AP Art History: FFCC Pairings

One review activity I enjoy doing at the end of the year is using FFCC charts to compare two pieces from the 250. If you are unfamiliar with this type of activity check out my blog post about ideas for AP Art History review. I like to assign students pairings that breaks their expectations and forces them to really look at two disparate artworks that they do not feel they can find any immediate connection. It is also useful to give them pairings from two very different historic contexts that I may not have made connections to through the year but have clear thematic through lines.

Note: I do not use any artworks from Global Prehistory because we do not have enough outside of form to do a thorough FFCC chart.

I would start with having students discuss with their partner what they remember and write down what they feel sure of – remember, this is a review activity. Once they have exhausted that, then they can use resources (notes, Khan Academy, whatever) to polish off their notes. This takes me about 40 minutes and I put the posters up to use for future review activities, especially to review the format FRQ #1 (Comparison).

This is not an exhaustive list, but just some of my musing of pairings. Feel free to reach out to me to add to this list!

Violence: 16. Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur; 33. Niobides Krater; 40. Alexander Mosaic; 47. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus; 59. Bayeux Tapestry; 45. Column of Trajan; 81. Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza; 94. Screen with the Siege of Belgrade; 119. The Burghers of Calais; 106. Y no hai remedio (And There’s Nothing to Be Done); 132. Improvisation 28; 134. Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht; 182. Buddha. Bamiyan; 203. Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace; 228. Androgyne III
Marriage/Couples: 18. King Menkaura and queen; 29. Sarcophagus of the spouses; 68. The Arnolfini Portrait; 98. The Tête à Tête, from Marriage à la Mode; 128. The Kiss by Klimt; 129.The Kiss by Brancusi; 180. Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife
“Massive” Architecture: 44. Colosseum; 46. Pantheon; 70. Palazzo Rucellai; 82. Il Gesù; 124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building; 135. Villa Savoye; 249. MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Repetition: 117. The Horse in Motion; 124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building; 146. Seagram Building; 147. Marilyn Diptych
The Unseen Workers: 83. Hunters in the Snow; 113. The Stone Breakers; 142. The Jungle
Female Form: 21. Statue of Hatshepsut; 37. Winged Victory of Samothrace; 80. Venus of Urbino; 107. La Grande Odalisque; 115. Olympia; 121. The Coiffure; 126. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon; 145. Woman, I; 173. Female (Pwo) mask; 174. Portrait mask (Mblo); 175. Bundu mask; 217. Female Deity; 247. Preying Mantra
Imperialism: 123. Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?; 169. Wall plaque, from Oba’s palace; 170. Sika dwa kofi (Golden Stool); 223. Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II; 233. Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People); 237. Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000); 245. Old Man’s Cloth
Separation: 79. Allegory of Law and Grace; 141. The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49; 248. Shibboleth;
Politics & Administration: 13. Palette of King Narmer; 15. Seated scribe; 19. The code of Hammurabi; 43. Augustus of Prima Porta; 69. David; 104. George Washington; 137. Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan; 169. Wall plaque, from Oba’s palace; 171. Ndop (portrait figure) of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul; 178. Aka elephant mask; 205. Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417–1475); 208. Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings; 212. Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan; 220. Tamati Waka Nene
Loss & Pain: 41. Seated boxer; 62. Röttgen Pietà; 63. Lamentation from the Arena Chapel; 77. Isenheim altarpiece; 119. The Burghers of Calais; 106. Y no hai remedio (And There’s Nothing to Be Done); 122. The Scream; 134. Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht; 140. The Two Fridas; 228. Androgyne III
Artist Self-Portraits: 87. Self-Portrait with Saskia; 105. Self-Portrait, Vigee Le Brun; 122. The Scream; 133. Self-Portrait as a Soldier; 140. The Two Fridas; 235. Rebellious Silence
Text: 19. The code of Hammurabi (if you include the bottom part); 24. Last judgment of Hunefer; 50. Vienna Genesis; 61. Scenes from the Apocalypse from Bibles moralisées; 187. Folio from a Qur’an; 225. Vietnam Veterans Memorial; 226. Horn Players; 229. A Book from the Sky
Abstracted Landscapes: 120. The Starry Night; 125. Mont Sainte-Victoire; 149. The Bay; 201. Travelers among Mountains and Streams; 210. White and Red Plum Blossoms; 227. Summer Trees; 234. Earth’s Creation
The Sea: 111. Slave Ship; 211. Under the Wave off Kanagawa; 221. Navigation chart
Palaces & Administrative Centers: 20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall; 25. Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II; 30. Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes; 65. Alhambra.; 93. The Palace at Versailles; 112. Palace of Westminster; 161. City of Machu Picchu; 167. Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe; 206. Forbidden City; 213. Nan Madol
