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ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
In this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
New York University
Grey Art Gallery: John Singer Sargent, Draughtsman
Resource presents this look at the drawings and sketchwork of American painter John Singer Sargent.
PBS
Pbs: How Art Made the World: Human Body in Egypitan Art
PBS documentary considers how ancient Egyptian artists chose to represent the human body and answers questions about how the cultural values of a society, such as the desire for order, shape its art. With close-ups of Egyptian art that...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Draw a Portrait
In addition to providing suggestions for drawing the perfect portrait, Kids at Art looks at Leonardo da Vinci and his ideas about depicting the human figure.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils
Compare and contrast drawings by Rembrandt with those of his students to learn about his characteristic visual traits, especially his approach to line and his use of light and shadow to create the illusion of three dimensions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Studies for the Last Judgment and a Late Crucifixion Drawing
The Last Judgement was a common theme in church art, but Michelangelo's interpretation was entirely novel. His vision of the Apocalypse is a swirling maelstrom, filled with thick-set and muscular naked figures. Traditional symmetry and...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Figure in Art
Contains a very brief description of figure, including some good examples of the human figure being used in art.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes Into Sculptures
In this lesson, students will identify 2- and 3-dimensional shapes as well as create shape drawings and sculptures. Teacher materials are available.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Landscape With Farmyard and Figure Drawing Water From Well
An image of "Landscape with Farmyard and Figure Drawing Water from Well", created by Cornelis Gerritsz Deckerz (Oil on canvas, 84 x 107 cm).
Other
Sweet Briar College: Prehistoric Art
A wealth of artifacts beginning with one of the earliest pieces of sculpture, the Venus of Willendorf and progressing through the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods.
Other
Da Vinci's Anatomical Drawings
The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education displays a collection of Leonardo's sketches and studies of the human body, internal organs, bones, and an infant in utero. An excellent site for comparing the characteristics of art and...
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Costume Drawing for a Female Figure With Torch
An image of "Costume drawing for a female figure with torch", created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1585 (Pen, blue wash on white paper, 303 x 205 mm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Costume Drawing of a Female Figure With Torch
An image of "Costume drawing of a female figure with torch", created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1585 (Pen, blue wash on white paper, 305 x 204 mm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Costume Drawing for a Male Figure With Torch
An image of "Costume drawing for a male figure with torch", created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1585 (Pen, blue wash on white paper, 314 x 203 mm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Costume Drawing for a Male Figure With Stave
An image of "Costume drawing for a male figure with stave", created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1585 (Pen, blue wash on white paper, 314 x 211 mm).
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: A Brush With History
Exhibition of portraits of American heroes, statesmen, writers, artists, scientists, and historical figures draws on the paintings in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery to consider the story of America. View portraits from...
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Figure Skater
Cartoon drawing of figure skater Michelle Kwan.
Princeton University
Princeton University: The Art Museum
The Art Museum at Princeton University has a permanent collection ranging over time from ancient to contemporary and from the Mediterranean to Western Europe, China, Latin America and the U.S. Greek and Roman antiquities and Roman...
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Hermaphrodite Figure
An image of "Hermaphrodite Figure", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1538-43 (Drawing).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Study of David and Two Figures
An image of "Study of David and Two Figures", created by Fra Carnevale during the 1450's (Drawing).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Two Male Figures After Giotto (Recto)
An image of "Two Male Figures after Giotto (recto)", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti from 1490-92 (Pen and gray and brown ink over traces of drawing in stylus, 317 x 204 mm).
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Two Male Figures Looking in a Mirror and a Putto
An image of "Two Male Figures Looking in a Mirror and a Putto", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1515-20 (Black chalk heightened with white on gray-green prepared paper, 422 x 272 mm).
University of Chicago
Ancient Egyptian Images
Scroll through five images of Egyptian art. Includes photography images and line drawings.