file which includes the original illustrations4 ,see #bfgjc-;h4htm or #bfgjc-;h4zip3 7https3_/_/www4gutenberg4org_/dirs_/#b_/ f_/g_/j_/bfgjc_/bfgjc-;h_/#bfgjc-;h4htm7 or 7https3_/_/www4gutenberg4org_/dirs_/#b_/ f_/g_/j_/bfgjc_/bfgjc-;h4zip7 ,,the ,,children',s ,,book ,,of ,,celebrated ,,pictures by ,,lorinda ,,munson ,,bryant ,author of ,famous ,pictures of ,real ,boys and ,girls1 ,famous ,pictures of ,real ,animals1 etc4 ,illustration ,published by ,the ,century ,co4 ,new ,york ,copyright1 #aibb1 by ,the ,century ,co4 ,,to ,,my ,,daughter ,,bertha ,,cookingham ,,bryant ,,list ,,of ,,illustrations ,,figure ,,page #a4 ,the ,holy ,family4 ,pintoricchio4 ,academy1 ,siena #c #b4 ,the ,valley ,farm4 ,constable4 ,national ,gallery1 ,london #e #c4 ,madonna and ,st4 ,jerome4 ,correggio4 ,parma ,gallery1 ,italy #g #d4 ,the ,wood-,gatherers4 ,corot4 ,corcoran ,art ,gallery1 ,washington1 ,d4,c4 #i #e4 ,the ,aurora4 ,guido ,reni4 ,rospigliosi ,palace1 ,rome #aa #f4 ,singing ,boys4 ,franz ,hals4 ,cassel ,gallery1 ,germany #ac #g4 ,st4 ,barbara4 ,palma ,vecchio4 ,santa ,maria ,formosa1 ,venice #ae #h4 ,charles ,i and ,his ,horse4 ,van ,dyck4 ,louvre1 ,paris #ag #i4 ,the ,gale4 ,homer4 ,worcester ,art ,museum1 ,massachusetts #ai #aj4 ,madonna del ,gran' ,duca4 ,raphael4 ,pitti ,palace1 ,florence #ba #aa4 ,joan of ,arc4 ,bastien-,lepage4 ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city #bc #ab4 ,the ,fates4 ,michael ,angelo4 ,pitti ,palace1 ,florence #be #ac4 ,madonna of the ,chair4 ,raphael4 ,pitti ,palace1 ,florence #bg #ad4 ,wolf and ,fox ,hunt4 ,rubens4 ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city #bi #ae4 ,the ,night ,watch4 ,rembrandt4 ,ryks ,museum1 ,amsterdam #ca #af4 ,the ,assumption4 ,titian4 ,academy1 ,venice #cc #ag4 ,the ,melon-,eaters4 ,murillo4 ,pinakothek1 ,munich #ce #ah4 ,the ,muses4 ,romano4 ,pitti ,palace1 ,florence #cg #ai4 ,come ,abide with ,us4 ,fra ,angelico4 ,san ,marco1 ,florence #ci #bj4 ,the ,supper at ,emmaus4 ,rembrandt4 ,louvre1 ,paris #da #ba4 ,children of ,charles ,i4 ,van ,dyck4 ,dresden ,gallery #dc #bb4 ,the ,buttery4 ,de ,hooch4 ,ryks ,museum1 ,amsterdam #de #bc4 ,coronation of the ,virgin4 ,botticelli4 ,uffizi ,palace1 ,florence #dg #bd4 ,the ,wolf-,charmer4 ,la ,farge4 ,city ,art ,museum1 ,st4 ,louis #di #be4 ,the ,old ,woman ,cutting ,her ,nails4 ,rembrandt4 ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city #ea #bf4 ,the ,spinner4 ,maes4 ,ryks ,museum1 ,amsterdam #ec #bg4 ,st4 ,george and the ,dragon4 ,carpaccio4 ,church of ,san ,giorgio degli ,schiavoni1 ,venice #ee #bh4 ,the ,grand ,canal4 ,turner4 ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city #eg #bi4 ,song of the ,lark4 ,breton4 ,art ,institute1 ,chicago #ei #cj4 ,the ,holy ,night4 ,correggio4 ,dresden ,gallery #fa #ca4 ,the ,gleaners4 ,millet4 ,louvre1 ,paris #fc #cb4 ,st4 ,cecilia4 ,raphael4 ,bologna1 ,italy #fe #cc4 ,helena ,fourment and ,her ,son and ,daughter4 ,rubens4 ,louvre1 ,paris #fg #cd4 ,the ,harp of the ,winds4 ,martin4 ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art #fi #ce4 ,the ,tribute ,money4 ,titian4 ,dresden ,gallery #ga #cf4 ,the ,maids of ,honor4 ,velasquez4 ,madrid ,gallery1 ,spain #gc #cg4 ,the ,nymphs4 ,corot4 ,louvre1 ,paris #ge #ch4 ,st4 ,francis ,preaching to the ,birds4 ,giotto4 ,upper ,church1 ,assisi1 ,italy #gg #ci4 ,the ,governess4 ,chardin4 ,liechtenstein ,gallery1 ,vienna #gi #dj4 ,the ,last ,supper4 ,leonardo da ,vinci4 ,santa ,maria delle ,grazie1 ,milan #ha #da4 ,sir ,galahad4 ,watts4 ,eton ,college1 ,england #hc #db4 ,the ,duchess of ,devonshire and ,her ,child4 ,reynolds4 ,royal ,gallery1 ,windsor #he #dc4 ,st4 ,agnes and ,her ,lamb4 ,andrea del ,sarto4 ,pisa ,cathedral1 ,italy #hg #dd4 ,whistler's ,mother4 ,whistler4 ,luxembourg1 ,paris #hi #de4 ,st4 ,christopher4 ,titian4 ,doges ,palace1 ,venice #ia #df4 ,the ,blue ,boy4 ,gainsborough4 ,private ,gallery1 ,henry ,huntington1 ,los ,angeles1 ,california #ic #dg4 ,the ,sleeping ,girl4 ,van der ,meer4 ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city #ie #dh4 ,st4 ,anthony and the ,christ-,child4 ,murillo4 ,museum of ,seville1 ,spain #ig #di4 ,king ,lear4 ,abbey4 ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city #ii #ej4 ,sunset in the ,woods4 ,inness4 ,corcoran ,art ,gallery1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c4 #aja ,dear ,children3 ,the stories ,i am telling about the pictures and their painters in this book are gathered from many countries4 ,some of them belong to very early times when history was told to grown up people by story-tellers at banquets and in the homes1 on the street corners and public halls4 ,some of the stories are legends and traditions that grew up with the beginnings of the ,christian era4 ,all of them are taken from authentic sources and many of them illustrate some natural law4 ,the artists who painted these pictures knew history and the early myths1 the fairy-tales1 the legends and the traditions1 the ,bible and the ,apocrypha4 ,we love these pictures because they are beautiful and true1 but really to understand them we must know what the artists had in mind when they painted them4 ,if you learn to know these pictures and love them1 ,i will make you another book soon about statues and their stories4 ,with love and best wishes1 from your friend1 ,,lorinda ,,munson ,,bryant ,,the ,,holy ,,family ,,bernardino ,,pintoricchio 7#aded-aeac7 ,in looking at pictures of the old masters you will often see one called the ,holy ,family4 ,i want you to know who belonged to the ,holy ,family4 ,the grown people are ,joseph and ,mary1 the father and mother of ,jesus2 they had no last names at that time4 ,the children are ,jesus and his cousin1 ,john the ,baptist1 six months older than ,jesus4 ,sometimes the little ,john's mother1 ,elizabeth1 is in the picture and sometimes his father1 ,zacharias1 is there also4 ,in this picture painted by ,pintoricchio1 ,jesus is about four years old and ,john four and a half4 ,the ,bible story gives very little about the growing up of these children4 ,of ,jesus it says1 ,and the child grew1 and waxed strong in spirit1 filled with wisdom2 and the grace of ,god was upon him4 ,and of ,john it says1 ,and the child grew1 and waxed strong in spirit1 and he was in the deserts till the day of showing unto ,israel4 ,one story from a very old book1 ,the ,infancy1 tells about ,jesus playing with the other boys4 ,it says3 ,and when ,jesus was seven years of age1 he was on a certain day with other boys1 his companions about the same age4 ,who when they were at play1 made clay into several shapes1 namely1 asses1 oxen1 birds1 and other figures1 each boasting of his work1 endeavoring to exceed the rest4 ,then the ,lord ,jesus said to the boys1 ,i will command these figures which ,i have made to walk4 ,and immediately they moved1 and when he commanded them to return they returned4 ,he also made figures of birds and sparrows1 which1 when he commanded to fly1 did fly1 and when he commanded to stand still1 did stand still2 and if he gave them meat and drink1 they did eat and drink4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #a4 ,,the ,,holy ,,family4 ,,pintoricchio4 ,,academy1 ,,siena ,,the ,,valley ,,farm ,,john ,,constable 7#aggf-ahcg7 ,an old man1 eighty-four years of age1 lived in this house on ,the ,valley ,farm1 in ,england4 ,he was born here and he used to say that he had never been away from this house but four days in all his life4 ,he asked ,constable to come and paint a picture of his home4 ,and what a beautiful picture it is6 ,the old house1 snuggled down so close to the little stream1 could paddle its feet--if it had any--in the cool water4 ,and see how tenderly the tall trees keep guard over it4 ,how we wish that we could be there too6 ,if only we could be in the punt--,i am sure it is a punt-boat even if one end of it is pointed--and be rowed up and down in the delightful shade4 ,those two in the boat have no doubt been for the cows and are driving them home to be milked4 ,john ,constable liked to choose his subjects for his pictures from the familiar scenes near his home4 ,he used to say to his friends3 ,i have always succeeded best with my native scenes4 ,they have always charmed me1 and ,i hope they always will4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #b4 ,,the ,,valley ,,farm4 ,,constable4 ,,national ,,gallery1 ,,london ,,the ,,madonna ,,and ,,child ,,with ,,st4 ,,jerome ,,antonio ,,allegri ,,da ,,correggio 7#adid8-aecd7 ,correggio loved to paint darling babies1 lovely angels1 beautiful women and splendid men4 ,in this picture of the ,madonna and ,st4 ,jerome1 ,i want you specially to see ,st4 ,jerome and his lion4 ,st4 ,jerome1 a very noted man who lived four centuries after ,christ1 was the first person to translate the ,new ,testament into ,latin4 ,it was called ,the ,vulgate1 because of its common use in the ,latin ,church4 ,when ,st4 ,jerome was thirty years old he went away from the city of ,rome and became a hermit and lived in desert places in the ,east4 ,one day1 so the story goes1 as he sat at the gate of the monastery a lion came up limping as though he had been hurt4 ,the other hermits ran away but ,st4 ,jerome went to meet the lion4 ,the lion lifted up his paw and ,st4 ,jerome found a thorn in his foot4 ,he took out the thorn and bound up the poor paw1 so the lion stayed with ,st4 ,jerome and kept guard over an ass that brought the wood from the forest4 ,one day when the lion was asleep a caravan of merchants came along and stole the ass4 ,the poor ashamed lion hung his head before the saint1 and ,jerome thought he had killed and eaten the ass4 ,to punish him ,st4 ,jerome had him do the work of the ass and bring the wood from the forest4 ,one day some time afterward the lion saw the ass coming down the road leading a caravan of camels4 ,the ,arabs often have an ass lead the camels4 ,the lion knew that it was the stolen ass1 so he led the caravan into the convent grounds4 ,the merchant found that he was caught4 ,st4 ,jerome was very glad to find that his lion was honest and true4 ,whenever you see a picture of a saint with a lion you must remember that it is ,st4 ,jerome1 the great ,latin scholar4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #c4 ,,madonna ,,and ,,st4 ,,jerome4 ,,correggio4 ,,parma ,,gallery1 ,,italy ,,the ,,wood ,,gatherers ,,jean ,,baptiste ,,camille ,,corot 7#agif-ahge7 ,the picture of ,the ,wood ,gatherers is very precious to us4 ,it is the last picture ,corot signed after he was confined to the bed1 a few days before he died4 ,a curious story is told of ,corot's painting this picture4 ,he had an old study of another artist's of a landscape with ,st4 ,jerome at prayer3 you remember ,i told you the story of ,st4 ,jerome and his lion4 ,corot took the study and made a number of sketches of it4 ,somehow his landscape would not fit ,st4 ,jerome1 so he painted a man on horseback and a dog going off into the woods4 ,then in the place of ,st4 ,jerome praying he put a woman gathering bits