Created for a freshman Western Art History class for ESL students in China. Based on Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Introduction.

2. Questions Art Historians Ask:
How old is it?
Leonardo Da Vinci,
“La Gioconda”
(Mona Lisa), 1503,
Italy
And a copy of the
Mona Lisa by an
anonymous artist

3. Questions Art Historians Ask:
What is its style?
Regional style- Cathedrals in Florence, Italy and
Beauvais, France, both from late 13th century.

4. Personal Style
Jan Polack, “The Miracle
Albrecht Durer, “Hare”,
of the Bear”, 1489,
1502, German
German

5. Questions Art Historians Ask:
Who made it?
The Achilles Painter 470-420 BC, Greece,
“Oedipus and the Sphinx”, “Euphorbus and
Oedipus”

6. Questions Art Historians Ask:
Who paid for it?
Michaelangelo, Sistene
Chapel Ceiling, Vatican City,
Italy, 1508-1512.
Commissioned by the Pope
of the Catholic Church

7. Different ways of seeing

9. Words art historians use:
 Form  Perspective
 Composition  Foreshortening
 Material  Proportion
 Technique  Scale
 Line
 Color
 Texture
 Space

10. Form
Anonymous Tudor
artist, “Elizabeth of
York”, 1500, England

11. Composition
Jan Vermeer, The Music Lesson, 1662-65, Oil on canvas, Dutch

12. Material
Zhang Dexuan, portrait made from human hair, Chengdu, China

13. Technique
Escaping Criticism
by Pere Borrell del
Caso, 1874
An example of
rompe-l’oil

14. Line

15. Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal Lines
Jacques Louis David,
"Oath of the Horatii"

16. Color

17. The color
wheel

18. Value

19. Texture

20. Van Gogh’s Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, France 1888

21. Space
Albrecht ALTDORFER
Rest on the Flight Into Egypt.
1510

22. Perspective

23. Foreshortening

25. Proportion
Beth Bojarski, “A Safe Place to Land”, 2009

26. Scale