The Book of Art for Young People

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Title: The Book of Art for Young People
Author: Agnes Conway Sir Martin Conway
Release Date: December 26, 2005 [EBook #17395]
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[Frontispiece: RED RIDING HOOD From the picture by G. F. Watts,
in the Birmingham Art Gallery Page 197]

THE BOOK OF ART FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
BY AGNES ETHEL CONWAY AND SIR MARTIN CONWAY
WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1
First published September 1909 as "The Children's Book of Art"
Reprinted in 1914, 1927, and 1935
Made in Great Britain. Printed by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED,
Edinburgh.

TO MY LITTLE FRIENDS AGNES AND ROSANNE

NOTE
My thanks are due and are cordially rendered to the Earl of Yarborough,
Sir Frederick Cook, and the authorities of Trinity College, Cambridge,
for permission to reproduce their pictures; to Lady Alfred Douglas and
Mr. Henry Newbolt for leave to quote from their poems; to Mr. Everard
Green, Somerset Herald, for all that is new in the interpretation of the
Wilton diptych; to Miss K. K. Radford for the translation in Chapter
VIII., and to all the friends who have helped me with criticism and
suggestions.
A. E. C.

CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I INTRODUCTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE . . . . 14
III RICHARD II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
IV THE VAN EYCKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
V THE RENAISSANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
VI RAPHAEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
VII THE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE . . . . . . . . 93
VIII THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH . . . . . . 104
IX REMBRANDT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
X PETER DE HOOGH AND CUYP . . . . . . . . . 133
XI VAN DYCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
XII VELASQUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
XIII REYNOLDS AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . . . 165
XIV TURNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
XV THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . . . . . . . . . 188
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

IN THE COLOURS OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS
Red Ridinghood . . . . . . . . . . _G. F. Watts_ Frontispiece Richard II.
before the Virgin PAGE and Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Three Maries . . . . . . . . . _H. Van Eyck_ . . . . . 48
St. Jerome in his study . . . . . Antonello da Messina 65
The Nativity . . . . . . . . . . . Sandro Botticelli . . 76
The Knight's Dream . . . . . . . . Raphael . . . . . . . 85
The Golden Age . . . . . . . . . . Giorgione . . . . . . 96
St. George destroying the Dragon . Tintoret . . . . . . 102
Edward, Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward VI. . . . . Holbein . . . . . . .
111
A Man in Armour . . . . . . . . . Rembrandt . . . . . . 126
An Interior . . . . . . . . . . . _P. de Hoogh_ . . . . . 134