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)
Genre(s): Young Readers, Children’s Non-fiction, Art, CRITICISM
Language: English
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Author: Agnes Ethel Conway
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| Introduction | 00:14:59 |
| The Thirteenth Century in Europe | 00:18:55 |
| Richard II | 00:21:06 |
| The Van Eycks | 00:21:09 |
| The Renaissance | 00:19:20 |
| Raphael | 00:17:57 |
| The Renaissance in Venice | 00:14:04 |
| The Renaissance in the North | 00:15:37 |
| Rembrandt | 00:21:37 |
| Peter de Hoogh and Cuyp | 00:12:58 |
| Van Dyck | 00:13:34 |
| Velasquez | 00:16:12 |
| Reynolds and the Eighteenth Century | 00:15:36 |
| Turner | 00:15:25 |
| The Nineteenth Century | 00:13:39 |
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