On to the 2nd Grade....Art again.

So, I think the previous posts cover the first year of school thoroughly, now on to the second year...

I will start with art again. We will continue with our study of great artists and their works. Here is my tentative outline:

Albrecht Durer (Self Portrait at 28, Stag Beetle)
Michelangelo (The Creation of Adam, The Last Judgment, The Pieta, The Sistine Chapel, David, Moses). I will be covering up the genitals on the statue of David when I show it to my kids. I don't want to condone nudity in art, since the Bible repeatedly equates nakedness with shame (outside of the marriage bed, of course), but David is such a beautiful and iconic work that we cannot pass over it. I should also mention that later in his life Michelangelo regretted his early use of nudity in his art (God and the History of Art by Barry Stebbing).
Titian (David and Goliath, Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence, Flora, St. John the Baptist)
Raphael (Sistine Madonna, The Visitation, the Marriage of the Virgin, Madonna and Child with Book, The School of Athens, Pope Julius II)
Tintoretto (Christ at the Sea of Galilee, The Paradise, The Maundy, St. George and the Dragon, Wedding Feast at Cana)
Peter Brueghel (The Painter and the Buyer, The Blind Leading the Blind, Hunters in the Snow, Children's Games)
El Greco (St. John the Baptist, Madonna and Child with St. Martina and St. Agnes, View of Toledo, St. Paul, The Burial of Count Orgasz)
Peter Paul Rubens (Head of a Girl, Entombment, Daniel in the Lion's Den).

Since I am not sure if I will have too many or too few pieces when I am done deciding which pieces to study, this outline and the one for the first year art history may change later.

As always, I would love to hear from you if you think I missed a piece or an artist that is important (or if you think I included ones I shouldn't).

God bless.