The Baroque Era: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists

Whether you’re an art teacher who’s focusing on art history, or a social studies teacher who wants to incorporate art into a multi-cultural unit on world history, “The Baroque: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists” is a unit you can use for many years to come. The narrator’s script, which accompanies each slide show, focuses on the artist’s style, personal life, art training, artistic reputation, curious facts, end of life, and each of the subjects or genres in which he created art. The slide shows contain the following:

• Caravaggio — 37 works of art described with more than 130 facts, and another 90 details about his life and art style
• Rubens — 37 works of art described with more than 70 facts, and another 90 details about his life and art style
• Velazquez — 38 works of art described with more than 150 facts, and another 75 details about his life and art style
• Rembrandt — 49 works of art described with more than 180 facts, and nearly 100 details about his life and art style
• Vermeer — 29 works of art described with more than 150 facts, and nearly 110 details about his life and art style
• Van Ruisdael — 36 works of art described with more than 90 facts, and another 75 details about his life and style

Included in this unit is a teaching manual, which will guide you in using the slide shows and narrator’s scripts, and a simple timeline that shows when each artist lived. In addition, a critical thinking assignment called “Artist Evaluation” will ask your students to analyze what they’ve learned about each artist as you present the slide shows. A “Grading Rubric” is included for your convenience.

If you’re interested in slide shows on master artists of other eras, I will be uploading units on:

• The High Renaissance
• The Northern Renaissance
• Romanticism & Classicism
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism
• Landscape Artists
• The American Frontier
• Modern Artists of Europe
• Modern Artists of America
• Abstract