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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]

Language: English

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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 A