of wood and another woman with a bundle of fagots under her arm4 ,now the picture must have another name and he called it ,the ,wood ,gatherers4 ,when you go to ,washington1 you must not fail to see this picture in the ,corcoran ,art ,gallery4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #d4 ,,the ,,wood-,,gatherers4 ,,corot4 ,courtesy of the ,corcoran ,art ,gallery1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c4 ,,aurora ,,guido ,,reni 7#aege-afdb7 ,hyperion had three wonderful children1 ,apollo1 the god of the sun1 ,selene1 the goddess of the moon1 and ,aurora1 the goddess of the dawn4 ,when ,aurora appears her sister1 ,selene 7the moon71 fades and night rolls back like a curtain4 ,now let us look at this masterpiece by ,guido ,reni carefully that we may know how wonderful is the coming of day4 ,aurora1 in a filmy white robe1 is dropping flowers in the path of ,apollo 7the sun7 as he drives his dun-colored horses above the sleeping ,earth4 ,the ,horae 7the hours71 a gliding1 dancing group of lovely beings1 accompany the brilliant god4 ,each hour is clothed in garments of a special tint of the great light of day1 red1 orange1 yellow1 green1 blue1 purple1 and violet4 ,the golden-hued ,apollo sits supreme in his chariot of the sun4 ,the fresco--fresco means painted on fresh plaster--is on the ceiling of the ,rospigliosi ,palace1 ,rome4 ,the painting is as brilliant in color to-day as it was when painted three hundred and fifty years ago4 ,aurora1 like most of the gods and goddesses1 fell in love with a mortal4 ,she asked ,zeus to make her husband immortal but she forgot to ask that he should never grow old4 ,and1 fickle woman that she was6 when he became gray and infirm1 she deserted him and1 to put a stop to his groans1 she turned him into a grasshopper4 ,her son1 ,memnon1 was made king of the ,ethiopians1 and in the war of ,troy he was overcome by ,achilles4 ,when ,aurora1 who was watching him from the sky1 saw him fall she sent his brothers1 the ,winds1 to take his body to the banks of a river in ,asia ,minor4 ,in the evening the mother and the ,hours and the ,pleiades came to weep over her dead son4 ,poor ,aurora6 even to-day her tears are seen in the dewdrops on the grass at early dawn4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #e4 ,,the ,,aurora4 ,,guido ,,reni4 ,,rospigliosi ,,palace1 ,,rome ,,the ,,singing ,,boys ,,frans ,,hals 7#aehd8-afff7 ,these jolly singers are ,dutch boys4 ,they are singing on the street or in some back yard just as singers do to-day1 though they lived nearly three hundred years ago4 ,hals was such a rapid painter that he could make a picture while you wait4 ,the story is told that one time young ,van ,dyck1 the ,flemish painter who painted ,baby ,stuart1 went to see ,hals in ,amsterdam when ,hals was an old man4 ,van ,dyck did not tell the old artist that he was ,van ,dyck but simply asked him to paint his portrait1 knowing what a rapid painter ,hals was4 ,in an hour the picture was done4 ,van ,dyck remarked1 as he looked at the portrait3 ,that seems easy2 ,i believe ,i could do it4 ,hals thought he would have some fun1 so he told the young stranger that he would sit for him just one hour4 ,van ,dyck set his easel where ,hals could not see him work and began to paint4 ,at the end of an hour he said3 ,your picture is finished1 sir4 ,hals1 ready to laugh at the daub1 looked at the portrait and the laugh went out of his face4 ,he then looked at ,van ,dyck1 and cried out3 ,you must be either ,van ,dyck or a wizard6 ,you see1 ,hals had heard of ,van ,dyck and his rapid work1 and knew that only a master painter could make the splendid portrait in an hour4 ,illustration3 ,permission of ,franz ,hanfstaengl1 ,new ,york ,city ,,fig4 #f4 ,,singing ,,boys4 ,,frans ,,hals4 ,,cassel ,,gallery1 ,,germany ,,st4 ,,barbara ,,jacopo ,,palma ,,il ,,vecchio 7#adhj8-aebh7 ,st4 ,barbara1 born ,a4 ,d4 #cjc1 was a very beautiful girl4 ,her father1 an eastern nobleman1 loved her so much and was so afraid something might happen to her that he built a very wonderful tower for her home and shut her up in it4 ,and in that tower she studied the stars4 ,night after night she looked at the heavenly bodies until she knew more about the sun and the moon and the stars than any of the learned men4 ,but as she studied the shining bodies she decided that worshiping idols1 made of wood and stone1 as her father did1 was wrong4 ,finally she learned about the ,savior1 and to show her faith in ,christianity she had some workmen who were making repairs on her tower put in three windows4 ,when her father came as usual to visit her1 he asked in surprise what the three windows were for4 ,she replied3 ,know1 my father1 that through three windows doth the soul receive light1 the ,father1 the ,son1 and the ,holy ,ghost3 and the three are one4 ,her father was very angry when he found she had learned about the ,savior and had become a ,christian4 ,he condemned her to death and at last took her out on a hill and killed her1 but he1 too1 was struck dead4 ,st4 ,barbara is always represented with a tower that has three windows in it4 ,palma ,vecchio painted this picture for some ,venetian soldiers nearly four hundred years ago4 ,when the ,germans bombarded ,venice 7#aiah7 the ,venetians took the picture from the church to a place of safety4 ,scarcely a week had passed before a bomb broke through the roof of the church tearing everything before it at the exact spot where the picture had hung4 ,but ,st4 ,barbara1 one of the great pictures of the world1 was safe4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #g4 ,,st4 ,,barbara4 ,,palma ,,vecchio4 ,,santa ,,maria ,,formosa1 ,,venice ,,charles ,i ,,and ,,his ,,horse ,,sir ,,anthony ,,van ,,dyck 7#aeii-afda7 ,the horse in this picture of ,charles ,i is probably the one ,rubens gave to ,van ,dyck4 ,it is said that ,rubens gave it as a present after ,van ,dyck had painted a portrait of ,helena ,fourment1 the master's second wife1 and presented it to him4 ,van ,dyck was twenty-two years younger than ,rubens4 ,you will remember that he was the master painter's favorite pupil4 ,having ,rubens as a teacher did not make the pupil a great painter4 ,van ,dyck was never more than a prince2 just an heir to the throne4 ,rubens was a king and sat on the throne4 ,the story is told that once ,rubens was away from his private studio when the students bribed the servant to open the door for them4 ,they stole into the master's studio to see ,the ,descent from the ,cross1 which he was then painting4 ,by some mishap the culprits rubbed against the wet paint and spoiled that part of the picture4 ,of course they were terrified at the damage done4 ,they finally decided that ,van ,dyck was the one to repair the spot4 ,the work was so well done that they hoped ,rubens would not see the repairs4 ,but the first thing that caught the eye of the master was that particular spot4 ,he at once sent for the students and asked who had worked on his picture4 ,van ,dyck stepped out from the others and frankly confessed that he was the culprit4 ,rubens was so pleased with his frankness and also at the skill of the work that he forgave them all4 ,king ,charles ,i invited ,van ,dyck to come to ,england1 and then he knighted him and gave him a pension for life4 ,the hundreds of pictures of the royal family and court people of ,england left by ,van ,dyck show us how rapidly he could paint1 for the artist died when he was only forty-two years old4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #h4 ,,charles ,i ,,and ,,his ,,horse4 ,,van ,,dyck4 ,,louvre1 ,,paris ,,the ,,gale ,,winslow ,,homer 7#ahcf-aiaj7 ,winslow ,homer lived in ,maine1 where he heard the roar of mighty waters beating the rocks all day and all night4 ,some days the ocean grew so angry because the winds whirled its waters about in such a cruel manner that it would fling itself upon the sands and rocks as though to tear everything to pieces4 ,the waves would raise up like furious horses champing their bits and foaming at the mouth4 ,somehow these angry waves could never go beyond a certain point1 and the mother carrying her baby along the coast knows just the point at which the waves must stop4 ,let us clap our hands and shout with joy that old ocean cannot hurt that mother and her baby4 ,fill your lungs full of that glorious breeze whipping their hair and clothes4 ,open your eyes wide like the baby and let the salt air polish them until they sparkle like diamonds as the baby's do4 ,winslow ,homer loved old ocean1 and so do we6 ,let us love his pictures of old ocean for he has taught us that that mighty power is under a greater ,power4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #i4 ,,the ,,gale4 ,,homer4 ,courtesy of ,worcester ,art ,museum1 ,massachusetts ,,madonna ,,del ,,gran' ,,duca ,,raphael ,,sanzio 7#adhc-aebj7 ,i want you to learn everything you can about ,raphael4 ,he was so kind and gentle and beautiful that everybody loved him4 ,people said that when he walked on the streets of ,rome scores of young men went with him until one would think him a prince4 ,the pope gave him a large order to decorate the ,vatican1 the pope's home4 ,every artist was willing to help him because he was always ready to do anything he could to help his brother artists4 ,raphael only lived to be thirty-seven4 ,when he died all ,italy mourned his death1 and his funeral was one of the largest of any artist of his time4 ,when ,raphael was only twenty-one he painted the ,madonna del ,gran' ,duca4 ,he had gone to ,florence for the first time4 ,we do not know where the picture was for a hundred years after it was painted2 then the painter ,carlo ,dolci owned it4 ,again another hundred years went by1 and we find it in possession of a poor widow4 ,she sold it to a picture-dealer for about twenty dollars4 ,it then went into the hands of the grand duke of ,tuscany1 ,ferdinand ,,iii1 for the big sum of eight hundred dollars4 ,no amount of money could buy the picture to-day4 ,ferdinand loved the picture so much that he always took it with him on all his travels and the grand duchess1 his wife1 felt that her baby boys were purer if she had the picture near her4 ,it got its name ,madonna of the ,grand ,duke from the title of the family4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #aj4 ,,madonna ,,del ,,gran ,,duca4 ,,raphael4 ,,pitti ,,palace1 ,,florence ,,joan ,,of ,,arc ,,jules ,,bastien-,,lepage 7#ahdh-ahhd7 ,no young girl in history has had such a wonderful story as ,joan of ,arc4 ,she began to hear voices and see visions when she was a little child4 ,she was born in the tiny village of ,domremy1 ,france4 ,just like the other little peasant girls around her she helped her mother about the house and at the spinning4 ,also she went into the fields with her brothers4 ,one day when she was in the garden the ,archangel ,st4 ,michael came to her in a glory of light4 ,he said she was a good little girl and that she must go to church and that some day she was to