AP Art History Course Content
Below, you will find course content relevant to the new AP Art History curriculum re-design. Documents include slideshow presentations, study guides and images for slide identifications on quizzes and tests. Links are updated as we move through the content. Feel free to type your study guide, if you're so inclined.
IMPORTANT!: When printing Slide ID images from a powerpoint, be sure to set it to print "handouts" or you will end up printing full-page images that will blow through your printer's toner (click "file:, then "print", then change "Print what:" from "slides" to "handouts", then select "9 slides per page")
IMPORTANT!: When printing Slide ID images from a powerpoint, be sure to set it to print "handouts" or you will end up printing full-page images that will blow through your printer's toner (click "file:, then "print", then change "Print what:" from "slides" to "handouts", then select "9 slides per page")
Introduction
Intro to Art History
Critical Analysis: Instructions and Rubric
Test Essay: Rubric
Formal Analysis: Rubric
Snapshots: Instructions and Rubric
Critical Analysis: Instructions and Rubric
Test Essay: Rubric
Formal Analysis: Rubric
Snapshots: Instructions and Rubric
Content Area 1: Global Prehistory, 30,000–500 B.C.E.
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 B.C.E.–300 C.E.
Part 1: Ancient Near East & Egypt
Part 2: Greece and Rome
REVIEW:
Study Guide: Chapter 2 (Art of Ancient Near East)
Study Guide: Chapter 3 (Art of Ancient Egypt)
Study Guide: Chapter 5 (Art of Ancient Greece)
Study Guide: Chapter 6 (Etruscan and Roman Art)
Slide ID's: Image Set
Part 2: Greece and Rome
REVIEW:
Study Guide: Chapter 2 (Art of Ancient Near East)
Study Guide: Chapter 3 (Art of Ancient Egypt)
Study Guide: Chapter 5 (Art of Ancient Greece)
Study Guide: Chapter 6 (Etruscan and Roman Art)
Slide ID's: Image Set
Content Area 3: Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200–1750 C.E.
Part 1: Early Christian through Gothic
REVIEW:
Study Guide: Chapter 7 (Early Christian & Byzantine)
Study Guide: Chapter 14 & 15 (Medieval & Romanesque)
Study Guide: Chapter 16 & 17 (Gothic and Fourteenth Century Europe)
Slide ID's
Part 2: Renaissance through Baroque
REVIEW:
Study Guide: Chapter 19 & 20 (15th and 16th Century Italy)
Study Guide: Chapter 18 & 21 (15th and 16th Century Northern Europe)
Study Guide: Chapter 22 (17th Century Art in Europe)
Slide ID's
REVIEW:
Study Guide: Chapter 7 (Early Christian & Byzantine)
Study Guide: Chapter 14 & 15 (Medieval & Romanesque)
Study Guide: Chapter 16 & 17 (Gothic and Fourteenth Century Europe)
Slide ID's
Part 2: Renaissance through Baroque
REVIEW:
Study Guide: Chapter 19 & 20 (15th and 16th Century Italy)
Study Guide: Chapter 18 & 21 (15th and 16th Century Northern Europe)
Study Guide: Chapter 22 (17th Century Art in Europe)
Slide ID's
Content Area 4: Later Europe and Americas, 1750–1980 C.E.
Part 1: Rococo through Romanticism
Part 2: Modernism in Nineteenth Century
Part 3: Modernism in Twentieth Century
REVIEW:
Study Guide: Chapter 29 (18th and Early 19th C. Art in Europe and America)
Study Guide: Chapter 30 (Mid to Late 19th C. Art in Europe and America)
Study Guide: Chapter 31 (Modern Art in Europe and America, 1900-1950)
Slide ID's
Part 2: Modernism in Nineteenth Century
Part 3: Modernism in Twentieth Century
REVIEW:
Study Guide: Chapter 29 (18th and Early 19th C. Art in Europe and America)
Study Guide: Chapter 30 (Mid to Late 19th C. Art in Europe and America)
Study Guide: Chapter 31 (Modern Art in Europe and America, 1900-1950)
Slide ID's
Content Area 5: Indigenous Americas, 1000 B.C.E.–1980 C.E.
Content Area 6: Africa, 1100–1980 C.E.
Content Area 7: West and Central Asia, 500 B.C.E.–1980 C.E.
West and Central Asia & Art of Islam in Europe
GROUP PROJECT: Illustrated Snapshots
REVIEW: Study Guide / Slide ID's
GROUP PROJECT: Illustrated Snapshots
REVIEW: Study Guide / Slide ID's