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4 novembre 2018

Les Contes de Perrault

Charles Perrault wrote some of the most popular fairy tales ever. He was not the original author of Little Red Riding Hodd or The Sleeping Beauty or The Puss in Boots, but it is still more important than ever. than three centuries after Perrault's The...

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11 septembre 2018

The story of the three bears by Leonard Leslie Brooke

Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was one of the leading illustrators at the beginning of 20th century. On one occassion critics commented on his works as showing the spirit of childhood with rare skill and the book about the Goldilocks intruding the...

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27 août 2018

Cymon and Iphigenia: The Story and the Paintings

The story about Cymon and Iphigenia inspired numerous paintings among which Frederik Leighton's gots most attention. We'll present the story by a summary, offer two classic versions by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) and John Dryden (1631-1700), analyze...

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9 avril 2018

The Beauty and the Beast, Picture Book by William H. Thwaites

Noted William H. Thwaites, a talented American painter, illustrator, and engraver, one of the founding members of the American Society of Painters in Watercolor in 1866. We know that he, among other projects, worked on several books for Hewet's illuminated...

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23 mars 2018

Richard Andre and Puss in Boots

Richard Andre was a pseudonym and it was not the only one used by William Roger Snow. He was a prolific illustrator of books for children and pretty prosperous businessman whose life was full of ups and downs, yet never predictable or even boring. William...

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13 février 2018

The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights

This classic Russian fairy tale starts with a king leaving the castle with a queen waiting for him. She waits for nine months until she gives a birth to a beautiful daughter right when the king returns home. The same day the queen dies. After one year...

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15 janvier 2018

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, illustrated by John Liston Byam Shaw

This book is one of the many editions of Tales from Shakespeare, written by Charles and Mary Lamb and first published in 1807 by John Goldwin in his Juvenile Library collection. The presented edition was produced by John Byam Shaw and was published in...

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