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Art History Pedagogy & Practice is a peer-reviewed open access e-journal devoted to scholarship of teaching and learning in art history.

This site is a peer-populated platform for art history teachers. AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.

Welcome to Gods, Saints, and Heroes: An Art History Resource. This is an online resource and guide to recognizing symbols and attributes of important figures from mythology, religion, and literature in Western art.

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.

Here you can find a biography of Claude Monet, one of the most famous French painters in the world. You can also click "The Complete Works" link to look at his many paintings.

In this biography page, you can read about Edgar Degas' life and view his many works

You'll find a biographical article here about French painter, Edouard Manet. Click on "The Complete Works" to view his many paintings.

In this TED ED video, you will learn about the life and art of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, who explored disability, relationships and Mexican culture in her work.

A short article and a 13 minute film about the life and work of artist Georgia O'Keefe.

In this biographical article about artist, Henri Matisse, you'll learn about who influenced his later thinking about art and how it affected his paintings. You can also see 1008 of his paintings on this site.

This biographical page about Paul Gauguin, who became a very famous artist in France despite having no formal training in art. This page includes links to 34 of his works for viewing.

A Biography article about Pierre-Auguste Renoir that details his life and his international success in art.

In this video, you will learn about the amazing life of Thomas Alexander Dumas who was a general in Revolutionary France.

A site that features biographies of many famous artists around the world. You can select a Francophone country to see who it's famous modern artists are.

Students can explore the works in the Sistine Chapel from any angle in this 3-d rendering.

Get to know the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most accomplished artists of the 17th century.

Experiments in abstract representation of nature became the cornerstone of the movement known as American Modernism. Iseult Gillespie explores the works of the elusive painter and sculptor, Georgia O'Keefe, who is recognized as the founder of this movement.

As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.

More than 500 years after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is arguably the world’s most famous painting. Many scholars consider it an outstanding work of Renaissance art— but history is full of great paintings. So, how did this particular portrait skyrocket to unprecedented fame?

Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer’s "Girl with the Pearl Earring," is often referred to as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North.’ What makes this painting so captivating? Learn how this painting 'represents the birth of a modern perspective on economics, politics, and love'.