Manning, Mick,

The story of paintings : a history of art for children / by Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom. - First Sterling edition. - 87 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

"Union Square Kids" Includes index.

Lascaux Cave paintings (c. 15,500 BCE) -- Our story begins (an introduction) -- The Lamentation (c. 1305) / The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) / Appreciating Potted Chrysanthemum in Tranquility (c. 1465) / The Hunt in the Forest (c. 1470) / The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) / Mona Lisa (c. 1503-19) / The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (1508-12) The Ambassadors (1533) / Hunters in the Snow (1565) / Vegetables in a Bowl or The Gardener (1587-90) / The Card Sharps (c. 1595) / Self-Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1628) / The Maids of Honor (1656) / The Love Letter (c. 1669) / Still Life of Flowers on a Table Ledge (1700) / An Elephant and Rider Trampling a Tiger (c. 1770) / Catfight (1786) / The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1822) / The Fighting Temeraire (1839) / Tiger in a Tropical Storm or Surprised! (1891) / The Scream (1893) / The Water-Lily Pond (1899) / Goldfish (1911) / The Birthday (1915) / The Persistence of Memory (1931) / Summer Days (1936) / Portrait of Dora Maar (1939) / Take Off (1943) / Self-Portrait with Portrait of Doctor Farill (1951) by Frida Kahlo -- Blue Poles (number 11, 1952) (1952) / Fun Fair at Daisy Nook (1953) / In the Car (1963) / Furious Man (1982) / by Giotto di Bondone -- by Jan van Eyck -- by Shen Zhou -- by Paolo Uccello -- by Sandro Botticelli -- by Leonardo da Vinci -- by Michelangelo -- by Hans Holbein the Younger -- by Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- by Giuseppe Arcimboldo -- by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio -- by Rembrandt van Rijn -- by Diego Velázquez -- by Johannes Vermeer -- by Rachel Ruysch -- by Mir Kalan Khan -- by Francisco Goya -- by Joh Martin -- by J.M.W. Turner -- The Starry Night (1889) / by Vincent van Gogh -- by Henri Rousseau -- by Edvard Munch -- by Claude Monet -- Dance in Gopsmor (1906) / by Anders Zorn -- The Red-Checkered Tablecloth (1910) / by Pierre Bonnard -- by Henri Matisse -- by Marc Chagall -- Autoportrait (Tamara in the green bugatti) (1929) / by Tamara de Lempicka -- by Salvador Dali -- by Georgia O'Keeffe -- by Pablo PIcasso -- by Dame Laura Knight -- by Jackson Pollock -- by L.S. Lowry -- by Roy Lichtenstein -- by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

"Take a wonderful journey through time to discover the story of paintings, from Stone Age cave art to the graffiti-inspired work of Jean-Michel Basquiat."--Back cover.

ISBN: 9781454927020 145492702X

LCCN: 2018276449

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Painting--Appreciation.
Painting--History.
Painters--Biography.
Art--History.
Artists--Biography.
Art appreciation.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Literature.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: ND1146 / .M338 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 759