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Title: Great Artists, Vol 1.
Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer

Author: Jennie Ellis Keysor

Release Date: September 10, 2007 [EBook #22564]

Language: English

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GREAT ARTISTS

_"Art manifests whatever is most exalted, and
it manifests it to all!"_--TAINE

GREAT ARTISTS
RAPHAEL
MURILLO
RUBENS
DURER

BY

JENNIE ELLIS KEYSOR
_Author of "Sketches of American Authors"_

EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO

COPYRIGHTED
BY EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY,
1899.

[Illustration]

A WORD TO THE TEACHER.

The following brief sketches are presented in fear and in hope--in
fear lest they prove in no wise adequate for so glorious a subject; in
the hope that they may encourage not only the pupil, but the teacher,
to study the lives and the works of the great artists and to make
every possible effort to have copies of masterpieces ever before them
to study and to love.

The field of art study is a wonderful one from which to draw for
language work. A double purpose is thus served. Interesting subjects
are secured and pupils are given a start in acquiring a knowledge of
the beautiful that fortifies them for the sorrows and cares of life;
and, what is even better, prevents their own life from being
commonplace.

Would the teacher wish to study further, a list of valuable reference
books is appended to each sketch, any one of which will greatly assist
in acquiring a more extended knowledge of the subject.

In the study of an artist, take care to have a liberal supply of
reproductions of his pictures at hand. These may be photographs,
half-tones, like the illustrations in this book, or engravings. Good
work cannot be done without such pictures.

Above all, work to cultivate a love for good pictures, not to fill
young minds with unins