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    The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures
    The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures
    The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures
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    The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures

    By Lorinda Munson Bryant

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures - Lorinda Munson Bryant

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures, by Lorinda Munson Bryant

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      Title: The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures

      Author: Lorinda Munson Bryant

      Release Date: September 26, 2008 [eBook #26703]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF CELEBRATED PICTURES***

      E-text prepared by Sankar Viswanathan, Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      Transcriber's Note.

      The images in this eBook of the paintings are from the original book. However many of these paintings have undergone extensive restoration. The restored paintings are presented as modern color images with links.

      THE CHILDREN'S BOOK

      OF

      CELEBRATED PICTURES

      BY

      LORINDA MUNSON BRYANT

      Author of Famous Pictures of Real Boys and Girls, "Famous

      Pictures of Real Animals," etc.

      Please click here for a modern color image

      PUBLISHED BY THE CENTURY CO.

      New York

      Copyright, 1922, by

      The Century Co.

      To My Daughter

      BERTHA COOKINGHAM BRYANT

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Dear Children:

      The stories I am telling about the pictures and their painters in this book are gathered from many countries. Some of them belong to very early times when history was told to grown up people by story-tellers at banquets and in the homes, on the street corners and public halls. Some of the stories are legends and traditions that grew up with the beginnings of the Christian era. All of them are taken from authentic sources and many of them illustrate some natural law.

      The artists who painted these pictures knew history and the early myths, the fairy-tales, the legends and the traditions, the Bible and the Apocrypha. We love these pictures because they are beautiful and true, but really to understand them we must know what the artists had in mind when they painted them.

      If you learn to know these pictures and love them, I will make you another book soon about statues and their stories.

      With love and best wishes, from your friend,

      Lorinda Munson Bryant

      THE HOLY FAMILY

      Bernardino Pintoricchio (1454-1513)

      n looking at pictures of the old masters you will often see one called the Holy Family. I want you to know who belonged to the Holy Family. The grown people are Joseph and Mary, the father and mother of Jesus; they had no last names at that time. The children are Jesus and his cousin, John the Baptist, six months older than Jesus. Sometimes the little John's mother, Elizabeth, is in the picture and sometimes his father, Zacharias, is there also.

      In this picture painted by Pintoricchio, Jesus is about

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