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Title

Brilliant beginnings : the youthful works of great artists, writers, and composers / Roselyne de Ayala and Jean-Pierre Guéno ; translated from the French by John Goodman.

Author

Ayala, Roselyne de.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Guéno, Jean-Pierre.

Description

231 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), music; 32 cm.

Uniform Title

Enfance de l'art. English

Alternative Title

Enfance de l'art.

Subject

• Child artists
• Young artists
• Creative ability in children
• Creative ability in adolescence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-223) and index.

Contents

• Pol and Jean de Limbourg: The Bible of the Duke of Burgundy -- Albrecht Durer: Durer's First Self-Portrait -- Michelangelo Buonarroti, known as Michelangelo: Early Sculpture -- Young Members of the Catholic League of Paris: A Gift for Cardinal Gaetani -- Louis XIII: A Latin Poem by a Young King -- Anthony Van Dyck: Portraits by the Young Van Dyck -- Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy, called the Grand Dauphin: Writing History -- Philibert Commerson: The Herbal of Philibert Commerson -- Maria Antonia Josepha of Lorraine, later Queen Marie-Antoinette of France: "Madame my very dear Mother" -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "God Is Our Refuge" -- Elisabeth Vigee, known as Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun: A Group of Early Portraits -- Germaine Necker, later Madame de Stael: The Education of Minette -- Georges Cuvier: Cuvier's Plants -- Andre Marie Ampere: A Treatise on Conical Sections -- Jane Austen: "The History of England" -- Joseph Mallord William Turner: Early Watercolors --^
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: A Preview of a Great Talent -- Henri Beyle, known as Stendhal: Henri's Advice -- Honore de Balzac: "My Dear Mama" -- Franz Schubert: The Young Composer -- Aurore Dupin, Known as George Sand: "George Sand's" First Letter -- Alfred de Vigny: Youthful Drawings -- Eugene Delacroix: Eugene's Notebooks -- Jules Michelet: A Mother's Death -- Victor Hugo: Hugo's Notebooks -- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Mendelssohn's Good Fortune -- Theophile Gautier: Early Works -- Franz Liszt: "A New Mozart" -- Gerard Labrunie, known as Gerard de Nerval: "National Elegies" -- Alfred de Musset: Love and Poetry -- Charlotte Bronte: "The Search for Happiness" -- Henri of Orleans, Duke of Aumale: Duty and Tradition -- Gustave Flaubert: Flaubert's Passion -- Charles Baudelaire: A Letter to his Brother -- Theodore Chasseriau: "The Napoleon of Painting" -- Jules Verne: A Letter from the Young Jules Verne -- Ernest Renan: A Young Seminarian Loses his Vocation --^
• Louis Pasteur: A Plea for Advice -- Maurice Dudevant, known as Maurice Sand: "Fresh as an Apple" -- Gustave Moreau: Moreau's Landscapes -- Camille Saint-Saens: An Andante at Five and a Half -- Gustave Dore: Illustrated Stories -- Georges Bizet: Early Compositions -- Auguste Rodin: Early Figures -- Stephane Mallarme: "What the Three Storks Said" -- Claude Monet: Oscar's Caricatures -- Arthur Rimbaud: Rimbaud's Ambition -- Julien Viaud, known as Pierre Loti: The Mysteries of the Orient -- Eugene-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, known as the Prince Imperial: A Letter to Lavisse -- Marie Bashkirtseff: A Young Aristocrat -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Early Works -- Georges Seurat: Stylistic Exercises -- Camille Claudel: A Prodigy in Sculpture -- Suzanne Valadon: Marie's Rebellion -- Marcel Proust: Proust's School Compesitions -- Henri Barbusse: A Young Diarist -- Anna de Brancovan, later Mme. de Noailles: Like the Leaves of a Clover --^
• Therese Martin, later Saint Theresa of the Infant Jesus: "To Sister Agnes of Jesus" -- Guillaume Lekeu: A Prodigy of the Franck Group -- Pierre Louis, known as Pierre Louys: Comic Sketches -- Pablo Picasso: Drawings of Children -- Wilhelm de Kostrowitzky, known as Guillaume Apollinaire: First Poems -- Jean Cocteau: "Dear Mama" -- Francois Mauriac: "Go Away!" -- Egon Schiele: Early Works -- Jacques Henri Lartigue: "I Juggled with a Brush and a Lens" -- Jean Giono: A Letter to His Parents -- Joan Miro: A Catalan Turtle -- Henri Alban Fournier, known as Alain-Fournier: "This Mean and Shallow Life" -- Louis Aragon: "What a Divine Soul!" -- Henry de Montherlant: First Poems -- Eugene Grindel, known as Paul Eluard: Eluard's First Story -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "I Made Myself a Fountain Pen" -- Primo Conti: A Child of Genius -- Marcel Achard: Comedies, Tragedies -- Francoise Marette, the future Francoise Dolto: An Intense Love -- Yves Congar: Wartime Diary --^
• Jean Moulin: An Unassuming Hero -- Raymond Radiguet: "The Awkward Age" -- Benjamin Britten: "The Royal Falily" -- Salvador Dali: Painting Against the Grain -- Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus: Balthasar's Cat -- Henri Cartier-Bresson: "Drawing is Meditative" -- Anne Frank: In Hiding -- App. Complete Transcriptions of Selected Texts.

ISBN

0810941171

LCCN

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OCLC

43913178

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library