New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations

Most Wanted Art Recovery Project
Vermeer's “The Concert“, Renoir's “Portrait of a Young Parisian“, almost the entire collection of The National Museum of Iraq - all of these art works have disappeared. This site lists and describes stolen artworks from around the world.
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Social Studies: History

  Curriculum Standard 16
Students will demonstrate the ability to employ historical analysis, interpretation, and comprehension to make reasoned judgments and to gain an understanding, perspective, and appreciation of history and its uses in contemporary situations.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding that people, artifacts, and documents represent links to the past and that they are sources of data from which historical accounts are constructed.

The Arts: Visual Art

  Curriculum Standard 4
Analyze the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:

  • Compare the characteristics of works of art representing various cultures, historical periods, and artists.


  • Describe and place a variety of art objects by style and artist, and by historical and cultural contexts.


  • Describe how a given work of art can be interpreted differently in various cultures and time.


  • Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:

  • Differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art.


  • Analyze relationships among works of art in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, using their observations to inform their own art making.


  • Understand various critical models of interpreting works from several historical periods and cultures.


  • Analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations of meaning.