Paintings

by Claude Delafosse, Tony Ross, Gallimard Jeunesse

Book Overview

Find out how Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes and how Holbein hid secret images in his paintings. Join in Matisse's colorful dance. Look at the paintings of Bosch, Breugel,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590552015
• ISBN13: 9780590552011
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

clever, engaging, should be in print!

My younger daughter brings this book home from kindergarten every single day. She and her sister pore over it at the breakfast table. There are so many clever things about this book, things that are spot on. I love the way the pictures are displayed as if they are in a museum, and the museum-goers are doing things that echo the contents of the pictures. The transparencies that turn Michelangelo into Adam are clever; I also love the 2 versions of De la Tour's *Cardsharp* where you have to figure out what's different about them. The Holbein anamorphosis is pretty clear to my 6-year-old. I have a PhD in art history and have published about some of these paintings, and frankly I am just thrilled to death that this book has somehow made them exciting to my children. I wish I could get the others in the series--they really should be in print.