do a great act2 she was to crown the dauphin as king of ,france at ,rheims4 ,joan was afraid and cried at what the angel told her1 but ,st4 ,michael said1 ,god will help you4 ,these messages kept coming to her until1 when she was sixteen1 the voices insisted1 ,you must help the king1 and save ,france4 ,france was in a terrible state at this time1 #adbh4 ,the ,english held most of ,france4 ,the ,french king1 ,charles ,,vi1 became insane and died4 ,the son1 ,dauphin ,charles1 was weak and lazy and discouraged2 he had no money1 no army1 no energy1 and like most cowards1 ran from his duty and wasted his time in wickedness4 ,joan was still urged by voices to save ,france4 ,at last a peasant uncle went with her to a man in power to ask for troops4 ,the man was angry1 and said sharply3 ,the girl is crazy6 ,box her ears and take her back to her father4 ,but ,joan did not give up4 ,she insisted that some one must take her to ,dauphin ,charles1 that ,god willed it4 ,she said3 ,i will go if ,i have to wear my legs down to my knees4 ,she went1 and she saved ,france by crowning the dauphin as ,charles ,,vii at ,rheims4 ,but the ,french and the ,english people condemned ,joan of ,arc as a witch and burned her at the stake4 ,too late they cried3 ,we are lost6 ,we have burned a saint6 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #aa4 ,,joan ,,of ,,arc4 ,,bastien-,,lepage4 ,courtesy of the ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city ,,the ,,fates ,,michael ,,angelo ,,buonarroti 7#adgd-aefd7 ,when a new baby comes to a home1 legend says1 three beautiful young girls come to take care of the baby all through its life1 but no one ever sees these young girls4 ,each one has a strange work to do4 ,one1 called ,clotho1 carries a spindle on which is wound flax4 ,the second1 named ,lachesis1 twists a thread from the spindle1 called the thread of life4 ,and ,atropos1 the third1 has a pair of shears ready to cut the thread of life4 ,a funny story is told about ,michael ,angelo when he designed this picture of ,the ,fates4 ,an old woman annoyed the artist very much by coming every day to see him4 ,she insisted that he should appoint her son a special place in the fighting line in the seige of ,florence 7#aebi74 ,michael ,angelo took revenge on the old woman by using her as a model for all of the women in his ,fates4 ,and that is why ,michael ,angelo's fates are old women instead of young girls1 as legend says they are4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #ab4 ,,the ,,fates4 ,,michael ,,angelo4 ,,pitti ,,palace1 ,,florence ,,the ,,madonna ,,of ,,the ,,chair ,,raphael ,,sanzio 7#adhc-aebj7 ,we like to believe that ,raphael1 in one of his daily walks in the country1 really did see this mother and her two little boys sitting in a doorway4 ,of course he must paint them1 and having no paper with him he rolled up a barrel and made a sketch on the head of it4 ,the story says that this barrel was once a part of a great oak-tree that stood by the hut of an old man1 a hermit up in the mountains4 ,and the mother of the two boys1 when a little girl1 used to go to see the old man4 ,he loved these two--the little girl and the big oak-tree--and called them his daughters4 ,he used to say that some day they would both be famous4 ,that was more than four hundred years ago1 and to-day this picture of ,the ,madonna of the ,chair is one of the most famous ,madonna pictures4 ,it is found in almost every home in ,america and is a treasure that belongs to all of us though it hangs in a gallery at ,florence1 ,italy4 ,we know1 too1 that ,raphael did not let any of his helpers work on ,the ,madonna of the ,chair--in ,italian1 ,madonna della ,sedia4 ,he painted every brush stroke himself1 which makes it still more dear to us4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #ac4 ,,madonna ,,of ,,the ,,chair4 ,,raphael4 ,,pitti ,,palace1 ,,florence ,,the ,,wolf ,,and ,,fox ,,hunt ,,peter ,,paul ,,rubens 7#aegg-afdj7 ,the stables of ,peter ,paul ,rubens were known the country over4 ,no prince in the land had more magnificent horses1 and no cavalier could ride with more grace and ease than ,rubens4 ,when ,van ,dyck1 the artist who painted ,baby ,stuart1 was ready to leave the studio of ,rubens to travel in ,italy1 the master gave him a beautiful horse from his own stables4 ,van ,dyck probably used this horse as a model in his picture of ,charles ,i and his ,horse4 ,now look at ,rubens on the splendid dappled white horse in ,the ,fox and ,wolf ,hunt4 ,his first wife1 ,isabel ,brant1 is on his right hand4 ,she carries her falcon balanced on her wrist1 his wings spread out in excitement4 ,we feel that ,rubens and his horse together are directing every movement in the hunt4 ,that horse has all the alertness of the trained dogs and is just as eager in overcoming brute force as men are4 ,in fact we are so fascinated with his beauty and intelligence that the cruel sport is almost forgotten in our interest in him and his master4 ,rubens painted a number of hunting scenes1 and always he manages the hunt with the skill of a master4 ,the confusion of the rough-and-tumble fight between the wild beasts and the horses1 dogs1 and men in ,rubens' pictures seems to untangle itself under his glorious color and skilful arrangement4 ,this is a picture you must see4 ,when you go to ,new ,york ,city never fail to visit the ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #ad4 ,,wolf ,,and ,,fox ,,hunt4 ,,rubens4 ,courtesy of the ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city ,,the ,,night ,,watch ,,rembrandt ,,van ,,rijn 7#afjg8-affi7 ,one time1 more than two hundred and fifty years ago1 two little children living in ,amsterdam were playing at the edge of the city just at evening4 ,soon they overheard some ,spanish soldiers near-by talking together4 ,they began to understand that the men were making some kind of plans and1 listening very sharply1 they found that the ,spaniards intended to attack the city of ,amsterdam that night4 ,the ,spaniards were fighting the ,netherlands at that time4 ,you can imagine how frightened the children were4 ,they knew that they must tell some one about it at once4 ,very quietly they crept away from where the men were1 then ran for their lives to the town hall4 ,the ,civic ,guard were having a banquet there4 ,rembrandt has painted the scene just as the little girl1 in the center of the group1 has finished her story4 ,the men are making ready to meet the attack4 ,some have on their armor1 some are polishing their guns1 some have their drums1 and all are full of excitement4 ,when the painting was to be put in the new ,ryks ,museum1 in ,amsterdam1 it was found that the wall was too narrow for the picture4 ,what do you think the authorities did8 ,the stupid men cut a piece off from each side of the picture to fit it in its new place4 ,was ever anything so silly8 ,even those pieces cut off would bring more money to-day than the museum itself cost4 ,the men who had money at the time ,rembrandt painted the picture were angry because the artist would not make portraits as they wanted them4 ,they ignored ,rembrandt1 and he became very poor and died unknown4 ,to-day those rich men are forgotten and ,rembrandt is known the world over4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #ae4 ,,the ,,night ,,watch4 ,,rembrandt4 ,,ryks ,,museum1 ,,amsterdam ,,the ,,assumption ,,titian1 ,,or ,,tiziano ,,vecelli 7#adgg-aegf7 ,titian lived to be ninety-nine-years old and still painted pictures4 ,he was working on a painting when an awful plague broke out in ,venice1 and he took it and died4 ,titian painted such wonderful pictures that kings came to see them and rich noblemen paid big sums of money to own them4 ,sometimes ,king ,charles ,v would ride with ,titian and would have his courtiers pay tribute to ,titian and wait on him4 ,this made those haughty men very jealous and very angry1 but ,charles ,v would say1 ,i have many nobles1 but ,i have only one ,titian4 ,titian's picture of the ,virgin going to ,heaven the whole world calls one of the greatest pictures ever painted4 ,some day ,i hope you will go to ,venice1 that ,queen ,city of the ,sea1 and fasten your gondola at the ,museum door while you go in to see this picture4 ,you will be so dazzled with its bright color that you will hardly see the little cherubs circling around the blessed mother4 ,but ,i want you to look at them2 they are darlings3 then look at the men all reaching up and the ,father in the sky looking down4 ,the story of the picture is about ,mary1 the mother of ,jesus1 going to heaven4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #af4 ,,the ,,assumption4 ,,titian4 ,,academy1 ,,venice ,,the ,,melon ,,eaters ,,bartolome ,,esteban ,,murillo 7#afah-afhb7 ,when the ,spanish artist ,murillo was a young painter he was very poor and hardly knew where to get enough to eat4 ,he would go to the market-place and set up his easel and rapidly paint the scenes around him4 ,the people who came to the market to buy and sell saw these pictures and bought them for a mere pittance4 ,often beggar boys1 who were everywhere in the market snatching fruits and other eatables from the stalls1 would pose for him as they hid in some corner to eat their stolen dainties4 ,these beggar-boy pictures that ,murillo sold for a song to keep his soul and body together began to attract attention until finally they were looked upon as the greatest pictures ,murillo ever painted4 ,people outside of ,spain1 ,murillo's native country1 bought them until to-day scarcely a beggar-boy picture of his is found in ,spain4 ,this picture of ,the ,melon ,eaters is known far and wide as a great masterpiece1 and yet the boys were little rag-a-muffins1 the pests of the market people4 ,murillo knew the joys and sorrows of those boys because he too at that time was very poor and hungry and no one was giving him a helping hand4 ,do you suppose that when he was famous as a painter he ever saw those boys8 ,i think so1 for he was greatly beloved by his townspeople of ,seville4 ,they probably came to his studio many times4 ,murillo painted many religious pictures for the churches of ,seville4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #ag4 ,,the ,,melon ,,eaters4 ,,murillo4 ,,pinakothek1 ,,munich ,,the ,,muses ,,giulio ,,romano 7#adib-aedf7 ,i am sure you have heard of the ,muses4 ,romano1 a pupil of ,raphael's1 has left us this beautiful picture of them dancing with ,apollo1 their cousin4 ,the ,muses were the daughters of ,zeus 7,jove or ,jupiter71 and ,memory4 ,these lovely girls also come to every home to help care for the new baby4 ,the ,greek names of the ,muses are rather hard to pronounce1 but you will want to call them by name4 ,then1 too1 each girl's name in ,greek letters is just below where she dances4 ,now begin at the left of the circle4 ,the first one1 ,calliope1 stands for narrative poetry2 ,no4 #b1 ,clio1 is history2 ,no4 #c1 ,erato1 is love-poetry2 ,no4 #d1 ,melpomene1 is tragedy2 ,no4 #e1 ,terpsichore1 is dance and song4 ,now comes ,apollo with his quiver full of arrows4 ,he is the god of the hunt and twin brother to ,diana1 the goddess of hunt2 also he is god of music and poetry4 ,no4 #f is ,polyhymnia1 muse of hymn-music2 ,no4 #g1 ,euterpe1 is song poetry2 ,no4 #h1 ,thalia1 is comedy1 and ,no4 #i1 ,urania1 muse of astronomy4 ,athene gave the ,muses the winged horse1 ,pegasus4 ,but alack and alas6 one of the poets became very poor and sold ,pegasus to a farmer4 ,he was fastened to the plow1 but he could not plow through the hard earth4 ,his spirit was broken and his body was weak4 ,the angry farmer tried to make him work1 but how could he when he had no courage8 ,but just then a beautiful youth came and asked the farmer to let him try the horse4 ,of course the man was glad to have any one help get the plowing done4 ,the young man petted the horse and slyly unfastened the harness as he patted him4 ,he mounted upon his back and ,pegasus rose in the air1 and away they both went1 ,pegasus and ,mercury4 ,the farmer looked on with amazement4 ,how could a good-for-nothing horse that could not plow do such a wonderful thing as fly8 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #ah4 ,,the ,,muses4 ,,romano4 ,,pitti ,,palace1 ,,florence ,,come1 ,,abide ,,with ,,us ,,fra ,,giovanni ,,angelico 7#achg-adee7 ,nearly two thousand years ago two men were walking together along a dusty road in ,palestine4 ,they talked earnestly as they walked along of a great event that had happened4 ,a man called ,jesus1 the ,christ1 had been crucified and buried1 but after three days he was not found in the tomb4 ,as the men talked1 a traveler joined them and asked3 ,what is it ye talk about and are sad8 ,and the men asked if he were a stranger in ,jerusalem and did not know the things that had come to pass4 ,the stranger said1 ,what things8 ,then the men told him of ,jesus of ,nazareth1 which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before ,god and all the people4 ,and they said that they had all hoped ,he was the mighty one who was to save the world but that ,he had been killed4 ,then the stranger1 who was ,jesus himself1 but the men did not know ,him1 began to tell them the story of all things about himself4 ,still they did not know ,him1 and as they came to the village of ,emmaus and the stranger made as though ,he would have gone further1 the men said1 ,come1 abide with us4 ,this picture1 showing the men inviting the stranger1 was painted by ,fra ,angelico for the ,dominican monastery in ,florence1 ,italy4 ,you will find it over the entrance of ,san ,marco1 where it welcomes every stranger who comes4 ,fra ,angelico was so kind and gentle and helpful that his companions called him ,angel ,brother2 in ,italian1 ,fra ,angelico4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #ai4 ,,come1 ,,abide ,,with ,,us4 ,,fra ,,angelico4 ,,san ,,marco1 ,,florence ,,the ,,supper ,,at ,,emmaus ,,rembrandt ,,van ,,rijn 7#afjg8-affi7 ,rembrandt has taken the story of the two men and the stranger on their way to ,emmaus after they have gone into the house4 ,you see the disciples still did not know that the stranger was ,jesus1 the ,christ4 ,but when ,he sat at meat with them1 ,he took bread and blessed it and brake and gave to them4 ,then they knew that it was the ,savior who was talking with them and sitting at the table with them4 ,rembrandt shows the wondering men as they begin to recognize who their guest is1 and he makes us feel the warmth and gladness that fill their hearts when they know that it is the risen ,lord4 ,the boy1 too1 lingers at the ,savior's side as though to hear the meaning of the scene4 ,but as they look1 ,jesus disappears out of their sight4 ,when ,he is gone they say to each other3 ,did not our heart burn within us1 while he talked with us by the way1 and while ,he opened to us the ,scriptures8 ,rembrandt painted this picture after many sorrows had come to him4 ,his beloved ,saskia1 the mother of the golden lad1 ,titus1 was dead2 friends had deserted him and his patrons were gone4 ,but the love of people still filled the heart of the great painter4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #bj4 ,,the ,,supper ,,at ,,emmaus4 ,,rembrandt4 ,,louvre1 ,,paris ,,three ,,children ,,of ,,charles ,i ,,of ,,england ,,sir ,,anthony ,,van ,,dyck 7#aeii-afda7 ,the little boy standing between his brother and sister in this picture is ,baby ,stuart1 the same child that is in the picture of ,baby ,stuart that you know so well4 ,when ,baby ,stuart grew up he was crowned ,james ,,ii1 king of ,england 7#afhe74 ,his brother was ,charles ,,ii1 king of ,england1 and his sister was the mother of ,william ,,iii1 king of ,england4 ,james ,,ii1 ,baby ,stuart1 had a daughter1 ,mary1 who became ,mary1 queen of ,england4 ,when these cousins1 ,william and ,mary1 grew up they were married and crowned king and queen of ,england in #afhi4 ,a funny story is told of the crowning ceremony4 ,william was very short and ,mary was quite tall4 ,it would not do to have ,mary taller than her husband1 so a stool was brought for ,william to stand on4 ,now they are the same height as they are crowned ,king ,william ,,iii and ,queen ,mary ,,ii of ,england4 ,when ,william and ,mary ruled ,england the country was happy and prosperous because love reigned in the royal household4 ,i have seen the stool that ,william stood on when he was crowned ,william ,,iii of ,england4 ,it is in ,westminster ,abbey1 ,london4 ,that is another interesting bit of historic setting that you will see when you go to visit ,england4 ,sir ,anthony ,van ,dyck1 the ,flemish artist1 painted many pictures of the royal families of ,england1 especially the family of ,charles ,i4 ,he put little dogs into his pictures so often that the people began to call these little fellows ,king ,charles spaniels4 ,to-day1 two hundred years after1 they are still called ,king ,charles spaniels4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #ba4 ,,children ,,of ,,charles ,i4 ,,van ,,dyck4 ,,dresden ,,gallery ,,the ,,buttery ,,pieter ,,de ,,hooch 7#afcb8-afha7 ,pieter de ,hooch is a ,dutch artist you are going to love4 ,usually you can tell his pictures by the checked or plaid floors4 ,the floors in the homes in ,holland are mostly made of squares of black and white marble4 ,did you ever see a cuter little girl than this one in the picture8 ,she has come for her pitcher of milk4 ,her mother went to the buttery for it3 a buttery is a place for keeping casks and barrels and bottles4 ,we can see one end of the cask or barrel under the window in the buttery4 ,now look into the next room and see the chair on a little platform4 ,that platform is quite common in the ,dutch home and is probably the place where mother or grandmother sits to read or sew by the window4 ,what a beautiful day it must be out of doors to make the rooms so cheerful and bright6 ,hooch loved the sunshine and used it to brighten every home he painted4 ,the sunshine on the checked floors makes his pictures sing with joy and happiness4 ,we can find very little about the life of the ,dutch little masters1 yet the pictures they have left us are among our greatest treasures3 just little home scenes that you and ,i know about4 ,it is said that de ,hooch often put in his people after he had finished painting his picture4 ,in one picture he has added a girl near a fireplace to make the picture more balanced4 ,we know that she was added after the picture was made1 for we can see the plaid floor through her dress where the paint was too thin to cover the original floor4 ,such little things tell us something of the method of work of the ,dutch painters4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #bb4 ,,the ,,buttery4 ,,de ,,hooch4 ,,ryks ,,museum1 ,,amsterdam ,,the ,,coronation ,,of ,,the ,,virgin ,,sandro ,,botticelli 7#addf-aeaj7 ,the children who are holding the book and ink-bottle in this picture1 ,the ,coronation of the ,virgin1 lived four hundred years ago4 ,their names are ,giovanni and ,giulio de' ,medici4 ,botticelli1 the artist1 knew them well for he was born and brought up in ,florence and used to spend a great deal of time at the ,medici ,palace4 ,the boys were cousins4 ,giulio1 the younger1 was left an orphan when a wee child and his uncle1 ,lorenzo the ,magnificent1 adopted him and had him brought up with his own son ,giovanni4 ,the boys were nearly the same age and grew up to be great and good men4 ,both of them were popes of ,rome4 ,the older boy1 ,giovanni1 was ,pope ,leo ,x and ,giulio ,pope ,clement ,,vii4 ,now look at the picture again4 ,the ,madonna is reading to her little son1 ,jesus1 ,the ,magnificat1 that beautiful song from ,luke1 ,chap4 ,i1 v4 #df-ef1 sung so often in our churches4 ,let us repeat the song together3 ,my soul doth magnify the ,lord1 ,and my spirit hath rejoiced in ,god my ,savior4 ,for ,he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden3 ,for1 behold1 from henceforth1 all generations shall call me blessed4 ,for ,he that is mighty hath done to me great things2 and holy is ,his name4 ,and ,his mercy is on them that fear ,him from generation to generation ,he hath shewed strength with his arm2 ,he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts4 ,he hath put down the mighty from their seats1 ,and exalted them of low degree4 ,he hath filled the hungry with good things2 ,and the rich he hath sent empty away4 ,he hath holpen his servant ,israel1 in remembrance of his mercy2 ,as ,he spake to our fathers1 to ,abraham1 and to his seed for ever4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #bc4 ,,coronation ,,of ,,the ,,virgin4 ,,botticelli4 ,,uffizi ,,palace4 ,,florence ,,the ,,wolf ,,charmer ,,john ,,la ,,farge 7#ahce-aiaj7 ,you see these wolves were once the old women gossips of the town1 the story says2 and when these women were unkind in what they said about people the ,fates--,i have told you another story about the ,fates--the ,fates to punish them turned them into wolves4 ,the ,wolf ,charmer1 who really is the old gypsy who killed the black cat of the village witch1 goes out into the night4 ,the owl calls the wolves to attack the gypsy4 ,but the gypsy knew the old women before they were turned into wolves so he calls them by name3 ,kate1 ,anne1 and ,bee6 ,and soon they follow him down the narrow path between the rocks and listen to his music on the bagpipes4 ,a funny story6 you say4 ,you know there are people who have a strange power over wild animals4 ,john ,la ,farge said about this picture1 ,i made it to be one of a series of some hundred subjects1 more or less fantastic and imaginary4 ,he never finished the pictures nor carried out his plan of making these books for children4 ,i am giving you ,the ,wolf ,charmer because he painted the picture for you4 ,mr4 ,la ,farge named this picture as the one he liked best of his paintings4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,john ,la ,farge ,,fig4 #bd4 ,,the ,,wolf ,,charmer4 ,,la ,,farge4 ,courtesy of the ,city ,art ,museum1 ,st4 ,louis ,,the ,,old ,,woman ,,cutting ,,her ,,nails ,,rembrandt ,,van ,,rijn 7#afjg8-affi7 ,no artist in all history had a sadder life than ,rembrandt4 ,it was sad because the people of ,amsterdam were stupid and too blind to know that a great man was living among them4 ,rembrandt could paint wonderful portraits1 and the rich people wanted their portraits painted4 ,at first all went well4 ,the rich flocked to his studio and ,rembrandt made marvelous likenesses4 ,then the guilds of the great commercial houses wanted pictures for their halls4 ,they came to ,rembrandt for these pictures1 but thinking that their money had bought the great artist body and soul1 they began to tell him how he should make the pictures that each one might have equal prominence in it4 ,naturally ,rembrandt would not be bought off with money4 ,his art was bigger than gold4 ,the picture that was really the turning point in his life was ,the ,night ,watch4 ,i wish you would look at the picture again4 ,you see the men away back in the picture were jealous that they were not put in the front row4 ,all they cared for was to have a fine portrait of themselves and ,rembrandt was only interested in making a great picture4 ,rembrandt went on painting but no one bought his pictures4 ,many sorrows came to him4 ,it was when the world had forsaken him that he painted ,the ,old ,woman ,cutting her ,nails4 ,now you can understand why ,rembrandt could paint an old woman with human sympathy4 ,we could love that old woman because the unkindness of the world made her more tender and true to suffering humanity4 ,she is the old grandmother we would go to if we were in trouble4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #be4 ,,the ,,old ,,woman ,,cutting ,,her ,,nails4 ,,rembrandt4 ,courtesy of the ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city ,,the ,,spinner ,,nicolaes ,,maes 7#afcb-afic7 ,this old woman is spinning flax4 ,have you ever seen a flax wheel8 ,when you go to ,holland try to visit ,dordrecht1 and if possible1 go into a real ,dutch home4 ,there you may see some one1 the grandmother maybe1 spinning flax2 then you will know that this picture is an actual scene4 ,nicolaes ,maes1 who painted the picture1 was born in ,dordrecht or ,dort4 ,this city is said to be the oldest city in the ,netherlands2 it was founded in the tenth century4 ,an old woman spinning was a familiar scene to ,maes4 ,now look at this spinner closely4 ,she will not mind1 for she is too intent on picking up a thread1 possibly a broken or a knotted one4 ,maes saw a picture in the old woman's dull red dress and bright red sleeves4 ,he liked the brown wheel and the yellow floor and the beautiful bit of blue cloth thrown over the wheel-base4 ,then he saw how beautifully the white kerchief and apron and wall caught the light4 ,he saw the helpfulness of the rugged old hand1 worn and scarred as it was1 yet patient and firm in repairing a mistake4 ,maes's ,the ,spinner and ,rembrandt's ,the ,old ,woman ,cutting her ,nails make the tasks of every-day life very human4 ,we in ,america owe much to these old ,dutch women and to the artists who have made them live for us4 ,this picture of ,the ,spinner is only sixteen and one fourth inches high and thirteen inches wide1 yet that old woman at her spinning-wheel is as much a real person in the room where she hangs on the wall as she was when ,maes painted her1 nearly three hundred years ago4 ,i want you to love these little ,dutch pictures2 they are so honest and true and tell us about real people and real things1 and they make us feel that beauty is everywhere4 ,now look at your grandmother as she mends your stockings and see how beautiful she is with the light on her dear old face and hair4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #bf4 ,,the ,,spinner4 ,,maes4 ,,ryks ,,museum1 ,,amsterdam ,,st4 ,,george ,,and ,,the ,,dragon ,,vittore ,,carfaccio 7#addj8-aebb7 ,st4 ,george1 a noble youth of ,cappadocia1 was one of the oldest and most noted of the saints4 ,the story always told of him is his killing the dragon4 ,once upon a time ,st4 ,george was going through ,palestine on horseback when he came to the ,city of ,beirut4 ,there he found a beautiful young girl in royal dress weeping outside the walls of the city4 ,when he asked her why she was crying1 she told him that a terrible dragon lived in the marshes near the city4 ,and to keep him from destroying every one in the city1 each day two young girls must be fed to him4 ,these young girls were chosen by lot1 and this day she1 ,cleodolinda1 the king's daughter1 must be eaten by the dragon4 ,st4 ,george told her not to be afraid for he would destroy the dragon4 ,but she cried3 ,o noble youth1 tarry not here1 lest thou perish with me6 but fly1 ,i beseech thee6 ,st4 ,george answered3 ,god forbid that ,i should fly6 ,i will lift my hand against the loathly thing1 and will deliver thee through the power of ,jesus ,christ6 ,then ,st4 ,george1 rushed at the dragon and thrust his spear into his mouth and conquered him4 ,he then took the young girl's mantle and bound the beast1 and she led him into the city to her father4 ,that day twenty thousand people of the city were baptized4 ,as time went on the name of ,st4 ,george became very great4 ,from the time that ,richard ,i--the ,lion-,hearted--placed his army under the protection of ,st4 ,george the saint became the patron saint of ,england4 ,in #accj the order of the ,garter1 the highest order of knighthood in ,great ,britain1 was founded and on its emblem is a picture of ,st4 ,george and the dragon4 ,carpaccio1 a ,venetian artist1 painted this picture of ,st4 ,george and the ,dragon4 ,he painted many other stories of saints4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #bg4 ,,st4 ,,george ,,and ,,the ,,dragon4 ,,carpaccio4 ,,church ,,of ,,san ,,giorgio ,,degli ,,schiavoni1 ,,venice ,,the ,,grand ,,canal1 ,,venice ,,joseph ,,mallard ,,william ,,turner 7#agge-ahea7 ,venice is a very curious city4 ,it is really built on stilts on top of the water4 ,its streets are canals4 ,instead of having street-cars and horses and taxicabs everybody goes in long boats called gondolas4 ,the main street in the city is the ,grand ,canal1 and in this canal come all sorts of people with all sorts of water-crafts4 ,the children play in the side streets just as you do except that they swim in the water instead of running on the ground4 ,even the babies are in the water fastened to the door-steps by a rope around their little bodies4 ,how they do coo and gurgle as they paddle their little hands and feet like young frogs6 ,turner shows in this picture the ,grand ,canal filled with ships from other countries with gaily colored flags fluttering in the breeze4 ,do you see the tower at the left in the picture8 ,that is the ,campanile1 the bell-tower4 ,this wonderful tower fell down flat in #aijb4 ,i talked with a man who has a store just opposite the tower1 a few weeks after it fell4 ,he said to me3 ,i thought it would fall on my store and destroy everything4 ,it began to tip2 then all at once it fell flat just where it stood4 ,the ,venetians soon built it up again4 ,when ,napoleon1 the great ,french emperor1 took ,venice1 he rode up the inclined plane of this tower on his horse and stood on the very top overlooking the sea4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #bh4 ,,the ,,grand ,,canal4 ,,turner4 ,courtesy of the ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city ,,the ,,song ,,of ,,the ,,lark ,,jules ,,adolphe ,,breton 7#ahbg-aijf7 ,up with me6 up with me into the clouds6 ,for thy song1 ,lark1 is strong2 ,up with me1 up with me into the clouds6 ,singing1 singing1 ,with clouds and sky above thee ringing1 ,lift me1 guide me till ,i find ,that spot which seems so to thy mind6 ,,wordsworth ,can you not almost hear this girl singing8 ,the sun is just coming up4 ,the lark is rising in the sky1 singing6 ,the girl has come out to work in the fields2 a peasant girl4 ,barefooted1 barehanded1 she stands straight like a soldier of work with her head lifted to drink in the morning air as she sings4 ,one morning early ,i was driving through the country roads in the south of ,england when larks began to rise from the fields where the workmen were1 just like this lark from the ,french field1 and how they did sing6 ,i stopped and listened1 watching them go up higher and higher1 their song growing fainter and fainter1 and then they disappeared4 ,where did they go8 ,let us ask this ,french peasant girl4 ,do you think that she can tell us8 ,if she cannot1 who can8 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #bi4 ,,song ,,of ,,the ,,lark4 ,,breton4 ,courtesy of the ,art ,institute1 ,chicago ,,the ,,holy ,,night ,,antonio ,,allegra ,,da ,,correggio 7#adid8-aecd7 ,it is a wonderful story1 the story of the ,holy ,night4 ,the mother and father had traveled a long way2 and when they came to ,bethlehem every place was taken so they found a bed in a cave4 ,in the night a baby boy came to the mother1 and she wrapped ,him in swaddling clothes1 and laid ,him in a manger1 because there was no room for them in an inn4 ,and there was in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields1 keeping watch over their flocks by night4 ,and1 lo1 the angel of the ,lord came upon them1 and the glory of the ,lord shone around about them2 and they were sore afraid4 ,and the angel said unto them1 ,fear not2 for behold1 ,i bring you good tidings of great joy1 which shall be to all people4 ,for unto you is born this day in the city of ,david1 a ,savior1 which is ,christ1 the ,lord4 ,and this shall be a sign unto you2 ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes1 lying in a manger4 ,and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising ,god1 saying1 ,glory to ,god in the ,highest1 and on earth peace1 good will unto men4 ,and it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven1 the shepherds said one to another1 ,let us go even to ,bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass1 which the ,lord has made known to us4 ,and they came with great haste1 and found ,mary and ,joseph2 and the babe lying in a manger4 ,at first a bright cloud overshadowed the cave but on a sudden the cloud became a great light in the cave1 so that their eyes could not bear it4 ,but the light gradually decreased until the ,infant appeared1 and sucked the breast of his mother1 ,mary4 ,the picture shows us the shepherds in the cave worshiping the young child1 ,jesus1 the ,christ4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #cj4 ,,the ,,holy ,,night4 ,,correggio4 ,,dresden ,,gallery ,,the ,,gleaners ,,jean ,,francois ,,millet 7#ahad-ahge7 ,millet was a ,french peasant boy--very poor4 ,he says his grandmother would come into his room early in the morning and call3 ,awake1 my little ,francois2 if you only knew how long a time the birds have been singing the glory of the good ,god6 ,he would insist when he was helping in the fields that there was