Amy Steedman published the Knights of Art: Stories of the
Italian Painters in 1907. The author was a British author of books for children, often on religious
subjects (Saints), but also about literature (Dickens) and art (Italian
Artists).
Self-Portrait Leonardo Da Vinci
While the book was originally written with young adults in mind,
the beautifully written Lives are entertaining for older adult readers, too.
Michelangelo Self-Portrait
Amy Steedman wrote at a time when there was no state
sponsored schooling in Britain, so her books were often used as texts for home-
schooled children and at private academies.
Rafael Self-Portrait
Visit my Amy Steedman page at
Italophiles.com (Candida Martinelli's Italophile Site), my Italian culture
site, to access direct links to the artist bios illustrated with images of that
artist's works.
You can download a free e-book of Knights of Art from
Project Gutenberg, the grand-daddy of free e-book websites.
But the best option is the edition you can download for free from the Internet Archive as a pdf e-book of the original publication.
Here is a sampling of Amy Steedman paperback books and e-books available
at Amazon.com.
This review is by Candida Martinelli, of Candida Martinelli's Italophile Site, and the author of the cozy-murder-mystery novel AN EXTRA VIRGIN PRESSING MURDER, and the young-adult/adult mystery novel series THE VIOLET STRANGE MYSTERIES the first book of which is VIOLET'S PROBLEM.
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