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Does anyone know of a book for 10-12 yo's? In or Out of Print?
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Great Christian artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Fra Angelico, Murillo, Rubens, Van Dyck [by] Edward F. Garesché.
found this looking for Michelangelo in our library tonight..........
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BirdcageBooks.com sells a couple of things that touch on Fra Angelico. First, they have a package on Renaissance Art that includes an interesting book covering the "biggies" in Renaissance Art, including Fra Angelico, as well as a memory game of paintings by Fra Angelico, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Botticelli. They ALSO have a Renaissance "Go Fish for Art" game that uses works by these same artists. My kids really like these products, the booklet is very interesting and the quality of the art reproductions is excellent.
Also, you might see if you can get a copy of Hillyer's book, "Child's History of Art: Painting" ( or the more expensive single volume entitled "Child's History of Art" that covers Painting, Sculpture and Architecture). This is a fabulous book, very simply written but with lots of great little factoids and stories that the kids will remember. I beleive it has a chapter on Fra Angelico, but even if it doesn't it's worth getting. Even though the book is geared to a fourth grade level, I often have my 7th and 9th graders read it, too, because it really "sticks". You might be able to order the individual copies a la carte from Calvert School in Baltimore, but you can defintely find old copies on Abebooks.com AFter years of chasing around the individual volumes in the various kids' desks, I finally gave up and sprung for larger, harder-to-lose, hardbound 3-in-1 volume and love it, love it.
Kelly in FL
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I do not know of a children's book specifically on Fra Angelico, but we like to use calendars for picture study. How about this one published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
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Not a book, but this is the story of Fra Angelicotaken from Knights of Art, by Amy Steedman.
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Thanks everyone for the ideas. Now we can finally get started. I couldn't find the Great Christian Artists book that Chari recommended, so I was still wondering what to do.
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Even though it doesn't have anything on Fra Angelico, I thought I'd mention another good source for art history at home. We've been using Barry Stebbing's "God and the History of Art" and have been very happy with it. So many of the contemporary art books out there dwell on the unsavory aspects of artists' lives. This one focuses on the positive. Besides providing 35 paint cards of various masterpieces, he also has a lot of great info on techinique, like perpective (and the development of it), sphumato, contrapasto, chiaroscuro ---all that good stuff, and lots more. Basically, it's a book that can be as much, or as little, as you want it to be. We really use it mostly for Art History, although it includes over 250 art lessons. The only caveat is that the author is unabashedly Protestant, though kindly so, and once you get to the Renaissance, there are LOTS of errors and and a fair bit of revisionist history from the Protestant point of view. However, it isn't mean spirited (like some books are), just inaccurate. He's by far and away at his best when he stays away from politics/history and sticks to art!
The book is billed as being for ages 10 and up, though I use it for (edited) read-alouds for my younger children as well. Though it was pricey (can't remember the exact price, just that it was on the high side), it has been a VERY useful resource and money well-spent!
Kelly in FL
"Why do you keep filling gallery after gallery with endless pictures of the one ever-reiterated theme of Christ in weakness, of Christ upon the cross, Christ dying, Christ hanging dead? Why do you stop there as if the curtain closed upon that horror? Keep the curtain open, and with the cross in the foreground, let us see beyond it to the Easter dawn with its beams streaming upon the risen Christ, Christ alive, Christ ruling, Christ triumphant.
...For we should be ringing out over the world that Christ has won, that evil is toppling, that the end is sure, and that death is followed by victory. That is the tonic we need to keep us healthy, the trumpet blast to fire our blood and send us crowding in behind our Master, swinging happily upon our way, laughing and singing, and recklessly unafraid, because the feel of victory is in the air, and our hearts thrill to it."
Michelangelo, 1564 (and the preface to "God & the History of Art" by Barry Stebbing)
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Hi,
We studied Fra Angelico earlier this year, but without an actual children's book for the biography. We did use the short BIO from a book I own titled "The Art Gallery Stories" (Philip Wilkinson), as well as the one in the Kohl book.
Sometimes I just read portions of an artist's biography from the web gallery of art website. (www.wga.hu)
I found a cheap copy of a Fra Angelico book by Phaidon publishers (author Christopher Lloyd). It had nice information on the prints; but really, the website above has great info on each print as well.
I also get most of my prints from that site: I simply print them out, highest quality, on photo-paper (choose fit to page option). They turn out amazingly well! And now I don't spend hours searching for art anymore.
I had the kids illuminate coloring pages, and also copy his artwork.
My ds also chose Fra Angelico in a saints celebration we participated in. He read his narration, we brought the artwork, and he dressed in a dominican robe and carried a paint palette and brushes. Incidentally, this made me feel wonderful about using the CM method. The other children either read the saint stories directly from books (all bookmarked by their moms), or read something written by their moms.
Oh! I almost forgot, there are little rosary books with artwork by Fra Angelico which I ordered through Amazon (Through the Rosary with Fra Angelico, and Through the Mysteries of Light with Giotto and Fra Angelico). We are still using these books to pray our daily decade, with the children taking turns leading the decade.
God bless,
Beth in MD
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