DOMESDAY BOOK 



1836 



DOMESTIC ART 



This canvas now occupies a place in the Vati- 

 can, opposite Raphael's Transfiguration. While 

 in Rome he also produced several fresco paint- 

 ing of religious and mythological subjects. 

 Between 1617 and 1621 he lived in Bologna, 

 the most important production of this period 

 being his Modanna of the Rosary. 



In 1621 Pope Gregory XV recalled him to 

 Rome to become chief painter and architect of 

 the Papal palace, and ten years later he was 

 commissioned to decorate with frescoes a 

 chapel of the cathedral at Naples. The best 

 works painted during his second visit to Rome 

 are the Four Evangelists and a charming 

 mythological picture, Diana and Her Nymphs 

 Bathing. Domenichino excelled in landscape 

 and fresco painting, using landscape effectively 

 as a background, and he has been highly 

 praised for the naturalness of his scenery and 

 for the lifelikeness of his human figures. 



DOMES 'DAY BOOK, or DOOMS 'DAY 

 BOOK, one of the most interesting historical 

 volumes in existence. When William of Nor- 

 mandy conquered England in 1066, he re- 

 warded his followers by giving them land 



DOMESDAY BOOK AND CHEST 

 There are two large volumes of the survey, one 

 being a folio of 760 pages, the other a larger 

 octavo of 900 pages. The strong box shown in 

 the illustration is the chest in which the volumes 

 were once kept. 



The picture above is from a drawing made 

 from a facsimile edition published by command 

 of Queen Victoria in 1862. 



which had previously belonged to the con- 

 quered people. Wishing to know how the 

 country was peopled, how much land belonged 

 to the king himself, and how the rest of the 

 land was partitioned, he caused a survey to 

 be made. Each landowner or holder was re- 

 quested to give to the king's commissioners 

 full particulars concerning the land he owned 

 or held and of property of every kind he pos- 

 sessed. 



The country was divided into districts, each 

 district furnishing as census-takers, so to speak, 

 a certain number of men familiar with the 



disposition of land and property, to assist the 

 king's commissioners. The result was a com- 

 plete return of all details concerning land and 

 property in that part of England controlled 

 by William. His authority did not extend 

 far enough north to include Northumberland, 

 Cumberland, Durham or Westmoreland. All 

 information gathered, in some instances even 

 to the number of sheep and swine, was pub- 

 lished in the Domesday Book, against the rec- 

 ord of which there was no possibility of ap- 

 peal. There are many families in England 

 who find cause for pride in the fact that their 

 family name appears in the Domesday Book 

 among those of landowners. Perfect facsim- 

 iles of the original Domesday Book were pub- 

 lished in 1861 and 1865. See WILLIAM I, THE 

 CONQUEROR. 



DOMESTIC, domes'tik, ART. Grand- 

 mother has told you many stories about the 

 good old days when she was a little girl. 









Fig.1 



Grandmother's mother was a fine, old-fash- 

 ioned woman, who thought that little girls 

 should be taught to cook, to sew, to knit, and 

 to do everything that is necessary to be done 

 about a house. The schools where Grand- 

 mother and her little friends learned to "read, 

 write and cipher" had no classes in sewing or 

 cooking, for mothers were expected to teach 

 these subjects to their daughters at home. 



You have heard of the long seams that had 

 to be sewed, of the patch-work blocks that 

 had to be finished before the little girl whose 

 name is now Grandmother could go out to 

 play. Perhaps, when you listened to these 

 stories, you felt sorry for the children of long 

 ago, whose mothers insisted that lessons in 

 sewing and knitting and other forms of hand 



work must be learned and learned well. But 

 people have grown to think that such training 

 is most important, and that it can be made 

 very interesting. 



