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| | School Groups and Classes: Carnegie Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | Students examine works by several Impressionist painters (Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt) and discover why their approaches were part of an artistic revolution that paralleled an age of social, scientific, and industrial revolutions. |
 | | This tour focuses on paintings and sculpture from the mid-1800s to the early 20th century that reflect the transformation of the American and European landscape and the lives of the working class. |
 | | Students learn to recognize Medieval and Renaissance artistic styles and techniques while discussing the social and cultural forces that influenced artists during these periods: feudalism, patronage, the church and religious pilgrimages, the guild system, the rebirth of science during the Renaissance, humanism, and the rise of the European middle class. |
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