Hana in the Time of the Tulips.Deborah Noyes, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick can·dle·wick n. 1. The wick of a candle. 2. a. A soft heavy cotton thread similar to that used to make wicks for candles. b. Embroidery made of tufts of this thread. Press, 2004. Illus., hardcover, 40 pp., $16.99. Hana's story traces the brief, uniquely disastrous history of the seventeenth-century Dutch tulip tulip [Pers.,=turban], any plant of the large genus Tulipa, hardy, bulbous-rooted members of the family Liliaceae (lily family), indigenous to north temperate regions of the Old World from the Mediterranean to Japan and growing most abundantly on the steppes market. Her father is a merchant who goes overboard in dealing with these bulbs while she watches. She tries to help Rembrandt, a family friend, who has a cameo cameo (kăm`ēō), small relief carving, usually on striated precious or semiprecious stones or on shell. The design, often a portrait head, is commonly cut in the light-colored vein, and the dark one is left as the background. appearance. Visualized in the style of the period with a simulated Rembrandt etching etching, the art of engraving with acid on metal; also the print taken from the metal plate so engraved. In hard-ground etching the plate, usually of copper or zinc, is given a thin coating or ground of acid-resistant resin. in end-pages and small vignettes, the pictures convey much of the young girl's emotions. This work is a fine example of how competent artworks may enhance historical studies of art, but also, more broadly, how they enhance cultural investigations. |
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