Twenty world-famous artworks are featured in easy-to-follow chronological order, accompanied by informative texts that bring each masterpiece and its story vividly to life. Complete with extensive reference material, comprising chronologies of the artists, major collections of the artists’ works and a glossary, this book will delight and engage all children.

Extent: 96 pp
Format: plc (no jacket)
Illustrations: 134
Publication date: 2010-10-25
Size: 28.9 x 24.9 cm
ISBN: 9780500238806

The Arnolfini Portrait (Jan Van Eyck) • The Battle of San Romano (Paolo Uccello) • Primavera (Sandro Botticelli) • Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) • Children’s Games (Pieter Bruegel the Elder) • An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (Diego Velázquez) • The Artist’s Studio (Jan Vermeer) • The Skate (Jean-Baptiste- Siméon Chardin) • Self-Portrait Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting (Angelica Kauffman) • The Monk by the Sea (Caspar David Friedrich) • The Raft of the Medusa (Théodore Géricault) • The Hay Wain (John Constable) • Burial at Ornans (Gustave Courbet) • Ophelia (John Everett Millais) • Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) (Winslow Homer) • La Loge (Auguste Renoir) • Summer’s Day (Berthe Morisot) • A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat) • Mont Sainte-Victoire (Paul Cézanne) • Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Paul Gauguin)

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