Introduction -- A good start -- Developing an interest in paintings -- Tips for successful visits -- What to show them, depending on their age -- 5-7 year-olds -- 8-10 - year olds -- 11-13-year olds -- It's ok not to know -- Paintings and museums -- Painters -- Painting in the twentieth century -- Religious art -- Portraits -- Mythology, history, and allegory -- Landscapes -- Scenes from everyday life and paintings of objects -- The price of a painting -- How to look at a picture -- The annunciation, Fra Angelico -- The Arnolfini portrait, Jan van Eyck -- St. George and the dragon, Paolo Uccello -- The birth of Venus, Botticelli -- The temptation of St. Anthony, Hieronymus Bosch -- The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci -- Landscape with St. Jerome, Joachim Patenier -- Portrait of Charles V at Mühlberg, Titian -- Winter landscape with a bird trap, Pieter Bruegel -- David with the head of Goliath, Caravaggio -- The cardsharp with the ace of clubs, Georges de La Tour -- Apollo and Marsyas, Jusepe de Ribera -- Still life with fruit and a lobster, Jan Davidsz de Heem -- The judgment of Solomon, Nicolas Poussin -- The love letter, Johannes Vermeer -- The Colossus, or Panic, Francisco de Goya -- The poor poet, Carl Spitzweg -- Rain, steam and speed - the great western railway, Joseph Mallord William Turner -- The luncheon, Claude Monet -- Women ironing, Edgar Degas -- The bedroom, Vincent van Gogh -- The birthday, Marc Chagall -- The mechanic, Fernand Leger -- Composition with red, yellow and blue, Piet Mondrian -- Weeping woman, Pablo Picasso -- Number 3, tiger, Jackson Pollock -- Untitled blue monochrome, Yves Klein -- The king of the Zulus, Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne standing in a street in Soho, Francis Bacon -- The girls from Olmo II, Georg Baselitz -- Photographic credits.