Description - The Renaissance Artists by Diane C. Taylor
This nonfiction title for ages 10 through 13 profiles the lives and works of five major artists from the Italian Renaissance: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.
This nonfiction title for ages 9 through 12 introduces five major artists of the Northern Renaissance: Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Holbein, and Albrecht Durer.
This book gives readers a chance to learn more about the childhoods and everyday life of some of the period's best-known figures, including the challenges they overcame and the failures they encountered as well as the successes they achieved.
Includes open-ended assignments that ask readers to consider how political and social structures affect their lives.
Incorporates hands-on STEAM activities that directly relate to the mechanical processes used by Renaissance artists.
Develops cultural literacy by introducing readers to historical characters, concepts, and literary works that continue to influence the world in which we live.
Readers hear about the triumphs, failures, and funny stories of other artists and patrons of the time, including women and people from beyond the continent of Europe.
Uses an inquiry-based approach that encourages readers to think about the form and function of art as they experience it in their own lives.
A rich art program of images from the Renaissance serve as examples of primary sources while engaging readers with the aesthetic of that era.
This book is unique because there are few books for kids about the Renaissance that feature details of the lives (including their younger years) of several srtists all contained in one volume.
The Renaissance and people who lived in that time and place are familiar and interesting to readers in this age group.
Encourages the development of important skills, including problem solving and model testing.
Uses an inquiry-based approach to encourage readers to work with the engineer design method and reach their own conclusions about what works and what doesn't.
Uses links to online primary sources to engage readers in further, independent study.
Aligns with the NSTA concept of 3-Dimensional Learning
Meets multiple standards for the National Curriculum Standards for Visual Arts.
Meets multiple standards for the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies.
Meets Common Core State Standards for reading informational text.
Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity.
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