Pictures Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People

CONTENTSI. Andrea del Sarto, Florentine SchoolII. Michael Angelo (Buonarroti), Florentine SchoolIII. Arnold Böcklin, Modern German SchoolIV. Marie-Rosa Bonheur, French School,V. Alessandro Botticelli, Florentine SchoolVI. William Adolphe Bouguereau, French (Genre) School VII. Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English...........................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. Read more