Fine art books for young people

Ancient instruments, Sumerian, Cycladic, Egyptian are portrayed, and paintings, ancient, medieval, and modern are reproduced with descriptive text.

Works by such diverse artists as Vermeer, Chagall, Monet, Mondrian, Turner and Lautrec show how the city has been depicted in art from medieval times to the present. Brief text explains the painting and its historical setting.

American history is highlighted, beginning with a photograph of a model of the Santa Maria, and concluding with the reproduction of the painting Birmingham, 1963, and including Gilbert Start's George Washington, and Grant Wood's Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.

The beauty of real and imaginary birds are revealed in many ways in paintings, sketches and sculptures through the ages.

Ancient instruments, Sumerian, Cycladic, Egyptian are portrayed, and paintings, ancient, medieval, and modern are reproduced with descriptive text.

Works by such diverse artists as Vermeer, Chagall, Monet, Mondrian, Turner and Lautrec show how the city has been depicted in art from medieval times to the present. Brief text explains the painting and its historical setting.

American history is highlighted, beginning with a photograph of a model of the Santa Maria, and concluding with the reproduction of the painting Birmingham, 1963, and including Gilbert Start's George Washington, and Grant Wood's Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.

The beauty of real and imaginary birds are revealed in many ways in paintings, sketches and sculptures through the ages.