The Horn Book Guide

THE ARTS

d'Harcourt, Claire

Masterpieces Up Close: Western Painting from the 14th to 20th Centuries

64 pp. | Princeton Architectural Press | January, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-61689-414-6 $29.95

(3) 4-6 Kids can "take a fresh look" at twenty-one chronologically arranged masterpieces from Western art reproduced on large-format pages. For each painting, several zoomed-in details--from minute symbolism in Van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait to silk-screening techniques in Warhol's Marilyn series--are examined in call-out circles; interesting contextual information is given on following pages. The cleverly designed book includes appended lift-the-flap bios of each artist.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen