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AP ART HISTORY SYLLABUS AND CALENDAR​AP ART HISTORY SYLLABUS
 
AP ART HISTORY SYLLABUS and CALENDAR
2024-25 
Aquinas High School
Teacher: Samantha Wahlen
 
Introduction
 
The AP Art History course welcomes students into the global art world to engage with its forms and content as they research, discuss, read, and write about art, artists, art making, and responses to and interpretations of art. By investigating specific course content of 250 works of art characterized by diverse artistic traditions from prehistory to the present, the students develop in-depth, holistic understanding of the history of art from a global perspective. Students learn and apply skills of visual, contextual, and comparative analysis to engage with a variety of forms, developing understanding of individual works and interconnections across history. 
 
Textbooks, Resources, and Supplies

  • Three-ring binder for notes
  • Kleenex (for the classroom)
  • Teacher website: www.arthistory-at-aquinas.com
  • https://smarthistory.org (primary website for the course; can also be accessed through KhanAcademy)
  • Fred Kleiner’s Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 14th edition (teacher provided)
 
Daily Grades

  • Collaborative Quizzes and Assignments (Students will work together in assigned groups to answer questions or participate in group activities.)
  • Homework Assignments and Quizzes (Students will prepare for topics of discussion. Usually, on the first day of the week, a quiz covering homework assignments and information learned in class so far will be given. Students can use their notes for these.) 
  • Graphic Organizers (Students will turn in notes taken on handouts from the three-ring binder.)
  • Art Activities (Students will participate in selected art activities that extend learning and understanding of the course content.)
  • Presentations (Students may be asked to present information to the class in short, brief presentations.)
 
 
Major Grades

  • Nearpod Assignments Students will complete Nearpod assignments to practice answering multiple-choice questions.
  • Out-of-Class Individualized Assignments Students will be required to create handwritten responses to free-response questions throughout the semester. Most of these free-response questions will originate from previous AP exams. Other types of out-of-class individualized assignments may be given.
  • Individualized Assessments (Exams) Students will individually create written responses to a question or prompt.
 
Makeups

  • Daily Grades Students do not need to makeup assigned daily work. Students, however may receive a zero if the absence is unexcused. If excused, the student will be exempted from this requirement.
  • Major Grades Students must makeup individualized assessments. Questions on makeup individualized assessments differ from those given in class. A student must have an excused absence to makeup an individualized assessment. Makeups are generally given on Thursdays.
 
Late Work

  • Work that is turned in late will receive a deduction of 10 points per school day. PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF WHERE TO TURN IN MAKEUP WORK.
 


​FIRST NINE WEEKS
 
WED Aug 14
            Introduction
            
THURS Aug 15
Visual/Contextual Analysis
  • Apollo 11 Stones
  • Running Horned Woman
FRI Aug 15
  • Hall of the Bulls
  • Beaker with Ibex Motifs
 

MON Aug 19 - Min Day
 OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Camelid Sacrum
  • Great Zimbabwe
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit One
TUES Aug 20 - No Class
WED Aug 21
  • Stonehenge
  • Great Mosque of Djenne
THURS Aug 22
  • Wall Plaque, from Oba’s Palace
  • Ndop figure
  • Bundu Mask
FRI Aug 23
  • Golden Stool
  • Ikenga shrine figure
 

MON Aug 26 - Min Day
 OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Aka elephant mask
  • Fang reliquary figure
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit One
TUES Aug 27 - No Class
WED Aug 28
  • Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife
  • Portrait (mblo) mask
THURS Aug 29
          Female pwo mask
  • Kongo Power figure
  • Lukasa Memory board
FRI Aug 30
  • Ambum Stone
  • Maoi on platform
 

MON Sept 2
            LABOR DAY (HOLIDAY)
 TUES Sept 3 - No Class
 
WED Sept 4
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Nan Madol
  • Buk (mask) from Torres Strait
  • Nukuoro female deity
  • Navigation Chart of Marshall Islands
  • Hiapo (tapa) 
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit One
  • Malagan Mask display
THURS Sept 5
  • Tamati Waka Nene
  • ‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape)
  • Staff god from the Cook Islands
FRI Sept 6 - Liturgy Schedule
            UNIT ONE EXAM
 
SCHEDULE UPDATED ON 9/10/24*******************************************************

 MON Sept 16 - Min Day
  • Kngwarreye’s Earth’s Creation (painting activity)
  • Homework: El Anatsui’s Old Man’s Cloth
TUES Sept 17 - No Class
WED Sept 18​
  • Unit 1 Exam

