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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Portraits from Nature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discuss and identify the elements of a quilted portrait. As a class, they demonstrate making the templates needed for the activity. They take notes on how to complete the activity and discuss finishing options for the quilt....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Egyptian Profile Portraits

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders design Egyptian style portraits. They use the correct proportions while drawing and painting the facial features.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who Am I? A Look at Portraits

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine a variety of portraits and distinguish them from other art forms. They examine and analyze what visual clues reveal about the people in portraits and create their own portraits.
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Graphic
Other

Louvre Museum: A Closer Look at Louis Francois Bertin

For Students 9th - 10th
Media-rich module examines a portrait of a nineteenth-century French newspaper magnate by Ingres. Accompanying commentaries and animations demonstrate Ingres's approach to portraiture and convey the work's historical and artistic...
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PPT
Other

New Britain Museum of American Art: Costumes

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting way to study the history of American portraiture, by focusing on the clothing of those who sat for their portraits.
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Website
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National Portrait Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
The home on the web of Great Britain's National Portrait Gallery is a repository of the likenesses of famous British men and women. Portraits stretch back in time into the the sixteenth century and run right up to the present. Includes...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Art and Architecture: Four Paintings: Rubens: Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder

For Students 9th - 10th
Rubens's group portrail of the family of Jan Brueghel the Elder.