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British Library

British Library: Illuminating the Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The British Library presents "Illuminating the Page", a broad and diverse analysis of illuminated manuscripts from the middle ages. Including videos, audio, a gallery and other forms of information that give a detailed overview of this...
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Medieval Treasures

For Students 9th - 10th
"Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art" is an on-line exhibit with images and detailed descriptions of pieces on view in the like named exhibition in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Covering four periods of the medieval age this...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Test Your Knowledge of Gothic Art (Quiz)

For Students 9th - 10th
How much do you know about Gothic art? Find out by answering this seven-question true/false and multiple-choice questions. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Focus on Rebellion: Peasant Revolts

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the European Middle Ages' peasant revolts.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Hours of Jeanne D'evreux

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine a book of hours, or prayer book, made for French queen Jeanne d'Evreux in the early 14th century at this Metropolitan Museum site. Illustrations, closeups, and explanatory annotations populate the site, which is especially...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Gothic Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from the Artcyclopedia is mainly a listing of artists that worked in the Gothic to Late Gothic period of Art History. Some links include biographical info but all include reproductions of the artists' work.
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Dick Blick Art Materials Castles Lesson Plan

For Students 3rd - 8th
This illustrated lesson plan could easily fit into social studies or art unit on European castles. Young scholars create a pop-up castle with construction paper and other art materials.
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National Library of France

National Library of France: Medieval Gastronomy in Images

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting look at medieval art that depicts a facet of ordinary life: eating. Organized into three sections on food, cooking, and meals, this online exhibit tells us much about the medieval diet, the value of certain foods, the...
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The British Museum

British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Byzantine Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the art of the Byzantine empire in this historical overview and image gallery with detailed descriptions, from the collection of the British Museum.
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The British Museum

British Museum: Explore World Cultues: Medieval Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the art of medieval Europe in this historical overview and image gallery with detailed descriptions of each object, from the collection of the British Museum.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint Denis

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs of the chalice include a full screen image as well as various detail images. You will find a description of the chalice, its history as well as a biography of Abbot Suger, the exhibition history of the chalice, conservation...
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University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia: Guy of Warwick

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by the University of British Columbia, this is a collection of images and links related to Guy of Warwick used as supplemental material in a class about printing the Middle Ages. Contains many pictures of early texts depicting...
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Sweet Briar College: Art History Resources on the Web: Early Medival Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides links to examples of and resources on the art and architecture of the early medieval period.
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Incredible Art Department

Incredible Art: Eric Carle Collage

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan encourages children to use painted paper to make a collage using the style of Eric Carle as inspiration.
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University of Illinois: The Early Centuries of the Greek Roman East

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the Romiosini, or Greek Middle Ages and the development of the Greek-Roman east. The article is divided into two different sections. The first section includes the foundation of Constantinople as a means to...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Knights in Central Park

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan is home to thousands of objects from centuries of history. Here they offer a short, descriptive site on arms and armor from the Middle Ages in countries around the world.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Origins of Rock Art in Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Personal ornamentation and engraved designs are the earliest evidence of art in Africa and are inextricably tied up with the development of human cognition. View pictures and read about prehistoric art in Africa.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Middle English Lyrics: Texts

For Students 9th - 10th
A site with links to various Middle English works and their lyrics. Several images and related links.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Florentine Art and Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Learner.org illustrates the inner and outer workings of Renaissance art and architecture in the Italian city of Florence. It also provides an example by noting some works by Michelangelo and Botticelli.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry (Book of the Hours)

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text and artwork of a Medieval book known as a "book of the hours". It was a collection of written and visual materials dealing with each liturgical hour of the day. They were hand-made and are quite rare. This example was...
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Imagining the Past in France: 1250 1500

For Students 9th - 10th
View highlights from an exhibition of medieval French manuscripts, whose subjects range from the religious, to the courtly, to the historical. See a slideshow (with narration) of featured works from the exhibition and sample three...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

For Students 9th - 10th
Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: The Moralized Game of Chess

For Students 9th - 10th
The subject matter of this medieval manuscript by the friar, Jacobus de Cessolis, is interesting--looking at the game of chess from a societal standpoint. Even more interesting from the viewpoint of the history of art is the illustrated...
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Library of Congress

Loc: A Video Selection of Illuminated Manuscripts

For Students 9th - 10th
A video selection of various medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, including bibles and books of hours.

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