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tian artists—Beginning of modern animal painting in seventeenth century—Child’s favorites, domestic pets, then wild animals—Pictures of children with pets—Many-sided animal life shown by collation of pictures by different artists: dog, lion, deer, horse, sheep, fox—Cattle painting in Dutch school—French schools—Landseer and Bonheur—Henrietta Ronner’s cats—Photographs of animals—Reference books—Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| IX. PICTURES OF CHILDREN | ||
Popularity and value of pictures of children—Late historical development of subject —The Madonna subject—Contrasting motives in two great Raphaels—Charity—Holy Family—Subjects from infancy of Jesus—Child angels—Value of child portraiture—Rarity in Renaissance and popularity in seventeenth century—Essential qualities of good child portraiture—Velasquez—Greuze—Van Dyck—English eighteenth-century school—Reynolds and his group—Modern examples—Lists—Reference books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| X. STORY PICTURES | ||
Importance of choosing good picture material for storytelling—Distinction between building story on a picture and drawing story out of a picture—Story pictures which never lose interest and those which go out of fashion—Murillo’s Beggar Boys—Jan Steen’s picture of child life—Peter de Hooch’s domestic little girls—Variety of story interests appealing to child in pictures—Dutch seventeenth-century school—Chardin—Millet—Breton—Pictures of haymaking—Horatio Walker—Pictures of sea life—Bradford—Winslow Homer—The Fighting Téméraire and the Constitution—Story pictures illustrating lives of saints, heroes, and martyrs—St. Margaret—St. Francis—St. Anthony—St. Christopher—Maiden saints—Allegory in mural decoration—Life of Jesus—Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| APPENDIX. | ||
Lists of Books for a Working Library in Art Study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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