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Anholt Art Package

Admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:01:44 +0000

Bundled together to help you save! The activity book is a non-optional component of this bundle and then you'll need to choose a minimum of three picture books to complete the package. Keep in mind that the bundled price changes depending on how many books you purchase. This art instruction book for children was devised [...]

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Michelangelo

Dayna Barendregt — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 02:17:25 +0000

Michelangelo had a turbulent, quarrelsome life. He was obsessed with perfection and felt that everyone–from family members to his demanding patrons–took advantage and let him down. His long and difficult association with Pope Julius II yielded his greatest masterpiece, the radiant paintings in the Sistine Chapel, and his most disastrous undertaking, the monumental tomb that caused the artist frustration and heartache for forty years.

With her thoroughly researched, lively narrative and superbly detailed illustrations, Diane Stanley has captured the life of an artist who towered above the late Renaissance–and whose brilliance in architecture, painting, and sculpture amazes and moves us to this day.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Dayna Barendregt — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 02:56:00 +0000

As a boy, Leonardo was apprenticed to a famous artist. But he quickly became more skillful than his teacher, and his passionate interests went far beyond art. Fascinated with the human body, he carried out his own experiments in secret. He filled thousands of pages with plans for incredible inventions including a submarine, an air-cooling system, glasses to see the moon larger, and even a flying machine!

Diane Stanley blends wonderful storytelling with gorgeous illustrations to convey the stunning scope of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius in a book that has won many awards and earned two starred reviews.

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Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail

Angela — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 02:31:53 +0000

Sylvette is a shy little girl, but her neighbor happens to be the artist Pablo Picasso. Attracted by Sylvette’s classical facial profile and her lovely ponytail hair style, Picasso convinces her to overcome her shyness and pose for a series of artworks. These drawings, paintings, and sculptures soon become world famous, and encouraged to abandon [...]

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Degas and the Little Dancer

Angela — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 02:16:07 +0000

Young Marie wants to be a ballerina, but her parents have no money for lessons. She must earn what little money she can as an artist’s model at a ballet school. Then, her life takes an unusual turn when she models for the famous sculptor, Edgar Degas. This is a title in Barron’s Anholt’s Artists [...]

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Cezanne and the Apple Boy

Angela — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 02:11:55 +0000

This brand-new title in Laurence Anholt’s children’s series about famous artists recounts an adventure experienced by Paul, a little boy who is named after his father, Paul Cézanne. The elder Cézanne had been away from home for so long that the boy has difficulty recognizing his father when he joins him on a painting expedition [...]

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Renoir and the Boy With the Long Hair

Angela — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 01:32:28 +0000

Jean, this story’s handsome, long-haired little boy, happens to have a very famous father—the artist Pierre Auguste Renoir. But the boy also has a problem. Despite Jean’s many protests, his father thinks Jean’s hair is too beautiful to be cut short. This renowned artist loves to use his son as a model in many of [...]

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Rembrant and the Boy Who Drew Dogs

Hester VanBraeden — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:07:36 +0000

Author Molly Blaisdell transports young readers to the city of Amsterdam in the 1650s. It is a time when world-renowned artist Rembrandt van Rijn is at the height of fame among his patrons—and when his young son Titus longs to imitate his father and become a great painter. At first, Rembrandt rebuffs Titus’s attempts at [...]

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