Tech Tools, Image Libraries Transforming Art History Classes

Education Week: Over the course of an academic year, AP Art History teachers must get their students to respond emotionally and intellectually to artworks that are often found in galleries or historic sites thousands of miles away.

The college-level course covers pieces that include Emperor Qin’s Terra Cotta Warriors, buried in China’s Shaanxi province, and Caravaggio’s “Calling of St. Matthew,” which hangs in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, a few blocks from the Pantheon in Rome.

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