We were given the digital copy of The Master and His Apprentices: Art History from a Christian Perspective textbook and teacher's guide. The textbook includes 372 pages of wonderful information about art, artist, Christian history and so much more. I love that it is all taught from a Christian perspective. There are no nude images and I appreciate that in an art program. The textbook is broken down for your student by periods of time such as Creation, Ancient Cultures, Middle Ages, Renaissance and so on. It has 19 chapters and an appendix in the back. This can be used as a full year curriculum or as a supplemental art class.
Personally, I love the timelines that are included in the textbook. My daughter loved the beautiful paintings throughout the curriculum. I feel that we learned science along with Art History as we studied the Chapter on Creation, and the historical facts in the next few chapters were so interesting. It's like a Bible study along with historical facts. I can't wait to see what more they have to offer as we go on.
The Teacher's Guide has worksheets, discussion questions and tests that help you to see what your student is learning from the text. Since we are using this as a supplemental class for a younger student, I felt we could just go over the worksheets together and talk over the discussion questions. I want to make art exciting for her so we didn't want to push the tests as of right now, but when she is older, we may use this textbook again and the tests will be a good way of finding out how much she has retained.
This curriculum sparked many discussions and we both learned many wonderful facts about the works of art and artist. I loved the way they incorporated the Bible throughout the curriculum. God's creation is amazing and is the greatest work of art. Many of the paintings inspired our daughter to paint pictures of her own.
Here are a couple of examples of her work:
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Psalm 8:3-4 :When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? |
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Psalm 19:1 : To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
I was also inspired to look at the world around me in a new way. I can't draw or paint very well, so I took pictures of God's amazing handiwork.
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So I have to ask.... Have you had trouble finding a good Art History curriculum? Are you a parent who would like a modest and Christian based Art History curriculum? I think this would be a good fit for you. I would encourage you to head on over to The Master and His Apprentices website and check out their wonderful curriculum. I was so pleased with each and every page.
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nice to see how it worked for your daughter. :)
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