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The High Renaissance and Art Historiography (1490–1520)
11th Grade · Arts · UK A-Level
5 lessons
Goal
Master the monumental achievements of High Renaissance painting and architecture in Rome and evaluate the historiographical legacy established by Vasari.
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Standards Covered
- ARTHIST-1.1General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11the influential artists and art of key historical movements, periods and types of art (see appendix 11)
- ARTHIST-1.2General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11how the work of influential artists typifies the key movements, periods and types of art
- ARTHIST-2.2General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11composition
- ARTHIST-1.6General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11how cultural, social, political and technological factors have influenced artists
- ARTHIST-2.10General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11how the form of works is influenced by:
- ARTHIST-2.12General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11style
- ARTHIST-1.3General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11art historical terms and concepts including those relevant to specific movements, periods, and types of art (see appendix 1)
- ARTHIST-1.9General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11how art historical movements/periods have been influenced by other movements/periods
- ARTHIST-1.10General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · History-of-art · Year 13 (A2 Level) · Grade 11critical texts that discuss specific artists’ work, their contribution and influences
Curriculum Framework
11th Grade · Arts · UK A-Level
1
12 lessons
Formal Visual Analysis: Painting
Analyse two-dimensional artworks using precise art historical terminology, formal visual elements, and technical processes.
2
10 lessons
Formal Visual Analysis: Sculpture
Evaluate three-dimensional sculptural forms through materials, spatial interaction, volume, mass, and surface treatment.
3
6 lessons
Architectural Structure, Systems, and Materials
Interpret architectural drawings and evaluate how classical orders, load-bearing structural systems, and construction materials shape architectural form.
4
6 lessons
Architectural Space, Context, and Visual Analysis
Analyse spatial experience, lighting, ornament, programmatic function, and site context to craft formal architectural visual analysis essays.
5
10 lessons
Themes in Art: Nature in Art and Architecture
Examine how natural landscapes, botanical forms, pastoral ideals, and sublime environments have been represented and interpreted.
6
11 lessons
Themes in Art: Identities in Art and Architecture
Critically evaluate how gender, social class, religious affiliation, ethnicity, and national identity are constructed and contested.
7
10 lessons
Themes in Art: War in Art and Architecture
Analyse how armed conflict, commemoration, protest, and state propaganda have shaped visual art and public monuments.
8
7 lessons
The Early Renaissance: Humanism, Innovation, and Naturalism (1420–1490)
Examine the foundational ideas, civic patronage, and stylistic innovations of the 15th-century Florentine and Northern European Renaissance.
9
5 lessons
The High Renaissance and Art Historiography (1490–1520)
Master the monumental achievements of High Renaissance painting and architecture in Rome and evaluate the historiographical legacy established by Vasari.
10
10 lessons
Period Study: Power and Persuasion: The Baroque in Catholic Europe (1597–1685)
Analyse how Catholic Counter-Reformation doctrine, absolutist monarchies, and dramatic visual rhetoric shaped 17th-century Baroque art.
11
12 lessons
Period Study: Rebellion and Revival: The Avant-Garde in Britain and France (1848–1899)
Critically assess how industrialisation, political revolutions, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Realism, and Impressionism overturned academic conventions.
12
6 lessons
Early Modernist Revolutions: Colour, Form, and Abstraction (1900–1914)
Investigate the radical pre-WWI avant-garde movements that dismantled classical representation, from Fauvism and Cubism to Futurism and German Expressionism.
13
6 lessons
Interwar Avant-Gardes: Dada, the Bauhaus, and Totalitarian Reaction (1914–1939)
Evaluate how the First World War and interwar politics transformed European art, functional design, Surrealist psychology, and state-controlled aesthetics.
14
10 lessons
Period Study: Pop Life: Contemporary Art and Architecture in Britain and the USA (1960–2015)
Analyse the rise of Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Postmodern Architecture, the YBAs, and global contemporary installations.
15
10 lessons
Critical Texts, Curatorship, and Art Historical Methodologies
Apply art historical methodologies (formalism, iconography, Marxism, feminism, post-colonialism) and evaluate curatorial practices.
16
8 lessons
Thematic Study: Nature in Art and Architecture
Analyse how artists and architects across diverse historical periods have observed, idealised, manipulated, and responded to the natural world.
17
8 lessons
Thematic Study: Identities in Art and Architecture
Examine how visual art and architecture express, construct, reinforce, and subvert individual, gender, social class, national, and ethnic identities.
18
8 lessons
Thematic Study: War in Art and Architecture
Evaluate how armed conflict, state propaganda, trauma, destruction, and commemoration are negotiated in visual art and civic architecture.
19
8 lessons
Formal Visual Analysis and Unseen Works
Master precise art historical visual analysis across unseen paintings, sculptures, and architectural structures under timed examination conditions.
20
8 lessons
Critical Texts, Historiography, and Advanced Art Historical Argumentation
Evaluate seminal art historical texts and theoretical frameworks to construct sophisticated, evidenced critical judgements and arguments.
21
8 lessons
Comparative Synthesis, Artistic Influences, and Unseen Cross-Media Evaluation
Analyse cross-movement influences, stylistic evolution, and interdependencies across painting, sculpture, and architecture using unseen works.