Domestic Spaces: 39. House of the Vettii; 70. Palazzo Rucellai; 139. Fallingwater; 154. Mesa Verde cliff dwellings; 152. House in New Castle County
Royal Women: 21. Statue of Hatshepsut; 22. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters; 61. Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France from Bibles moralisées; 155. Lintel 25, Yaxchilán & 86. Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici
Undulating Architecture: 88. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane; 240. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Land as Art: 151. Spiral Jetty; 156. Great Serpent Mound; 207. Ryoan-ji
War Memorials: 150. Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks; 38. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon; 45. Column of Trajan; 225. Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Still-Lifes: 96. Fruit and Insects; 110. Still Life in Studio; 131.Goldfish
Family: 22. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters; 97. Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo; 98. The Tête à Tête (especially the other scenes from Marriage à la Mode)
Prayer: 14. Statues of votive figures; 54. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George; 58. Reliquary from the Church of Sainte-Foy; 77. Isenheim altarpiece
Visions: 82. Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco from Il Gesù; 89. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa; 95. The Virgin of Guadalupe; 122. The Scream; 155. Lintel 25, Yaxchilán; 239. The Crossing; 241. Pure Land
Racism/Slavery: 111. Slave Ship; 141. The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49; 142. The Jungle; 232. Dancing at the Louvre; 243. Darkytown Rebellion
Nationhood/Cultural Identity: 13. Palette of King Narmer; 112. Palace of Westminster; 137. Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan; 143. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park; 236. En la Barberia no se Llora; 238. Electronic Superhighway; 235. Rebellious Silence
Rebellion/Revolution: 103. The Oath of the Horatii; 108. Liberty Leading the People; 137. Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan; 235. Rebellious Silence; 212. Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan; 243. Darkytown Rebellion
Public Spaces: 26. Athenian agora; 44. Colosseum; 45. Forum of Trajan; 155. Yaxchilán; 157. Templo Mayor
The Body in Death: 23. Tutankhamun’s tomb; 27 Anavysos Kouros; 194. Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui).; 196. Gold and jade crown
Body Adornment: 53. Merovingian looped fibulae; 158. Ruler’s feather headdress; 162. All-T’oqapu tunic; 163. Bandolier bag; 196. Gold and jade crown
Symmetry in Architecture: 20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall; 52. Hagia Sophia. Constantinople (Istanbul); 67. Pazzi Chapel; 84. Mosque of Selim II; 88. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane; 112. Palace of Westminster; 146. Seagram Building; 155. Yaxchilán; 168. Great Mosque of Djenne; 181. Petra, Jordan; 209. Taj Mahal.
Virgin Mary: 54. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George; 60. Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière from Chartres Cathedral.; 62. Röttgen Pietà; 66. Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece).; 71. Madonna and Child with Two Angels; 95. The Virgin of Guadalupe
Movement: 116. The Saint-Lazare Station; 117. The Horse in Motion; 130. The Portuguese; 164. Transformation mask; 183. The Kaaba; 218. Buk (mask); 224. The Gates
Urban Spaces: 12. White Temple and its ziggurat; 26. Athenian agora; 70. Palazzo Rucellai; 116. The Saint-Lazare Station; 124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building; 1146. Seagram Building; 157. Templo Mayor; 159. City of Cusco & Walls at Saqsa Waman; 168. Great Mosque of Djenne; 224. The Gates.
“Ordinary:” Objects: 138. Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure); 144. Fountain; 160. Maize cobs; 188. Basin (Baptistere de St. Louis); 233. Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
Performance: 148. Narcissus Garden; 164. Transformation mask; 168. Great Mosque of Djenne; 172. Power figure (Nkisi n’kondi ); 173. Female (Pwo) mask; 174. Portrait mask (Mblo); 175. Bundu mask; 178. Aka elephant mask; 218. Buk (mask); 223. Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II
(Re)Interpreting the past: 13. Palette of King Narmer; 40. Alexander Mosaic; 59. Bayeux Tapestry; 64. Golden Haggadah; 76. School of Athens; 81. Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza; 86. Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici; 94. Screen with the Siege of Belgrade; 103. The Oath of the Horatii; 104. George Washington; 106. Y no hai remedio (And There’s Nothing to Be Done); 108. Liberty Leading the People; 111. Slave Ship; 112. Palace of Westminster; 118. The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel; 119. The Burghers of Calais; 143. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park; 165. Painted elk hide; 169. Wall plaque, from Oba’s palace; 177. Lukasa (memory board); 189. Bahram Gur Fights the Karg; 190. The Court of Gayumars; 203. Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace; 212. Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan; 220. Tamati Waka Nene; 231. Untitled #228, from the History Portraits series; 233. Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People); 244. The Swing (after Fragonard)