Cave Paintings to Picasso.Henry Sayre. San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden : Chronicle Books, 2004. Illus., hardcover, 93 pp., $22.95. Although presented in chronological chron·o·log·i·cal also chron·o·log·ic adj. 1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence. 2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology. order, from 22,000 BC to 1964, there has been no attempt to suggest any sort of progressive evolution. Rather, it is "a picture book ... of stories" offering us "the inside scoop on fifty art masterpieces." The automatic inclusion of the Mona Lisa Mona Lisa La Gioconda, da Vinci’s enchanting portrait. [Ital. Art: Wallechinsky, 190] See : Beauty, Lasting Mona Lisa enigmatic smile beguiles and bewilders. [Ital. and David are joined with a far less famous Chinese scroll painting scroll painting Art form practiced primarily in the Far East. The two dominant types are the Chinese landscape scroll and the Japanese narrative scroll. China's greatest contribution to the history of painting, the landscape hand scroll, reached its greatest period in the and bronze Benin head sculpture, and a Native American hide painting. A page or two displays a photograph of each object and several paragraphs of accessible text telling something about the artist, the socio/historical context, the media, or the meaning. The author basically weaves facts and analysis together to tell the reader stories to inform and even entertain. Third graders, and considerably older students, should be attracted to these fifty short takes. A two-page Glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. is helpful for young readers and an Index is helpful for adults. |
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