THURS Sept 19
           White Temple and Ziggurat
  • Votive Figures from Tell Asmar
  • Standard of Ur
FRI Sept 20
  • Palette of King Narmer
    • Homework: 
      • Anthropomorphic Stele
      • Lamassu from Dur Sharrukin
      • Audience Hall at Persepolis
      • King Menkaura and queen
      • Seated Scribe
 
MON Sept 23 - Regular Schedule
 OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Anthropomorphic Stele
  • Lamassu from Dur Sharrukin
  • Audience Hall at Persepolis
  • King Menkaura and queen
  • Seated Scribe
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit TWO
TUES Sept 24 - No Class
WED Sept 25
  • Great Pyramids at Gizeh
THURS Sept 26
​           Code of Hammurabi
  • Judgment of Hunefer
  • Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
FRI Sept 27
  • Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak
    • Homework: 
  • Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three Daughters
  • Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin
  • Anavysos Kouros
  • Peplos Kore

 
 MON Sept 30 - Min Schedule
 OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three Daughters
  • Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin
  • Anavysos Kouros
  • Peplos Kore
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit TWO

TUES Oct 1 - No Class
WED Oct 2
  • Doryphoros
  • Parthenon
THURS Oct 3
  • Niobid Krater
  • Winged Victory of Samothrace
FRI Oct 4
  • Seated Boxer
Homework: 
  • Grave Stele of Hegeso
  • Alexander Mosaic
  • Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
 
 MON Oct 7 - Min Day
 OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Grave Stele of Hegeso
  • Alexander Mosaic
  • Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit TWO
TUES Oct 8 - No Class

WED Oct 9
     UNIT TWO EXAM
(PSAT Day)
THURS Oct 10
  • Sarcophagus of the Spouses
  • Tomb of the Triclinium
  • House of the Vettii
FRI Oct 11
  • Temple of Minerva
 
******************************************* END OF EDITS 9/10/24*******************************************
MON Oct 7 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Pantheon
  • Colosseum
  • Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit THREE
TUES Oct 8 - No Class
WED Oct 9
  • Head of a Roman patrician
  • Augustus of Primaporta
THURS Oct 10
  • Forum and Column of Trajan
  • Catacomb of Priscilla
FRI Oct 11 - QUARTER 1 ENDS
  • Santa Sabina
 
 

SECOND NINE WEEKS
 
MON Oct 14 - Liturgy Schedule
NO OUTSIDE WORKS ASSIGNED
  • Petra
TUES Oct 15 - No Class
WED Oct 16
  • Vienna Genesis
  • Hagia Sophia
THURS Oct 17
           San Vitale in Ravenna
  • Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
FRI Oct 18
            UNIT THREE EXAM
 

MON Oct 21 - Regular Schedule
NO OUTSIDE WORKS ASSIGNED
  • Kaaba 
TUES Oct 22 - No Class
WED Oct 23
  • Dome of the Rock
  • Pyxis of al-Mughira
THURS Oct 24
  • Mosque of Cordoba
  • Mosque of Isfahan
  • Mosque of Selim II
FRI Oct 25 - No School
 

MON Oct 28 - Min Day
 OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Folio from a Qu’ran
  • Basin (Baptistere de St. Louis)
  • Ardabil Carpet
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit FOUR
TUES Oct 29 - No Class
           
WED Oct 30
  • Alhambra
THURS Oct 31
  • Bahram Gur Fights the Karg
  • Court of Gayumars
  • Merovingian Looped Fibulae
FRI Nov 1 - Liturgy Schedule
  • Lindisfarne Gospels
  • Class Activity - Celtic Knots
 

 
MON Nov 4 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Dedication Page with Blanche of Castille and King Louis IX of France
  • Rottgen Pieta
  • Golden Haggadah
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit FOUR
TUES Nov 5 - No Class
WED Nov 6
  • Church of Ste. Foy
  • Bayeux Tapestry
THURS Nov 7
  • Chartres Cathedral
  • Giotto’s Arena Chapel
FRI Nov 8
  UNIT FOUR EXAM
 

 
 MON Nov 11 - Liturgy
 NO OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Great Stupa at Sanchi
  • Shiva as Nataraja
 TUES Nov 12 - No Class
         
WED Nov 13
  • Lakshmana Temple
  • Borobudur
THURS Nov 14
  • Bamiyan Buddhas
  • Longmen Caves
  • Angkor Wat
FRI Nov 15
  • Jahangir preferring a Sufi

 

