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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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panel by the old Venetian painter Cima, in the Parma
Gallery, and a lunette by Walker in the Congressional
Library, both showing the youth asleep. As Diana
is attended by nymphs, so Apollo, as patron of the
arts, is surrounded by the nine muses. Thus we see
them all circling around in a rhythmic dance in the
picture by Giulio Romano, in the Pitti, Florence.
Another picture of these figures may be had by isolat-
ing the central group in Raphael's famous fresco of
Parnassus. Apollos pursuit of Daphne is a subject
painted by Giorgione (Seminario, Venice), but the
figures are rather inconspicuous in a landscape. A
graceful group by the late Italian sculptor Bernini is
in the Borghese, at Rome.
The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne is not an
especially important incident in mythology, but it
happens to be the subject of one of the finest works
of the Venetian Renaissance. The picture is by
Tintoretto, in the Venice Academy. Venus hovering
in the air joins the hands of the lovers and marries
them with a ring. Grace and poetry of motion, flow
Text Appearing After Image:
Alinari, photo. John Andrew & Son sc.

DIANA

Convent of S. Paolo, Parma

USE OF PICTURES IN THE SCHOOLROOM 75

of line, beauty of modeling, and harmony of color
could hardly go farther, and the pure joy of living,
which is the essence of the Greek spirit, is perfectly
expressed here. Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne in the
National Gallery, is also a celebrated and beautiful
picture, showing the young god leaping from his
chariot drawn by leopards, as he first sees Ariadne.
Watts's Ariadne in Naxos (Metropolitan Museum) is
a noble picture full of dignity and expression. The
Birth of Venus from the Sea is a subject too often
emphasized on the sensuous side, but Botticelli's
famous and beautiful picture (Florence Academy)
expresses the essential poetry of the myth. The god-
dess floats on a seashell towards the shore where she
is welcomed by the Graces.
A mythical hero endeared to us in Hawthorne's
Wonder Book is the gallant Perseus, who set forth to
secure the Medusas head and ended by the rescue of
Andromeda. He was equipped for the adventure, as

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