Children (Looking at Paintings)

by PEGGYROALF (Author), JosephGuglietti (Illustrator)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $9.54

  One of a series of books designed to present many different painters' views of a single subject. In this book the reader is taken on a personal gallery tour of 19 paintings of children. From the work of an unknown Egyptian artist to Peter Paul Rubens, John Singer Sargent, William H. Johnson and others, each artist's vision and interpretation of children is unique. Some artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger in Edward IV as a Child and Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez in his painting title Portrait of the Infanta Margarita immortalize the offspring of powerful kings and queens. Others, such as Frank W. Benson in Calm Morning and Mary Cassatt in Children Playing on the Beach capture the pleasures of children at play.