MON Nov 18 - Min Day
NO OUTSIDE WORKS ASSIGNED
  • Taj Mahal
TUES Nov 19 - No Class
WED Nov 20
  • Terracotta Soldiers
  • Jade cong
THURS Nov 21
  • Funeral Banner of Lady Dai
  • David Vases
  • Gold and Jade Crown
FRI Nov 22
  • Fan Kuan’s Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (Chinese landscape activity)
 
MON Nov 25 - FRI Nov 29
THANKSGIVING BREAK

MON Dec 2 - REGULAR SCHEDULE
NO OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Forbidden City
 TUES Dec 3 - No Class

WED Dec 4
  • Todai-ji
  • Portrait of Sin Sukju
THURS Dec 5
  • Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace
  • Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
  • Ryoan-ji (Rock garden painting activity)
FRI Dec 6
  • White and Red Plum Blossoms

MON Dec 9 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Xu Bing’s Book from the Sky
  • Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds
  • Mariko Mori’s Pure Land
  • QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit FIVE
TUE Dec 10 - No Class

WED Dec 11
  • Under the Wave off Kanagawa
THURS Day 12
  UNIT FIVE EXAM
FRI Dec 13
REVIEW FOR SEMESTER EXAMS

MON Dec 16 – FRI Dec 20
            SEMESTER EXAM WEEK
 
Mon Dec 23- Mon Jan 6
            WINTER BREAK
 


THIRD NINE WEEKS
 
MON Jan 6
            STUDENT HOLIDAY
TUES Jan 7 - No Class (Blue Schedule)
WED Jan 8
  • Merode Altarpiece
THURS Jan 9
  • Arnolfini Portrait
FRI Jan 10
  • Filippo Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel
  • Leon Battista Alberti’s Palazzo Rucellai
 
MON Jan 13 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Fra Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels
  • Matthias Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece
  • QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit SIX






























TUES Jan 14 - No Class
WED Jan 15
  • Donatello’s David
THURS Jan 16
  • Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
  • Titian’s Venus of Urbino
FRI Jan 17
  • Albrecht Durer’s Adam and Eve
 
MON Jan 20
            STUDENT HOLIDAY
TUES Jan 21 - No Class

WED Jan 22OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Lucas Cranach’s Allegory of Law and Grace
  • Pontormo’s Entombment of Christ
  • Raphael’s School of Athens
  • QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit SIX
  • Leonardo’s Last Supper
THURS Jan 23
  • Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling
  • Pieter Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow
FRI Jan 24
  • Michelangelo’s Last Judgment
 
 MON Jan 27 - No Class (Blue Schedule)

TUES Jan 28 - Liturgy Schedule
 OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Templo Mayor
  • Coyolxauhqui Stone
  • Calendar Stone
QUIZ over works covered so far in Units SIX and SEVEN
  • Aztec ruler’s feather Headdress
WED Jan 29
  • Olmec-style mask
  • Yaxchilan 
THURS Jan 30
  • Tlatilco Figure (clay activity) 
FRI Jan 31
  • Chavin de Huantar 
 
MON Feb 3 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • City of Cusco (Qorikancha and Saqsa Waman)
  • Machu Picchu
  • All-T’oqapu Tunic
QUIZ over works covered so far in Units SIX and SEVEN

TUES Feb 4 - No Class
WED Feb 5
  • Great Serpent Mound
  • Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
THURS Feb 6
  • Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninas
  • Juan Rodriquez Juarez’s Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo
  • Frontispiece to Codex Mendoza
FRI Feb 7
  • Miguel Cabrera’s Portrait of Sor Juana de la Cruz
  • Miguel Gonzalez’s Virgin of Guadalupe
























MON Feb 10 - No School

TUES Feb 11 - No Class
WED Feb 12
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Mesa Verde
  • Painted elk hide
  • Maria Martinez’s Black-on-black ceramic vessel
  • QUIZ over works covered so far in Units SIX and SEVEN
  • Transformation Mask
THURS Feb 13
  • Master of Calamarca’s Angel with Arquebus
  • Bandolier Bag
  • Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene
FRI Feb 14 - Liturgy Schedule
​EXAM for UNITS SIX and SEVEN
 
MON Feb 17- FRI Feb 21
            WINTER HOLIDAY

MON Feb 24 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Il Gesu
TUE Feb 25 - No Class
WED Feb 26
  • Gaulli’s Triumph in the Name of Jesus
  • Francesco Borrmini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
THURS Feb 27
  • Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew
  • Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
  • Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance
  • Rembrandt van Rijn’s Self-Portrait with Saskia
 FRI Feb 28
  • Peter Paul Rubens’ Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’Medici
  • Versailles


