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Color Your Own Angels in Art Masterpieces (Dover Art Coloring Book)

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This is a super book.I use it for inspiration and mix it with ideas from other books.Its very good for the price.and its not a small book.in size or detail.Im really glad I bought it.B.W.

These are excellent blackline reproductions of fine artwork, great for colored pencil coloring. However, not all the images are as saintly as the cover picture. Some are nudes or near nudes, so this is perhaps not the book for some young children.

This I would say is more for adults, alot of detailed beautiful pictures, very well put together. I enjoy it because of the detail...

If you're a Christian or Catholic with a mind toward modesty, or even just one who favors "real" Christian angels... don't let the cover of this book deceive you. There is a LOT of "complete immodesty" in this book, to put it tastefully, and pagan gods and goddesses with wings are among the pictures in this book. It's not even all actual, or what you might call "real" angels (eg, the kind that dwell in heaven with Christ). There are only about... MAYBE three or four pictures in this book that I could, as a Catholic keep, let alone color. CERTAINLY do not give this book to your child.

Apparently the author makes no discretion in the light of the fact that when you say "angels" most people think Raphael, Gabriel and our good guardians. The author opted to include any mythological god or goddess too, so long as they have wings.

Deceptive title and rather tasteless collection to pitch to the "fans" of the genre (who are doubtlessly mostly Christians who will be offended by the all-encompassing mix found here... and their apparel... or lack thereof).

Of the famous Bouguereau's paintings, those rendered were some of the less modest... even non-Christian... when the best of his Christian works, like the Virgin Mary SURROUNDED by angels... was "conveniently" omitted.

An atheist might enjoy this book for the ironic if not sick joke on the Christians who buy it thinking it will be akin to it's cover, but Christ-loving and modest-minded Christians certainly won't. At least the Sistine Chapel is actually Christian in theme.