2007-2008 TERM 1 Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian High Renaissance (composers: Russian National)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leonardo.html
A lovely website of DaVinci’s art
Notebooks, translated into English
     1. Genevra, which is in the NGA 1474-1476
     2. The Virgin of the Rocks 1483-86
     3. Lady with Ermine 1483-90
     4. The Last Supper 1498 “One of the most complex paintings in the Western tradition in depicting
          a variety of psychological reactions and internal states all focussed on asingle, non-reacting center,
          the figure of Jesus of Nazareth. In thebewildering variety of reactions immediately following Jesus’s
          announcement of his coming betrayal, Leonardo in visual terms manifests what Pico della Mirandola
          and others were saying about the variety and unpredictability of human beings.” See more here.
     5. Mona Lisa 1503-06  detail and text
     6. Self-portrait c. 1512
Book suggestion: Katie Meets the Mona Lisa, by James Mayhew.
     (For Canadians: This picture book also appeared in The Art Issue of Chickadee magazine,
     a special issue which still shows up regularly at yard sales.)
Video suggestion: “Leonardo: A Dream of Flight,” one of The Inventors’ Specials by Devine Entertainment.
For special interest: Study of Cat Movements and Positions 1517-18

2007-2008 TERM 2 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Dutch Baroque (composer Handel, Baroque)

2007-2008 TERM 3 Jan Van Eyck (1395-1441) Flemish Northern Renaissance (composer Saint-Saens and Berlioz, Early Romantic)

2008-2009 TERM 1 (?) (composer Bach, Baroque)

2008-2009 TERM 2 (?) (composer Liszt, Romantic)

2008-2009 TERM 3 Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch Post-Impressionist (composers Mahler and Bruckner, Late Romantic)

2009-2010 TERM 1 Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) Italian High Renaissance (composers Vaughan Williams and Elgar, 20th Century British)

2009-2010 TERM 2 John Singer-Sargent (1856-1925) American (composer Grieg and Sibelius, nationalists)

2009-2010 TERM 3 Claude Monet (1840-1926) French Impressionist  (composer Ravel, Impressionist)

2010-2011 TERM 1 Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) Italian Renaissance (composer Beethoven, Classical/Romantic)

2010-2011 TERM 2 Caravaggio (1571-1610) Italian Baroque (composer Vivaldi, Baroque)

2010-2011 TERM 3 (?) (composer Chopin, Romantic)

2011-2012 TERM 1 Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) French Rococo (composer Mozart, Early classical/Rococo)

2011-2012 TERM 2 (?) (composer Mendelssohn, Romantic)

2011-2012 TERM 3 Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)  American Illustrator (composer Bartok and Hindermith)