February Arts {Mantegna, Bach, Stevenson}

Having no access to a working printer for the entire first half of the school year (with the exception of black and white copies from the library @ .10 a piece), I had to put the fine arts board on hold up until now.  

I could have (and should have) continued with the Composer/Artist/Poet of the Month had I been dedicated enough, but since it wasn't the way I *wanted* it and *liked* to do things, I am ashamed to say our Fine Arts were more haphazard than routine for the first half of the year.  

Thanks to a working printer again (cue angels voices!) the Fine Arts board is back and with it, our monthly composer/artist/poet studies!  I am very excited~ we all are.

  Here is our February board along with some of the resources we will be using this month.

 

Artist: Andrea Mantegna 1431-1503

Mantegna Works and information at Art Renewal Museum.  (A free membership is required.)  This is where I find the works to print and laminate for our artist works' and picture studies.

Sister Wendy's Story of Painting :  This book is a treasure trove of information on the history of art.  We LOVE this book.  Love.  We'll read about Mantegna this month in it.

Great Painters:  Couldn't find this book on Amazon so I'll link to it on goodreads.com.  This is a GREAT book and has been SO helpful in our monthly artist studies.  I originally borrowed it from the library but took it out so often I started to think I was being a bit unfair to everyone else.  So I bought my own copy.  


The Genius of Andrea Mantegna (Metropolitan Museum of Art)  (book borrowed from library)

 

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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

An Ambleside Article all about Bach

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Volume 14 by Elbert Hubbard: A rambling discourse on what the artists were like; probably most suitable for Years 6-12. Volume 14: Wagner, Paganini, Chopin, Schumann, Bach, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Beethoven, Handel, Verdi, Mozart, Brahms. (*found on Ambleside Online)

The Classical Music Listening Library : Bach

Classics For Kids Radio Show: BACH

A movie on the life of Bach:  

            Glory to God Alone: The Life of J.S. Bach Free with Amazon Prime! (Not sure the age group here...I'll be previewing it first.) 

A couple of cd's:

•  Mr. Bach Comes To Call 
• The Story of Bach in Words and Music 
• Bach for Breakfast 

A few books:

Great Composers:  *Ditto on the Great Painters.  Had to buy my own copy.  We use this book every month!

Great Composers (Dover History Coloring Book) (I make photocopies of the pages for the children to color on the first introduction of the composer.  I am always sad when we cover a composer that is not included in this book- something feels MISSING in our study of that composer!)

 Sebastian Bach, The Boy from Thuringia

 Johann Sebastian Bach (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 

 Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) 

Sebastian: A Book about Bach

These last two I have not used personally- but want to! :

Stories of the Great Composers (Book & CD) (Learning Link)

Meet the Great Composers Book 1 (Learning Link)

A few youtube videos:

  

  

  

  

   

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Poet:  Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and Jesse Wilcox Smith 1905 (our version)

Robert Louis Stevenson official website.

His home (which is now a museum) and tombstone.  

And not for the children, but this looks like an interesting listen for myself some time this month:

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