The Book of Art for Young People by Conway

Red Riding Hood by G.F. Watts


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Running time: 4 hours, 12 minutes

01 Introduction

02 The Thirteenth Century in Europe
Richard II before the Virgin and Child

03 Richard II
The Three Maries by H. Van Eyck

04 The Van Eycks

Saint Jerome in his study by Antonello da Messina

05 The Renaissance
The Mystical Nativity by Sandro Botticelli

06 Raphael

The Knight's Dream by Raphael



07 The Renaissance in Venice

The Golden Age by Giorgione

08 The Renaissance in the North
St. George destroying the dragon by Tintoret

Edward, Prince of Wales, Afterward Edward VI by Holbein

09 Rembrandt

A Man in Armor by Rembrandt

10 Peter de Hoogh and Cuyp

An Interior by P. de Hoogh


Landscape with Cattle by Cuyp


11 Van Dyck

William II of Orange by Van Dyck


12 Velasquez

Don Balthazar Carlos by Velaszquez

13 Reynolds and the Eighteenth Century

The Duke of Gloucester by Sir J. Reynolds

14 Turner

The Fighting Temeraire by Turner

15 The Nineteenth Century

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