beautiful color over the plowed ground1 and when the other fellows laughed at him1 he would say3 ,wait1 some day ,i will paint a picture and show you the color4 ,after he was an artist he was going by a field one day when a peasant cutting grain called to him3 ,i would like to see you take a sickle4 ,i'll take your sickle1 ,millet answered quickly1 and reap faster than you and all your family4 ,of course the man laughed1 for how could an artist cut grain4 ,he soon stopped laughing1 for ,millet cut much faster and farther than he could4 ,millet would often go into the forest just back of his house to rest after painting all day4 ,then he would say3 ,i do not know what those beggars of trees say to each other1 but they say something which we do not understand1 because we do not understand their language4 ,millet's work is often called the poems of the earth4 ,once when ,i was in ,barbizon ,i found the gate open into ,millet's door-yard4 ,of course ,i walked in1 but the owner insisted that ,i walk out again4 ,i shall never forget the peep ,i had of the little garden and the doorway and the long rambling house4 ,that ,millet lived there with his large family and there painted the pictures we love makes the place a joy to us4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #ca4 ,,the ,,gleaners4 ,,millet4 ,,louvre1 ,,paris ,,st4 ,,cecilia ,,raphael ,,sanzio 7#adhc-aebj7 ,did you know that ,st4 ,cecilia invented the organ1 that wonderful musical instrument in our churches8 ,cecilia was born in ,rome sixteen hundred years ago4 ,she was a beautiful young girl who loved music and composed many hymns4 ,the organ she dedicated to ,god's service4 ,when ,cecilia was married1 her husband1 a rich nobleman1 was converted and baptized4 ,he knelt by the side of ,cecilia1 and an angel crowned them with crowns made from roses which bloomed in paradise4 ,the first thing ,valerian asked was that his brother1 who was a heathen1 might be converted too4 ,they sent for the brother1 and when he came and found the room filled with the sweet fragrance of roses1 though it was not the rose season1 then he too became a ,christian4 ,the people of ,rome were very unkind to ,cecilia and ,valerian and his brother because they preached the story of ,jesus1 the ,christ4 ,at last they killed them4 ,st4 ,cecilia is the guardian saint of music and is always shown in art with the organ1 as you see in this picture by ,raphael4 ,the man standing at the left of the picture with his hand up to his face is ,st4 ,paul4 ,this is the most famous picture of ,st4 ,paul4 ,raphael shows the group listening to the heavenly choir while the earthly instruments of music have fallen at ,cecilia's feet broken and out of tune4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #cb4 ,,st4 ,,cecilia4 ,,raphael4 ,,bologna1 ,,italy ,,helena ,,fourment ,,rubens ,,and ,,her ,,son ,,and ,,daughter ,,peter ,,paul ,,rubens 7#aegg-afdj7 ,this picture of ,helena ,fourment ,rubens and ,her ,son and ,daughter was really painted to honor the boy4 ,it has always been the custom in ,europe to pay special attention to the boys in the home and keep the girls very much in the background4 ,it is very easy to see how pert the little ,albert ,rubens is1 and how subdued and meek is his sister4 ,the boy has the ,lord of ,creation air that would not be good for him in ,america4 ,we love the picture1 for ,rubens1 the father1 shows us plainly the old idea that the boy rules the home4 ,naturally the father would know the traits of his own children but not always would he allow us to know them too4 ,rubens was so wonderful as an artist1 as a man to settle quarrels1 and as a beautiful gentleman that all ,europe did him honor4 ,he was sent to see the ruling powers in ,england1 in ,spain1 in ,italy1 and in ,france4 ,each ruler entertained him as a royal guest1 and ,rubens painted masterpieces for each in return4 ,his paintings were the wonder of the age4 ,it is said that his fellow-artists looked with jealous eyes at his flesh tints1 and that all painters since have been in despair trying to equal him4 ,he left hundreds of pictures and hundreds of sketches4 ,the sketches alone are bringing many hundreds of times their weight in gold4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #cc4 ,,helena ,,fourment ,,and ,,her ,,son ,,and ,,daughter4 ,,rubens4 ,,louvre1 ,,paris ,,the ,,harp ,,of ,,the ,,winds ,,homer ,,martin 7#ahcf-ahig7 ,about a dozen years ago ,europe began to wonder if ,america had any art worth considering4 ,she invited us to send samples of our paintings that her critics might judge of our work4 ,among the pictures selected was ,homer ,martin's ,the ,harp of the ,winds4 ,at once ,europe saw that an ,american artist had painted a masterpiece4 ,this scene is on the ,river ,seine1 a short distance from ,paris4 ,was anything ever more simple8 ,slender willow-trees almost leafless1 bare rocks with a few scrubby bushes1 a tiny village sheltered in a curve of the river--what is there to suggest a picture8 ,and yet something grips us4 ,we seem to be at the beginnings of creation4 ,nature is confiding in us4 ,we are hearing the winds play on the harp to the listening river4 ,see how lovingly the water mirrors those harp strings all sparkly with gold and green6 ,i wonder if these willows make a harp or a lyre with their tall stalks reaching to the sky8 ,do you remember how1 when ,mercury found a tortoise1 he took the shell and made holes on both sides and strung nine strings across it--one for each ,muse--and gave it to ,apollo8 ,i think this ,harp of the ,winds has nine strings in memory of ,mercury's lyre4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #cd4 ,,the ,,harp ,,of ,,the ,,winds4 ,,martin4 ,courtesy of the ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city ,,the ,,tribute ,,money ,,titian1 ,,or ,,tiziano ,,vecelli 7#adgg-aegf7 ,every child must know ,the ,tribute ,money1 painted by ,titian1 for no artist understood the scene better than he did4 ,remember that the bad men in ,palestine were determined to find something that ,jesus1 the ,christ1 had done against the ,roman ,government so they could trap him4 ,at last they sent one in authority to question him4 ,but ,jesus said1 ,bring me a penny1 that ,i may see it4 ,and they brought him a penny4 ,and ,jesus said1 ,whose is this image and superscription8 ,and the man was forced to say1 ,caesar's4 ,then ,jesus made that famous reply that people use so often to-day3 ,render to ,caesar the things that are ,caesar's1 and to ,god the things that are ,god's4 ,titian shows the moment when the tax-gatherer must say that the penny belonged to ,caesar1 the ,roman emperor4 ,it had ,caesar's portrait on it and ,caesar's demands written on it4 ,look carefully at the two faces and the two hands1 and tell me what you think of the two men as ,titian shows them to us4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #ce4 ,,the ,,tribute ,,money4 ,,titian4 ,,dresden ,,gallery ,,the ,,maids ,,of ,,honor ,,diego ,,rodriguez ,,de ,,silva ,y ,,velasquez 7#aeii-affj7 ,if it had not been for ,velasquez we should know very little about the little princes and princesses of ,spain in the time of ,philip ,,iv1 about the middle of the sixteenth century4 ,he made many portraits of these children1 especially of the little ,princess ,margarita4 ,one day when ,velasquez was painting a portrait of ,philip ,,iv1 the king's little daughter ,margarita came into the room attended by her maids of honor and a splendid dog4 ,the king was so delighted with the little group that he told ,velasquez to make a picture of them just as they stood there before him4 ,now look at the picture and you will see in the looking-glass at the back of the room the reflection of the king and the queen4 ,at the easel stands ,velasquez1 the artist1 with his palette and brushes4 ,the wee fair-haired princess is the center of the group4 ,the strange-looking little women1 her maids of honor1 are dwarfs4 ,and see what a magnificent fellow the dog is1 lying so contentedly on the floor right in front of us4 ,when the picture was finished1 and the people went to see it1 many of them asked1 ,where is the picture8 ,the little ,margarita and her maids are so alive and those people standing around seem so real that no one thought they could be painted on canvas4 ,velasquez made such wonderfully real likenesses that some one told this story of one3 ,one day the ,king came to ,velasquez's studio and seeing1 as he supposed1 one of his admirals whom he had sent to take a command a few days before1 he spoke angrily3 ,what6 still here8 ,did ,i not command you to depart8 ,why have you not obeyed8 ,of course the admiral did not answer1 and then the king found that he had been angry at a portrait4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #cf4 ,,the ,,maids ,,of ,,honor4 ,,velasquez4 ,,madrid ,,gallery1 ,,spain ,,the ,,nymphs ,,jean ,,baptiste ,,camille ,,corot 7#agif-ahge7 ,everybody loved ,pere ,corot--,papa ,corot1 as he was called4 ,his happy manner and lovely smile won for him the name of the happy one4 ,i want you to know what ,papa ,corot says1 in a letter to a friend1 about himself and his painting4 ,he writes3 ,look you1 it is charming1 the day of a landscapist4 ,he gets up at three in the morning1 before sunrise1 goes and sits under a tree1 and watches and waits4 ,not much can be seen at first4 ,nature is behind a veil4 ,everything smells sweet4 ,ping6 a ray of yellow light shoots up4 ,the veil is torn1 and meadow and valley and hill are peeping through the rent4 ,bing1 bing6 the sun's first ray--another ray--and the flowers awake and drink a drop of quivering dew4 ,the leaves feel cold and move to and fro4 ,under the leaves unseen birds are singing softly4 ,the flowers are saying their morning prayers4 ,bam6 the sun has risen4 ,bam6 a peasant crosses the field with a cart and oxen4 ,ding6 ding6 says the bell of the ram that leads the flock of sheep4 ,bam6 bam6 all bursts--all glitters--all is full of light1 blond and caressing as yet4 ,the flowers raise their heads4 ,it is adorable4 ,i paint6 ,i paint6 ,boom6 boom6 boom6 ,the sun aflame burns the earth4 ,everything becomes heavy4 ,let us go home4 ,we see too much now4 ,let us go home4 ,you see now why ,corot could paint such a lovely picture as ,the ,nymphs4 ,he saw these gauzy creatures in the early morning light and painted them before the sun scattered them to the four winds4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #cg4 ,,the ,,nymphs4 ,,corot4 ,,louvre1 ,,paris ,,st4 ,,francis ,,preaching ,,to ,,the ,,birds ,,giotto ,,di ,,bondone 7#abff8-accg7 ,one time more than six hundred years ago ,st4 ,francis preached the dearest sermon to ,my ,sisters the ,birds that you ever heard4 ,he said to them as they lifted their little heads to listen to his words3 ,ye are beholden unto ,god your ,creator1 and always and in every place it is your duty to praise him6 ,ye are bounden to him for the element of the air which he has deputed to you