MON Mar 3 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Rachel Ruysch’s Fruit and Insects
  • William Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode
  • Jean-Honore Fragonard’s The Swing
  • Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun’s Self Portrait
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit EIGHT
TUES Mar 4 - No School
WED Mar 5 - Liturgy Schedule
  • Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii
THURS Mar 6
  • Jean-Antoine Houdon’s George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
FRI Mar 7
​            Joseph Wright of Derby’s A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery
  • Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres’ La Grande Odalisque
  • Edouard Manet’s Olympia
 
 
MON Mar 10 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Francisco Goya’s And There’s Nothing to Be Done
  • Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow
  • Jose Maria Velasco’s The Valley of Mexico
  • Gustave Courbet’s The Stone Breakers
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit EIGHT
TUES Mar 11 - No Class
WED Mar 12
  • Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People
  • J.M.W. Turner’s Slave Ship
THURS Mar 13
  • Houses of Parliament
  • Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre’s Still Life in Studio
  • Honore Daumier’s Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art
FRI Mar 14 - QUARTER 3 ENDS
  • Art Activity
 
 
MON Mar 17 - Regular Schedule
NO OUTSIDE WORKS ASSIGNED
  • Eadweard Muybridge’s Horse in Motion
  • Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage
TUES Mar 18 - No Class

WED Mar 19
  • Claude Monet’s Gare St. Lazare
THURS Mar 20
  • Paul Cezanne’s Mont Sainte Victoire (painting activity)
FRI Mar 21
  • Mary Cassatt’s The Coiffure
  • Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
 

MON Mar 24 - Regular Schedule
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Auguste Rodin’s Burghers of Calais
  • Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss
  • Constantin Brancusi’s The Kiss
  • Henri Matisse’s Goldfish
QUIZ over works covered so far in Units EIGHT and NINE
  • Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night

TUES March 25 - No Class
WED March 26
  • Paul Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
  • Edvard Munch’s The Scream
THURS March 27
  • Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisation 28
  • Julie Mehretu’s Stadia II
FRI March 28 - Min Day
  • Georges Braque’s The Portuguese
 

 
 MON March 31 - Min Day
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Self-Portrait as a Soldier
  • Kathe Kollwitz’s Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht
  • Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
  • Varvara Stepanova’s Results of the First Five-Year Plan
QUIZ over works covered so far in Units EIGHT and NINE
TUES Apr 1 - No Class
WED Apr 2
  • Louis Sullivan’s Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
  • Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building
THURS Apr 3
  • Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
FRI Apr 4
  • Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain
  • Meret Oppenheim’s Object
 

 
MON Apr 7 - Regular Schedule
NO OUTSIDE WORKS ASSIGNED
           EXAM for UNITS EIGHT and NINE
TUES Apr 8 - Regular Schedule
  • Frida Kahlo’s The Two Fridas
  • Wifredo Lam’s The Jungle
WED Apr 9 - Liturgy Schedule
  • Diego Rivera’s Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park
  • Jacob Lawrence’s Migration of the Negro
THURS Apr 10 - Liturgy Schedule
  • Willem de Kooning’s Woman I
  • Helen Frankenthaler’s The Bay
FRI Apr 11 - Liturgy Schedule
  • Robert Venturi’s House in New Castle County
  • Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden

MON April 14 - FRI April 25
EASTER BREAK
 
MON Apr 28 - Min Day
NO OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Christo and Jeanne Claude’s The Gates
TUES Apr 29 - No Class
WED Apr 30
  • Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych
  • Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial






THURS May 1
  • Claes Oldenburg’s Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
  • Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway
  • Bill Viola’s The Crossing
FRI May 2 - Liturgy
  • Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #228
  • Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence 






MON May 5 - Regular
OUTSIDE ASSIGNED WORKS:
  • Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Androgyne III
  • Jeff Koon’s Pink Panther
  • Kiki Smith’s Lying with the Wolf
  • Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth
QUIZ over works covered so far in Unit TEN
TUES May 6 - No Class
WED May 7
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Horn Players
  • Faith Ringgold’s Dancing at the Louvre
THURS May 8
  • Kara Walker’s Darkytown Rebellion
  • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
  • Pepon Osorio’s No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop 
FRI May 9
  • Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
  • Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts

MON May 12 - Regular Schedule
EXAM for UNIT TEN

TUE May 13 - No Class
WED May 14
     FINAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM (MULTIPLE CHOICE)

THUR May 15
     AP EXAM