For the specified grade level, the Art Resources packet is an unbound, shrink-wrapped set of full-color prints of the artworks listed in the Visual Arts section of the Core Knowledge Sequence. Suggested “looking questions” on the back of each print can prompt discussion and encourage understanding and enjoyment.

Art Prints

I. Art of the Renaissance

• The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
• The Vitruvian Man (The Proportions of Man), Leonardo da Vinci
• Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci
• The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci
• The Creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel ceiling, detail), Michelangelo
• Marriage of the Virgin, Raphael
• The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Raphael
• Saint George, Donatello
• David, Michelangelo
• Dome of the Florence Cathedral, Filippo Brunelleschi
• Dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, Michelangelo
• Peasant Wedding, Pieter Bruegel
• Self-Portrait at 28, Albrecht Dürer
• The Arnolfini Portrait (Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife), Jan van Eyck

II. American Art: Nineteenth-Century United States

• View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm —The Oxbow, Thomas Cole
• The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak, Albert Bierstadt
• Fur Traders Descending the Missouri George, Caleb Bingham
• Eel Spearing at Setauket, William Sidney Mount
• Battery at Attention, Mathew Brady Studio
• The Shaw Memorial, Augustus Saint-Gaudens
• Central Park in Winter, Nathaniel Currier and James M. Ives

III. Art of Japan

• The Great Buddha of Kamakura
• Ryoan-ji Temple Garden
• Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night, Suzuki Harunobu