About this book
This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter focuses on a great painting, reproduced in color in the original text. The authors explain the story behind the paintings, as well as the life, times, and techniques of the artists.You may find downloadable versions of all sixteen paintings at http://www.archive.org/details/Book_of_Art_Illustrations_lv, and you can easily do a google search for the other artworks mentioned in the book. (Summary by Kara)
Chapters (15)
1Introduction
2The Thirteenth Century in Europe
3Richard II
4The Van Eycks
5The Renaissance
6Raphael
7The Renaissance in Venice
8The Renaissance in the North
9Rembrandt
10Peter de Hoogh and Cuyp
11Van Dyck
12Velasquez
13Reynolds and the Eighteenth Century
14Turner
15The Nineteenth Century

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