at 22", created by Albrecht Durer in 1493 (Oil on linen, transferred from vellum, 57 x 45 cm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Studies of Self Portrait, Hand and Pillow
An image of "Studies of Self-Portrait, Hand and Pillow", created by Albrecht Durer in 1493 (Pen and ink on paper, 28 x 20 cm).