Produced by Ron Swanson [Frontispiece: RED RIDING HOOD From the picture by G. F. Watts, in the Birmingham Art Gallery Page 197] THE BOOK OF ART FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY AGNES ETHEL CONWAY AND SIR MARTIN CONWAY WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1 First published September 1909 as "The Children's Book of Art" Reprinted in 1914, 1927, and 1935 Made in Great Britain. Printed by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh. TO MY LITTLE FRIENDS AGNES AND ROSANNE NOTE My thanks are due and are cordially rendered to the Earl of Yarborough, Sir Frederick Cook, and the authorities of Trinity College, Cambridge, for permission to reproduce their pictures; to Lady Alfred Douglas and Mr. Henry Newbolt for leave to quote from their poems; to Mr. Everard Green, Somerset Herald, for all that is new in the interpretation of the Wilton diptych; to Miss K. K. Radford for the translation in Chapter VIII., and to all the friends who have helped me with criticism and suggestions. A. E. C. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I INTRODUCTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY IN EUROPE . . . . 14 III RICHARD II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 IV THE VAN EYCKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 V THE RENAISSANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 VI RAPHAEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 VII THE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE . . . . . . . . 93 VIII THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH . . . . . . 104 IX REMBRANDT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 X PETER DE HOOGH AND CUYP . . . . . . . . . 133 XI VAN DYCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 XII VELASQUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 XIII REYNOLDS AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . . . 165 XIV TURNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 XV THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . . . . . . . . . 188 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE COLOURS OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS Red Ridinghood . . . . . . . . . . _G. F. Watts_ _Frontispiece_ Richard II. before the Virgin PAGE and Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 The Three Maries . . . . . . . . . _H. Van Eyck_ . . . . . 48 St. Jerome in his study . . . . . _Antonello da Messina_ 65 The Nativity . . . . . . . . . . . _Sandro Botticelli_ . . 76 The Knight's Dream . . . . . . . . _Raphael_ . . . . . . . 85 The Golden Age . . . . . . . . . . _Giorgione_ . . . . . . 96 St. George destroying the Dragon . _Tintoret_ . . . . . . 102 Edward, Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward VI. . . . . _Holbein_ . . . . . . . 111 A Man in Armour . . . . . . . . . _Rembrandt_ . . . . . . 126 An Interior . . . . . . . . . . . _P. de Hoogh_ . . . . . 134 Landscape with Cattle . . . . . . _Cuyp_ . . . . . . . . 141 William II. of Orange . . . . . . _Van Dyck_ . . . . . . 146