forever-more4 ,you sow not1 neither do you reap4 ,god feeds you and gives you the streams and fountains for your thirst4 ,he gives you the mountains and the valleys for your refuge1 tall trees wherein to make your nests1 and inasmuch as you neither spin nor reap ,god clothes you and your children1 hence ye should love your ,creator greatly1 and therefore beware1 my sisters1 of the sins of ingratitude1 and ever strive to praise ,god4 ,st4 ,francis then made the sign of the ,cross and sent the birds north1 south1 east1 and west to carry the story of the ,cross to all mankind4 ,when ,giotto1 who painted this picture of ,st4 ,francis ,preaching to the ,birds1 was a little boy1 he took care of his father's sheep in the fields4 ,one day a noted painter1 ,cimabue1 found ,giotto drawing a sheep on a flat rock with colored stones4 ,the picture of the sheep was so lifelike that the great man asked the boy1 ,giotto1 to go with him and become an artist4 ,he went1 and one day years afterward the pope sent to ,giotto for a sample of his work4 ,giotto sent him a big round ,o4 ,it pleased the pope to find a man so original1 and he gave ,giotto many orders for pictures4 ,to-day the saying is ,round as ,giotto's ,o4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #ch4 ,,st4 ,,francis ,,preaching ,,to ,,the ,,birds4 ,,giotto4 ,,upper ,,church1 ,,assisi1 ,,italy ,,the ,,governess ,,jean ,,baptiste ,,simeon ,,chardin 7#afii-aggi7 ,when ,chardin began to paint pictures he went into the ,french homes and painted pictures of brass pots and kettles1 of fruits and vegetables4 ,then he took common scenes of life and gave us a number of pictures showing just what was going on in the homes and back yards4 ,the ,french people were not used to having an artist see beauty in the every-day things they were doing2 artists had been painting the rich for the rich4 ,everybody began to love the pictures ,chardin painted4 ,this is a very simple story in ,the ,governess4 ,the child--is it a boy or a girl8--is now ready to go to school4 ,he--,i believe he is a boy--is hearing some advice1 and ,i do not think he is pleased1 for he has a little frown on his face4 ,his dress is peculiar4 ,the ,french children two hundred years ago did not dress as you do to-day4 ,he is the same kind of a child that you are1 ,i am sure1 and you and he would soon be great friends4 ,chardin's color was so wonderful that one of his artist friends cried out3 ,o ,chardin6 it is not white1 red1 or black that you grind to powder on your palette2 it is the air and the light that you take on the point of your brush and fix on canvas4 ,chardin's pictures are as beautiful and bright to-day as they were when he painted them4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #ci4 ,,the ,,governess4 ,,chardin4 ,,liechtenstein ,,gallery1 ,,vienna ,,the ,,last ,,supper ,,leonardo ,,da ,,vinci 7#adeb-aeai7 ,i want you to know the disciples of ,jesus just as ,leonardo da ,vinci painted them four hundred years ago4 ,leonardo spent months among the men of ,milan1 ,italy1 looking into their faces and talking with them4 ,when he began to paint ,the ,last ,supper he had gathered men together so like these twelve disciples that we feel we can know them as ,jesus knew them4 ,for three years those men of old walked with ,jesus and talked with him as they went up and down ,palestine2 and at last1 on that wonderful night1 they met with ,him in the upper chamber to eat with ,him the ,last ,supper4 ,those disciples did not know that it was the last meal they would eat with ,jesus before he was hung on the cross4 ,we shall begin in the center of the table and name the disciples as ,leonardo has them in the picture4 ,first is the ,savior4 ,at his left is ,james with his arms spread out in distress2 back of him is ,thomas with his finger uplifted2 then ,philip rising with his hand on his heart2 next ,matthew1 his arms pointing to the ,savior while he turns toward the two near the end2 next to him is ,thaddeus2 and then ,simon4 ,on the other side of ,jesus sits ,john1 the beloved disciple4 ,his hands are folded and his eyes are cast down4 ,next to ,john is ,judas1 the betrayer2 he holds the bag clutched in his right hand and near him is the overturned salt cellar4 ,leaning back of ,judas is ,peter with one hand on ,john's shoulder2 next to ,peter is ,andrew2 then ,james1 the less1 laying one hand on ,peter's arm4 ,at the end of the table is ,bartholomew1 who has risen resting his hands on the table4 ,these men are all asking1 ,is it ,i8 ,for ,jesus had said1 ,he it is to whom ,i give a sop4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #dj4 ,,the ,,last ,,supper4 ,,leonardo ,,da ,,vinci4 ,,santa ,,maria ,,delle ,,grazie1 ,,milan ,,sir ,,galahad ,,george ,,frederick ,,watts 7#ahah-aijd7 ,of all the stories of ,king ,arthur and his ,knights of the ,round ,table none is so strange as that of ,sir ,galahad4 ,its beginning is in the upper chamber at the ,last ,supper with ,jesus and his disciples4 ,legend says that the cup used by our ,savior at the ,last ,supper was the ,holy ,grail4 ,joseph of ,arimathea1 who bought the cup from ,pontius ,pilate1 used it to catch the blood that flowed from the pierced side of our ,lord4 ,the cup1 or ,holy ,grail1 was kept in the ,convent of the ,holy ,grail by the descendants of ,joseph of ,arimathea4 ,the cup had marvelous powers in the hands of a perfect knight4 ,centuries passed and no perfect knight came to claim the ,holy ,grail4 ,then ,king ,arthur founded the ,knights of the ,round ,table4 ,one seat at the round table was always vacant waiting for the sinless youth4 ,many tried to sit in the seat perilous1 as it was called1 but the seat let each one down to disappear forever4 ,at last an old man--,joseph of ,arimathea himself--brought a boy and seated him in the vacant chair4 ,the knights were frightened but the boy sat unharmed and above the seat appeared the words3 ,,this ,,is ,,the ,,seat ,,of ,,galahad ,king ,arthur knighted him and sent him forth to find the ,holy ,grail4 ,years went by and awful trials and temptations came to ,sir ,galahad4 ,he did not yield to the bad things that came1 but kept looking for the ,holy ,grail4 ,at last he held the cross before his face to keep off his tormentors when before his eyes he saw the cup1 and the power of the ,holy ,grail came to him4 ,this picture of ,sir ,galahad in ,eton ,college1 ,england1 hangs in the chapel opposite the entrance door where each boy passes in on his way to morning and evening prayers4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #da4 ,,sir ,,galahad4 ,,watts4 ,,eton ,,college1 ,,england ,,the ,,duchess ,,of ,,devonshire ,,and ,,her ,,child ,,sir ,,joshua ,,reynolds 7#agbc-agib7 ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds ought to be called the painter of little girls4 ,no artist ever painted a larger number of little girls4 ,and no artist ever knew better than he how to get the confidence of children1 boys or girls4 ,one time a little boy in ,london was to carry a flag in a procession4 ,what do you think he did8 ,he went to ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds1 the artist whom no one dared to interrupt1 and asked him if he would paint a flag for him4 ,this pleased the great man4 ,when the boy proudly displayed his flag1 every one asked3 ,where did you get such a wonderful flag8 ,you can guess how proud the boy was to say1 ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds painted it for me6 ,this picture of ,the ,duchess of ,devonshire and her ,child is one of the greatest pictures ,sir ,joshua ever painted4 ,the original painting is now in the magnificent country seat of the ,duke of ,devonshire at ,chatsworth1 ,england4 ,sir ,joshua had a way of making his pictures sparkle and glisten that was unknown to other artists4 ,one of our own artists1 ,gilbert ,stuart1 when in ,london1 was copying a very valuable portrait by ,sir ,joshua4 ,he thought he saw one of the eyes move4 ,he was horrified to find that it really was moving down on the cheek4 ,he grabbed the picture and ran into a cold room and then worked the eye back in place4 ,the secret was out6 ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds had used wax to make his pictures glitter and1 alas1 the glitter would not last4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #db4 ,,the ,,duchess ,,of ,,devonshire ,,and ,,her ,,child4 ,,reynolds4 ,,royal ,,gallery1 ,,windsor ,,st4 ,,agnes ,,and ,,her ,,lamb ,,andrea ,,del ,,sarto 7#adhf-aeca7 ,one of the most beautiful pictures of ,st4 ,agnes and her lamb was painted by ,andrea del ,sarto1--,andrea the faultless1 as he was called4 ,it is in the cathedral at ,pisa4 ,st4 ,agnes was a ,roman girl who lived three hundred years after the birth of ,jesus4 ,her father and mother were heathens1 but their little daughter became a ,christian when a mere child4 ,she did not tell her parents that she loved ,jesus1 but when she refused to worship idols they knew that she had become a disciple of the ,master ,christ4 ,this made them so angry that they handed her over to the ,roman rulers to be punished4 ,these wicked men tried in every way to persuade ,agnes to bow down to their gods made of wood and stone4 ,when she would not bow down to them they tried to force her to worship the idols4 ,they gave her over to the soldiers and ordered them to take her clothes away1 but immediately her hair grew and covered her1 and angels came and gave her a shining white garment4 ,she even refused to marry the son of the ,roman magistrate4 ,the son thought that he could compel her to consent to the marriage after she was persecuted1 but he was struck blind when he tried to see her4 ,when ,st4 ,agnes saw what great sorrow came to the home of the young nobleman because he was blind1 she prayed for him and his eyesight came again4 ,his father was so thankful that he pleaded for her life1 but the people said1 ,she is a sorceress3 she must die4 ,then they tried to burn her1 but the flames burned her tormentors and did her no harm4 ,at last she was killed with a sword4 ,she is always represented with a lamb4 ,michael ,angelo wrote to ,raphael about ,andrea del ,sarto3 ,there is a little fellow in ,florence who1 if he were employed as you are upon great works1 would make it hot for you4 ,illustration3 ,courtesy of ,pratt ,institute ,,fig4 #dc4 ,,st4 ,,agnes ,,and ,,her ,,lamb4 ,,andrea ,,del ,,sarto4 ,,pisa ,,cathedral1 ,,italy ,,whistler',s ,,mother ,,james ,,abbott ,,mcneill ,,whistler 7#ahcd-aijc7 ,the story about ,whistler and his mother is rather a sad one4 ,he went to ,europe when he was a young painter and told his mother as he started that he would come home to her when he had made a success4 ,but he never made a success in money4 ,he painted this picture of his mother and for twenty years tried to sell it4 ,he offered it to his own country--the ,united ,states--for five hundred dollars4 ,we were so stupid that we did not know that the picture was a masterpiece and that no amount of