The Annunciation, and myth of Vertumnus and Pomona, a tale from Roman history, a favourite fable, stories of schools and a concert of the birds.
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The greatest painter of children, school and childhood in the European canon. Paintings from ‘Les Miserables’ to the classrooms of the Third Republic.
Led by progressive administrations in the French Republic and Scotland, secular classes improved discipline and improved their pupils.
Chaos in the barren classrooms of the 1600s gradually restored to order over the following two centuries as boys and girls learned to read and write.
One of very few artists who specialised in painting children’s social interactions in school. Fascinating insights into childhood and society at the time.
Dramatic changes in the classrooms of the late 19th century, as education became politicised and paintings resembled photos.
Chaos and physical punishment in the schoolrooms of the 17th and 18th centuries gave way to improvements in the 19th.
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