Pictures Every Child Should Know. Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

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СКАЧАТЬ of the Law--Paul Gustave Doré

       The Nativity--Albrecht Dürer

       The Spanish Marriage--Mariana Fortuny

       Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan--Thomas Gainsborough

       The Sword Dance--Jean Léon Gérôme

       Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizi--Ghirlandajo (Domenico Bigordi)

       The Nurse and the Child--Franz Hals

       The Meeting of St. John and St. Anna at Jerusalem--Giotto (Di Bordone)

       The Avenue--Meyndert Hobbema

       The Marriage Contract--Wm. Hogarth

       The Light of the World--William Holman Hunt

       Robert Cheseman with his Falcon--Hans Holbein, the Younger

       The Berkshire Hills--George Inness

       The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner--Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

       The Artist's Portrait--Tommaso Masaccio

       Acis and Galatea--Claude Lorrain

       Retreat from Moscow--Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

       The Angelus--Jean François Millet

       The Immaculate Conception--Murillo (Bartolomé Estéban)

       Haystack in Sunshine--Claude Monet

       The Sistine Madonna--Raphael (Sanzio)

       The Night Watch--Rembrandt (Van Rijn)

       The Duchess of Devonshire and Her Daughter--Sir Joshua Reynolds

       The Infant Jesus and St. John--Peter Paul Rubens

       Carmencita--John Singer Sargent

       The Miracle of St. Mark--Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

       The Artist's Daughter, Lavinia--Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)

       The Fighting Téméraire--Joseph Mallord William Turner

       The Children of Charles the First--Sir Anthony Van Dyck

       Equestrian Portrait of Don Balthasar Carlos--Velasquez (Diego Rodriguez de Silva)

       The Marriage at Cana--Paul Veronese

       The Death of Wolfe--Sir Benjamin West

       The Artist's Two Sons--Peter Paul Rubens

       The Last Supper--Leonardo da Vinci

       Fête Champêtre--Jean Antoine Watteau

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ANDREA DEL SARTO

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      (Pronounced Ahn'dray-ah del Sar'to)

       Florentine School 1486–1531 Pupil of Piero di Cosimo

      Italian painters received their names in peculiar ways. This man's father was a tailor; and the artist was named after his father's profession. He was in fact "the Tailor's Andrea," and his father's name was Angelo.

      One story of this brilliant painter which reads from first to last like a romance has been told by the poet, Browning, who dresses up fact so as to smother it a little, but there is truth at the bottom.

      Andrea married a wife whom he loved tenderly. She had a beautiful face that seemed full of spirituality and feeling, and Andrea painted it over and over again. The artist loved his work and dreamed always of the great things that he should do; but he was so much in love with his wife СКАЧАТЬ