Friday, January 22, 2016

Europe political map




Activities:

      European countries:
            - Click on the right country: activity 1, activity 2, activity 3,
                 activity 4activity 5, activity 6 and activity 7.
            - Choose: activity 1.
            - Puzzle 1puzzle 2puzzle 3puzzle 4 and puzzle 5.
            - Write the name: activity 1 and activity 2.

      European countries and capitals:
             - Click on the right answer: activity 1.

      European capitals:
            - Click on the countries to learn their capitals.
            - Click on the capital: activity 1, activity 2, activity 3,
                   activity 4 and activity 5.
            - Choose: activity 1.
            - Puzzle 1 and puzzle 2.
            - Write the name: activity 1.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

United Nations

The History of the United Nations: video.

United Nations explained: video.

United Nations by...
      Factmonster.
      Britannica kids.
      Encyclopedia.com.

Explaining the United Nations to kids.


United Nations.


UN official website.

      The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
             The history of Human Rights (video).
             Human Rights explained in a beautiful two minutes animation (video).
             Everybody - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (video).
            About... The Univesal Declaration of Human Rights: video.
            The 30 Articles of Human Rights (video).
            Read and listen to the 30 articles of the Human Rights: video.

      Funds, Programmes, Specialized Agencies and Others.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Romanticism Art Movement

Wanderer Above the Fog
(1881, Caspar David Friedrich)
Definition.

Neoclassicism and Romanticism.

Art History and artists: Romanticism.

Romanticism. More information about the Romanticism Artvideo.
The Metropolitam Museum of Art (N.Y.) explanation.

Painting:
      - Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            The complete works.
                  Liberty Leading the People.
                  The Massacre at Chios.
                  Death of Sardanapalus.

      - Théodore Géricault (1791-1824): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Charging Chausser / Mounted Officer of the Imperial Guard.
            The Raft of the Medusa.

      - John Constable (1776-1837): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            The Opening of  Waterloo Bridge.

      - William Turner (1775-1851): short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Rain, Steam and Speed.

      - Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
           The complete works.


Sculpture:
      - Françoise Rude (1784-1855): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            List of works. Another piece of information about his artworks.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Neoclassical Art / Neoclassicism

Roman Ruins and Sculpture (1758, Giovanni Paolo Pannini)
Definition.

Classicism and Neoclassicism.

Neoclassicism: video 1 and video 2.
Art in Neoclassicism.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) explantion.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann: biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.


Architecture:
      - Jacques-Germain Soufflot: biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Pantheon Paris.
                  The Panthéon (Paris).

Sculpture:
      - Antonio Canova: biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Museum of Antonio Canova: Museo Canova.
            Cupid and Psyche.
            Paolina Borghese as Venus Victorius.
            The Three Graces.

Painting:
      - Jacques-Louis David: biography 1biography 2 and biography 3.
            Famous paintings by Jacques-Louis David.
            The complete works.
                  Death of Marat.
                  Napoleon crossing the Alps.
                  The Oath of the Horatii.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016