money could buy it later on4 ,but the people of ,paris began to feel that ,whistler1 the ,american artist1 was a great master1 and the city bought the picture1 ,whistler's ,mother4 ,of course we can never own the picture now1 although it is an ,american mother1 unless the ,french people should give it to us4 ,but we do not deserve it1 do we8 ,after a number of years ,whistler's mother went to ,europe to make a home for her wonderful son4 ,she died in ,chelsea1 and to-day the mother and son are side by side in the little churchyard of ,chiswick1 near ,london4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #dd4 ,,whistler',s ,,mother4 ,,whistler4 ,,luxembourg1 ,,paris ,,st4 ,,christopher ,,titian1 ,,or ,,tiziano ,,vecelli 7#adgg-aegf7 ,christopher1 or ,offero1 was born in ,palestine in the third century4 ,he was a giant in size but ignorant and poor4 ,he felt that he could not work for any one who was afraid of any one else4 ,he wandered over the country and at last he came to a powerful king and offered to work for him4 ,the king thought it very fine to have a giant for a servant4 ,one day ,offero stood by the king's side while a minstrel sang a song about ,satan4 ,every time the name of ,satan was spoken the king crossed himself4 ,offero was puzzled1 for he never had heard of ,satan1 nor of ,jesus4 ,when he found that the king was afraid of ,satan1 ,offero went to find the man the king was afraid of4 ,offero found ,satan and became his servant4 ,but as they went through the land ,offero saw that ,satan always went away around the little shrines4 ,offero asked ,satan why he did that4 ,satan said he did not like to come near the cross where was the crucified ,one4 ,then ,offero knew that he was afraid of ,jesus4 ,he went out to find ,jesus4 ,at last an old hermit told ,offero to go to a river where people were often drowned and to carry every one across on his back1 and that maybe he would find ,jesus4 ,offero built himself a hut and spent years carrying people over the stream and no one was drowned4 ,one stormy night ,offero thought he heard a child's voice calling him4 ,he went out two or three times4 ,at last the child appeared and asked ,offero to carry him over4 ,offero started4 ,the storm grew worse and the water rose high and the child grew very1 very heavy4 ,when ,offero set the child down1 he said1 ,i feel as though ,i had carried the whole world6 ,the child answered3 ,offero1 you have carried the maker of the world4 ,i am ,jesus1 whom you have sought4 ,you shall be called ,christ-,offero--the ,christ-bearer--from now on4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #de4 ,,st4 ,,christopher4 ,,titian4 ,,doges' ,,palace1 ,,venice ,,the ,,blue ,,boy ,,thomas ,,gainsborough 7#agbg-aghh7 ,gainsborough began to draw and paint when he was a child4 ,he often entertained his companions by drawing pictures for them while they read the lessons to him4 ,one morning ,thomas got up with the sun and went out into the garden to sketch4 ,there was in the garden a wonderful pear-tree full of ripe pears1 and the pears had been disappearing very mysteriously4 ,while ,thomas was making his drawings he saw a man's face appear suddenly above the stone wall4 ,he quickly made a sketch of the face1 and frightened the man before he could get away with the fruit4 ,at the breakfast-table the young artist told his father what he had done and showed him the sketch4 ,his father knew the man and sent for him4 ,when the man was accused of stealing the pears he denied it1 but when he was shown the picture ,thomas had made of him he confessed that he had taken the pears4 ,artists1 like all of us1 want to lay down rules for every one to follow who is doing their same kind of work4 ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds said1 ,the masses of light in a picture ought to be always of a warm1 mellow colour--yellow1 red1 or yellowish white2 and the blue1 the grey1 or green colours should be kept almost entirely out of the masses4 ,gainsborough did not agree with him4 ,to show ,sir ,joshua that he was wrong ,gainsborough painted pictures in blue and green4 ,the famous ,blue ,boy alone proved that he was right4 ,the boy has on a blue satin suit and he stands out-of-doors in green grass with green foliage and blue sky around him4 ,when ,sir ,joshua saw ,gainsborough's blue-green pictures he said frankly1 ,i cannot think how he produces his effects4 ,these two men were never good friends yet when ,gainsborough was near death ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds came to his bedside1 and when ,gainsborough died ,reynolds was one of the pall-bearers4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #df4 ,,the ,,blue ,,boy4 ,,gainsborough4 ,private ,gallery1 ,henry ,huntington1 ,los ,angeles1 ,california ,,the ,,sleeping ,,girl ,,jan ,,van ,,der ,,meer ,,of ,,delft 7#afcb-afge7 ,i want you to know and love the ,dutch pictures4 ,the painters were called little masters1 simply because they painted small pictures for the homes4 ,for the homes6 ,the ,dutch wanted pictures to hang on their walls2 pictures they could live with4 ,now what do you think of the ,sleeping ,girl8 ,do you know ,i could live with that picture and feel that ,i always had something to make me happy8 ,it is so homy4 ,see how comfortable the girl is6 ,of course a good healthy girl has no business to be sleeping in the daytime1 but we can forgive her now that van der ,meer has caught her asleep and let us see her4 ,then look at that wonderful rug6 ,was ever anything so soft and velvety8 ,if we knew about rugs we might tell its name and maybe its age4 ,van der ,meer had a way of catching people without their knowing it4 ,he seems to have cut a piece out of the wall where he peeped in and painted what he saw4 ,we are glad the girl left the door open into another room so that we can see the table and pictures and part of the window-frame4 ,i think these things are reflected in a looking-glass4 ,van der ,meer painted only about forty pictures1 and eight of those are in the ,united ,states4 ,they are among our greatest art treasures4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #dg4 ,,the ,,sleeping ,,girl4 ,,van ,,der ,,meer4 ,courtesy of the ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city ,,st4 ,,antony ,,and ,,the ,,christ-,,child ,,bartholome ,,esteban ,,murillo 7#afah-afhb7 ,many very curious legends are told of ,st4 ,antony of ,padua1 who died in #abca4 ,he was a close friend of ,st4 ,francis 7see ,st4 ,francis and his ,birds1 page #gf74 ,one story says that one time he was preaching about the ,savior when the child ,jesus came and sat on his open ,bible4 ,it is this story that ,murillo painted his picture to illustrate4 ,again and again ,murillo has shown us ,st4 ,antony with the ,christ-child1 but never more beautifully than here4 ,this is one of ,murillo's greatest religious pictures4 ,another story is told of ,st4 ,antony4 ,one day he was preaching the funeral sermon of a rich young man when he exclaimed3 ,his heart is buried in his treasure-chest2 go seek it there and you will find it4 ,sure enough when the friends of the rich young man opened the treasure-chest there was the heart1 and no heart was found in the young man's dead body4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #dh4 ,,st4 ,,anthony ,,and ,,the ,,christ-,,child4 ,,murillo4 ,,museum ,,of ,,seville1 ,,spain4 ,,king ,,lear ,,edwin ,,austin ,,abbey 7#aheb-aiaa7 ,the story of ,king ,lear is one of the most pitiful of ,shakespeare's play4 ,it is about the thanklessness of children to a father4 ,old ,king ,lear had three daughters--,goneril1 ,regan1 and ,cordelia4 ,he loved these daughters dearly and he believed that they loved him4 ,as he grew old in life he thought he would divide his kingdom and property among them equally2 then there would be no trouble about his wealth after he was dead4 ,of course he expected to make his home with them in turn as long as he lived4 ,naturally he went to ,goneril1 the eldest daughter1 first4 ,very soon he found that he was not wanted4 ,she had the money--her father's money--but why should she be troubled with her old father8 ,he then went to ,regan1 his second child1 but she too refused to make a home for him4 ,the third daughter1 ,cordelia1 loved her father dearly and wanted him to live with her that she might care for him in his old age4 ,by a strange mishap the old father thought that ,cordelia1 his beloved child1 was false to him4 ,he wandered off on the heath in a fearful storm and at last found shelter in a hut where he thinks even his faithful dogs are against him4 ,he cries out pitifully3 ,the little dogs and all1 ,tray1 ,blanche and ,sweetheart1 see they bark at me4 ,abbey has painted the scene when the old king is leaving heart-broken1 for he thinks ,cordelia1 the child he loves best1 is deserting him4 ,cordelia1 knowing how false her sisters are1 is saying3 ,i know you what you are2 ,and1 like a sister1 am most loath to call ,your faults as they are named4 ,love well our father4 ,abbey's story of ,the ,holy ,grail in the ,boston ,library is one of ,america's great series of paintings for wall decoration4 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #di4 ,,king ,,lear4 ,,abbey4 ,courtesy of the ,metropolitan ,museum of ,art1 ,new ,york ,city4 ,,sunset ,,in ,,the ,,woods ,,george ,,inness 7#ahbe-ahid7 ,whenever you can1 ,i want you to find out what the painter says about his own pictures4 ,we feel very glad that ,george ,inness told us about ,sunset in the ,woods4 ,he said in #ahia3 ,the material for my picture was taken from a sketch made near ,hastings1 on the ,hudson1 ,new ,york1 twenty years ago4 ,this picture was commenced seven years ago1 but until last winter ,i had not obtained any idea equal to the impression received on the spot4 ,the idea is to express an effect of light in the woods at sunset4 ,what a wonderful glow he has on those trees beyond the big rock away back in the picture4 ,and see the light on the trunk of the big tree near us4 ,i believe the light is gradually disappearing as we look4 ,somehow we feel the birds are twittering as they go to bed and the flowers are nodding their heads1 they are so sleepy4 ,soon it will be dark and the owl will screech and the night insects will buzz4 ,come1 we must go home or we cannot see our way6 ,illustration3 ,,fig4 #ej4 ,,sunset ,,in ,,the ,,woods4 ,,inness4 ,courtesy of the ,corcoran ,art ,gallery1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c4 ,,index ,abbey1 ,edwin ,austin1 #ih1 #ii ,angelico1 ,fra ,giovanni1 #ch1 #ci ,angelo1 ,michael1 #bc1 #bd1 #hf ,arthur1 ,king1 #hb1 #hc ,bastien-,lepage1 ,jules1 #bb1 #bc ,botticelli1 ,sandro1 #df1 #dg ,breton1 ,jules ,adolphe1 #eh1 #ei ,caesar 7,tiberius71 #gj ,carpaccio1 ,vittore1 #ed1 #ee ,chardin1 ,jean ,baptiste ,simeon1 #gh1 #gi ,charles ,i1 #af1 #bh1 #db ,charles ,,ii1 #da1 #dc ,charles ,v1 #cb ,charles ,,vi1 ,,vii1 #bb ,corot1 ,jean ,baptiste 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