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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A subject closely akin to the Madonna and Child is
Charity, a symbolic expression of that all-embracing
spirit of love which gathers the children of the world
in its care. A noble group by Andrea del Sarto treats
this subject as a motherly woman seated, with a child
at her breast, another on her knee, and another at her
feet. Burne-Jones made a tall, narrow panel of Char-
ity standing with a baby on each arm and four chil-
dren at her feet. Abbot Thayer's painting in the Bos-
ton Art Museum is a third well-known example.
Here Charity extends both arms as if to shelter all
children beneath them, and two little ones stand at
her feet nestling against her sides. Such pictures are
admirably adapted to the nursery and the lower grade
schoolroom. And perhaps here, better than anywhere
else, should be mentioned that beautiful picture of
kindred theme, Murillo's Guardian Angel.
The Holy Family is an enlargement of the Ma-
donna subject by the introduction of other figures.
A pleasant fancy of the old masters was to represent
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From a carbon print by Braun, Clement & Co. John Andrew & Son Sc.

JESUS AND JOHN — "THE CHILDREN OF THE SHELL"

The Prado Gallery, Madrid


PICTURES OF CHILDREN 101

the little St. John Baptist, cousin of Jesus, as a play-
mate of the holy child. Here are endless possihihlics
of story interest for a child's delight. An effective
contrast is made between the swarthy, skin-dad
Baptist and the fair-haired Christ-child. The sturdy
St. John is the most affectionate slave of his cousin,
bringing offerings of fruit and flowers or kneeling in
adoration. Raphael was particularly felicitous in this
subject, and examples are numerous also among his
contemporaries. Single ideal portraits of either of the
two boys are not very common, but are treasures
worth picking up when they are to be found. Andrea
del Sartos St. John Baptist, the boy, is an excep-
tional picture, and a great favorite. Murillo's so-
called Children of the Shell is a delicately conceived
subject of the relation between the two cousins. They
have been playing together with the lamb, when St.
John becomes thirsty, and the Christ-child offers him
to drink from a shell.
The several striking incidents of the infancy of

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