Fine Arts
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides.
Steedman, Amy.
Knights of Art.
Jacobs. 2.00
Best book on art for children (1907). Contains sketches of eighteen Italian painters from Giotto to Paul Veronese, based on Vasari, and attractively written. Sixteen color and eight black and white reproductions.
New York State Library.
This volume seems to the compiler of this List one of the few books on art which children will read with real enjoyment. It is not included with a view to having it take the place of a history of art, but to give a part of the information which old Vasari has handed down to us with such charm. The language is delightful, and we carry away some of the atmosphere of that sunny Italian period. It is a pity that we are not given illustrations photographed from the originals, instead of more or less modified drawings.