Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories: A Children's History of Art

Chapters

• 1 Lion Man: The First Artists p.13
• 2 Animal Magic: The Cave Painters p.17
• 3 Picture Stories: Ancient Painters, Carvers, and Scribes p.21
• 4 Seeing It My Way: Akhenaten's Artists p.25
• 5 Life Goes On: Tutankhamun's Tomb: p.29
• 6 Travelers' Tales: Kleitias the Vase Painter p.33
• 7 Big Ideas: Phidias and the Parthenon p.37
• 8 The Warrior Factory: Qin Shi Huang's Craftsmen p.43
• 9 A Tall Order: The Sculptor and the Emperor p.47
• 10 Enjoy the View: A Roman Painter p.51
• 11 Eye to Eye: A Mosaic Maker in Saint Sophia p.57
• 12 The Calligrapher's Dream: Ibn al-Bawwab p.61
• 13 Mountain Man: Fan Kuan p.65
• 14 Floating City: The Builders of Angkor Wat p.69
• 15 Light Fantastic: The Stained-Glass Makers of Chartres p.75
• 16 Real-Life Stories: Giotto p.79
• 17 All Sides of Life: Medieval Scribes and Illuminators p.83
• 18 Head People: The Bronze-Casters of Ife p.87
• 19 Snow Angels: Andrei Rublev p.91
• 20 Discovering the Future: Donatello p.97
• 21 The Smallest Detail: Jan van Eyck p.103
• 22 Fly to the Sun: The Aztecs p.107
• 23 Under the Skin: Leonardo Da Vinci p.111
• 24 Work Hard, Be Famous: Albrecht Durer p.115
• 25 Stone into Statue: Michelangelo p.119
• 26 The Art of Philosophy: Raphael p.123
• 27 The Night is Young: Titian p.127
• 28 Cold Comfort: Pieter Breugel p.133
• 29 King of the Cheetahs: Basawan and Dharm Das p.137
• 30 Light Supper: Caravaggio p.141
• 31 The Flower Girl: Rembrandt p.145
• 32 Painting is Me: Artemisia Gentileschi p.151
• 33 Good Morning! Diego Velasquez p.155
• 34 Imagine Being There: Claude Lorrain p.159
• 35 The Longer You Look: Johannes Vermeer p.163
• 36 House of Cards: Jean-Simeon Chardin p.167
• 37 The Storm and the Calm: Jacques-Louis David p.173
• 38 No Heroes: Francisco Goya p.177
• 39 Rocks and Stones and Trees: Caspar David Friedrich p.181
• 40 Under the Wave: Katsushika Hokusai p.185
• 41 Artistic Chemistry: William Henry Fox Talbot p.189
• 42 I'll Show You!: Joseph Mallord William Turner p.193
• 43 The Plan of Campaign: Gustave Courbet p.199
• 44 Worth Every Cent: Frederic Edwin Church p.203
• 45 Cradle of Art: Berthe Morisot p.209
• 46 The Great Outdoors: Claude Monet p.213
• 47 Split-Second Timing: Eadweard Muybridge p.219
• 48 What is Color Made of?: Georges Seurat p.223
• 49 Vincent's Starry Night: Vincent van Gogh p.227
• 50 In Her Hands: Camille Claudel p.231
• 51 It All Fits Together: Paul Cezanne p.235
• 52 Cut and Paste: Georges Braque p.241
• 53 Happy Birthday!: Marc Chagall p.245
• 54 Spinning a Story: Marcel Duchamp p.249
• 55 Comrades!: Varvara Stepanova p.253
• 56 Circles of Life: Vasily Kandinsky p.259
• 57 The Girl Between Worlds: Frida Kahlo p.263
• 58 Sea of Dreams: Joan Miro p.267
• 59 The Lie that Tells the Truth: Pablo Picasso p.271
• 60 Pebbles and Bombs: Henry Moore p.275
• 61 It's All Rubbish!: Kurt Schwitters p.279
• 62 Straight from the Can: Jackson Pollock p.285
• 63 In the Blue Morning: Henri Matisse p.291
• 64 What Happened Here?: Anselm Kiefer p.295
• 65 My Dreaming: Emily Kame Kngwarreye p.299
• 66 Come Inside: Louise Bourgeois p.303
• 67 Bottletop Magic: El Anatsui p.307
• 68 Sowing Seeds: Ai Weiwei p.311