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Identifier: howtoshowpictur00hurl (find matches)
Title: How to show pictures to children
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Whereupon he
burst open and she stepped forth unharmed and
radiant, just as we see her in Raphael's charming
picture in the Louvre.
The gentle St. Francis, who preached to the birds,
called all the beasts his brethren, and went about
doing good, is a character whom children should be
taught to love. The church at Assisi is full of quaint
decorations by Giotto and other early Italians illus-
trating the life of the Saint. Some of these are very
acceptable to children, but we need not go so far
afield for the material, since Boutet de Monvel has
given us the whole story in the series of designs for
Everybody's St. Francis. The story of St. Anthony
of Padua, to whom a vision of the Christ-child was
vouchsafed, makes a very tender picture which
touches a child's heart readily. This was a favorite
subject with Murillo, and in many schools and homes
prints are to be seen from the Spanish painter's
works, showing the good man kneeling with the
precious babe in his arms. St. Christopher wading
through the stream with the Christ-child on his
shoulder is another favorite picture subject with the
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Anderson, Photo.
SAINT CHRISTOPHER

STORY PICTURES 127

children. They love to hear how the giant buffeted
with the storm-tossed waters, as his burden grew
heavier and heavier, till he set the child safely on the
farther bank and learned that he had been carrying
the Maker of the world.
Of St. Cecilia, whose music drew the angels down
from heaven to listen, of St. Ursula, who voyaged to
distant shrines with ten thousand maiden attendants,
and of St. Genevieve, the little French shepherdess
whose name is revered in Paris, we also have many
attractive story pictures.
From legend to allegory is but a step, and allegory
is very common as a subject of mural decoration in
public buildings. Such pictures are often very inter-
esting and suggestive to children if properly ex-
plained, and possess a certain kind of story quality.
The works of Puvis de Chavannes in the Boston
Public Library are particularly appropriate for
school, as they illustrate various branches of learning.
The subjects in the Congressional Library, at Wash-
ington, are widely circulated and extremely popular
for schoolroom.

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