Visual Arts Chapters

What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).

Illustrations help make learning law, and verifying legal statues, less tedious.

William Makepeace Thackeray illustrates his own book; see a sampling of those pictures.

Dore, an artist from France, creates seventy-five images of Dante's Purgatory.

Near the end of his life, wants forgiveness for his wrongdoings and is re-christened as a monk before he dies at age 54.

The complimentary colors and simple strokes of Japanese woodblock prints influence many Van Gogh paintings.

Hines' photographs allow us to travel back in time to view images of children working in canneries.

Hines photographs young children working in adult jobs in mills.

Lewis Hines takes pictures of children working in dangerous American mines.

Lewis' books help his readers "aim for heaven" and increase their quality of life of earth.

Jenny on the Job is the female counterpart to Joe Dope; she is a model production worker.

Jesus appears to several people after his death, according to the New Testament.

Herod questions Jesus, demanding a miracle, but sends him back without a sentence.

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