Pictures Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young PeopleBacon, Mary Schell Hoke
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Pictures Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People
Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
Art -- Juvenile literature; Painters -- Juvenile literature; Painting -- Juvenile literature
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_
I
ANDREA DEL SARTO
(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 that he was dependent on her smile for all that he did which
was well done, and her frown plunged him into despair.
Andrea's wife cared nothing for his genius, painting did not interest
her, and she had no worthy ambition for her husband, but she loved
fine clothes and good living, and so encouraged him enough to keep him
earning these things for her. As soon as some money was made she would
persuade him to work no more till it was spent; and even when he had
made agreements to paint certain pictures for which he was paid in
advance she would torment him till he gave all of his time to her
whims, neglected his duty and spent the money for which he had
rendered no service. Thus in time he became actually dishonest, as we
shall see. It is a sad sort of story to tell of so brilliant a young
man.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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