Questions Art Historians Ask:

How old is it?

Leonardo Da Vinci, La Gioconda (Mona Lisa), 1503, Italy And a copy of the Mona Lisa by an anonymous artist

Questions Art Historians Ask:

What is its style?

Regional style- Cathedrals in Florence, Italy and Beauvais, France, both from late 13th century.

Personal Style
Albrecht Durer, Hare , 1502, German Jan Polack, The Miracle of the Bear , 1489, German

Questions Art Historians Ask:

Who made it?

The Achilles Painter 470-420 BC, Greece, Oedipus and the Sphinx , Euphorbus and Oedipus

Questions Art Historians Ask:

Who paid for it?

Michaelangelo, Sistene Chapel Ceiling, Vatican City, Italy, 1508-1512. Commissioned by the Pope of the Catholic Church

Different ways of seeing

Words art historians use:

 Form  Composition  Material  Technique  Line  Color  Texture  Space  Perspective  Foreshortening  Proportion  Scale

Form

Anonymous Tudor artist, Elizabeth of York , 1500, England

Composition

Jan Vermeer, The Music Lesson, 1662-65, Oil on canvas, Dutch

Material

Zhang Dexuan, portrait made from human hair, Chengdu, China

Technique

Escaping Criticism by Pere Borrell del Caso, 1874 An example of rompe-l oil

Line

Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal Lines

Jacques Louis David, "Oath of the Horatii"

Color

The color wheel

Value

Texture

Van Gogh s Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, France 1888

Space

Albrecht ALTDORFER Rest on the Flight Into Egypt. 1510

Perspective

Foreshortening

Proportion

Beth Bojarski, A Safe Place to Land , 2009

Scale