Products for Homeschooling Art for Young Learners

First Good Reason

Art history fills out the curriculum for independent learners. How? Vasari's art history tells real stories. Vasari also repeats rumors, gossip, and legends about artists. What fun! Students will love the story about Giotto and his teacher Cimabue.

The paintings themselves tell great stories of here and beyond. The artists show pictures of how people became great saints. Artists painted pictures of angels and heaven. What a place for a young imagination. The pictures tell personal, political, and religious stories that parents and teachers can discuss with their children. Renaissance art is rockin' fun.

Second Good Reason

There is more to art history than you may think. Vasari's stories are not just about painting, sculpture, and architecture. Young learners see that artwork showing perspective leads to analytic geometry, relativity, and quantum mechanics. 

Renaissance sculpture depicts very accurately the human body with muscles and bones. This is the human body in all its glory. This is God's creation. Students can consider what the ancient Greeks write about in our ties to the Divine. Anatomy, Philosophy, Theology. Renaissance architecture tells us about the society of the time. A lot to think about.

Third Good Reason

Vasari wrote the first complete art history. His book is more than names, dates, and pictures. His account asks learners to think critically, an important skill today. Suppose that student wants to become an engineer, scientist, or physician—analysis and critical thinking define these careers.

Writing is another important skill. This works for term papers, tests, and admissions. And if you want to be a lawyer, get used to writing now. These are excellent skills to have, no matter where a young person wants to go in life.  See? Excellent skills.

Forth Good Reason

How much do you READ on your computer? How much do you SEE on your computer? Our world is visual. Phone cameras. Zoom. Video games. TV. Movies. All visual. We ask our brains to process immense amounts of images from the time we wake until we fall asleep—and even then, some of us are vivid dreamers.

Learning is much more visual. Art History gives young learners the tools to analyze imagery and visual symbols. Think of it as a type of language, one that allows the user to successfully navigate new territory.

Fifth Good Reason

Vasari's art history tells about the greatest time of history—the Renaissance. This is OUR history. Perhaps a portrait depicts your ancestor. Perhaps a landscape shows trees and flowers that you grow in your backyard. Perhaps figures show divine beings that you revere. God inspires talented artists to tell us the meaning of life. These are stories to hold dear to our hearts. Going to a visual concert is exhilarating, so get your ticket and go through the gate. You will discover visual evidence of who and where you came from.

This is about YOU.