Chapter I: Front Matter

[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

Landscape with Cattle . . . . . . _Cuyp_ . . . . . . . . 141

William II. of Orange . . . . . . _Van Dyck_ . . . . . . 146

Don Balthazar Carlos . . . . . . . _Velasquez_ . . . . . . 161

The Duke of Gloucester . . . . . . _Sir J. Reynolds_ . . . 170

The Fighting Temeraire . . . . . . _Turner_ . . . . . . . 177

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