Metropolitan Children (Art Ebook) pdf torrent

Metropolitan Children

Metropolitan | 1984 | ISBN: 0810913216 | English | 120 pages | PDF | 26.8 MB


The Metropolitan Museum of Art is always filled with children, and from its vast galleries are gathered together in this beautiful book some of the most delightful tots you will ever meet—jumping for joy or just learning to walk, behaving like angels or acting like imps, embracing their mothers or hugging their pet dogs. From ancient Egypt and twentieth-century Paris, from Persian schoolrooms and American parlors, hundreds of youngsters have made their way into paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and ceramics to captivate us just as they captivated the artists through whose eyes we see them. Some of our greatest masters, including Rembrandt, Rubens, Fragonard, and Houdon, have proudly given us images of their own offspring, while other artists, as diverse as Holbein and Hokusai, Chardin and van Gogh, reveal a rare sensitivity to the innocence, charm, and complexity of childhood. Metropolitan Children is as full of life as a kindergarten, as colorful as a room filled with flowers, as appealing as a baby's first smile