Curated OER
Religions and Mentors: Making Cultural Comparisons
Young scholars compare the Tirthankara of Jain religious stories and compare it to mentors who appear throughout Western stories. Studentsl create a narrative or a portrait in honor of a mentor of his or her own.
Curated OER
Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson I
Students complete a chart (KWL) as a pre-assessment, study the history of tessellations (tilings), investigate the properties of tessellations, and make and evaluate photographs of "found tessellations" for a PowerPoint/HyperStudio...
TES Global
Tes: Maths and Islamic Art & Design
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of design and shape templates from the Maths and Islamic Art & Design sections of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It provides the following templates: Islamic circular grid,...
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Louvre Museum: Discover the Collection: Islamic Art
Pieces from the Louvre's extraordinary collection of Islamic art are grouped together in this thematic overview that lets viewers explore the decorative characteristics and motifs of Islamic art. Wonderful photographs of carvings,...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art, Geometric Design: Learning Activities
Examine the principles of geometric design that are the basis for the beautiful and intricate patterns in the art of the Islamic world.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art Collection at Lacma
This site explains Islamic Art from the early to the late Islamic period.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art Highlights
Fifty masterworks from the Metropolitan's collection of Islamic art are on display, grouped by object type to aid comparative analysis. Includes curators' notes, along with detailed views. Stunning examples of Islamic art and calligraphy...
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Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation: Islamic Art Network
This resource presents a treasure trove of scholarly resources on the art and architectural history of Islam. A work in process, the network's resources focus principally on Cairo but are expected, over time, to move outward to cover the...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Islam and Islamic Art
A dictionary entry for Islam and Islamic art with numerous illustrations of representative works in all media, including architecture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and manuscripts. Includes useful cross-references to related terms and...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Introduction
A general introduction to Islamic art. Explains the term, the unifying style elements of Islamic art, the role of calligraphy, popular misconceptions about Islamic art, and similar topics. Includes internal links to definitions of...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Late Medieval Period: History
A solid introduction to Islamic art of the late medieval period (approximately A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1450) that relates historical events to the art production of the time. With informative descriptions and wonderful reproductions that...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art: Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of Middle East
In recent years, the parameters of Islamic art (particularly as defined by museums, commercial art galleries, and private collections) have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from or with roots in the Middle East. These...
The British Museum
British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Islamic Middle East
Learn about Islamic art of the middle east in this historical overview with accompanying image gallery of relevant object images from the British Museum collection.
My Learning
Exploring Islamic Architecture
A deep exploration of Islamic art and architecture through a variety of interesting topics. Includes art activity suggestions, an interactive game, and printable worksheets.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Religions in Art
At World Religions in Art, the world's major religions--Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism--serve as lenses through which artistic production is examined in terms of its subject matter, sources of inspiration, meaning,...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Early Islamic Period: History
An excellent introduction to the earliest period of Islamic art (approximately A.D. 700 to A.D. 1000) that includes a historical overview of the rise of Islam. With informative descriptions and wonderful reproductions of art from the...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Early Medieval Period: History
An overview of Islamic art from the early medieval period (approximately A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1150) that begins with a historical overview of the shifting Islamic politics of the time. With informative descriptions and wonderful...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Early Islamic Period: Art
While the Islamic period has a fixed starting date, signaled by the emigration of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622, the birth of Islamic art is far more difficult to single out. Instead, we can consider...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Late Islamic Period: History
An examination of Islamic art, from the fifteenth century through to the end of the Ottoman empire (just after World War I). Includes dozens of images of late Islamic art - textiles, ceramics, manuscripts - each with useful descriptions...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Islamic Art: Early Medieval Period: Art
Combining innovative styles, techniques, and forms with previously conceived ones, early medieval art is often marked by strong regional characteristics. Compared with early Islamic art, works of art from this period make much greater...
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Anavian Gallery (New York): Islamic Art Gallery
Dozens of examples of Islamic art in all media in the holdings of the Anavian Gallery, New York-based art dealers/appraisers. Browse, learn, and enjoy.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Islamic Middle East
The term Islamic is used here to define the art and material culture of those lands where the dominant religion is Islam, the religion revealed to the prophet Muhammad in seventh century Arabia. The Islamic lands have encompassed at...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art History: Art of the Islamic World
A course on the history of art through the different periods of the Islamic world. Should be cross-checked against smarthistory.org.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
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