Umbrella Facts for Kids

An umbrella is a hand tool that is used to stop rain from falling on a person. It is also used to make shade and protect people from sunlight. An umbrella made for protection from the sunlight is called a parasol. And a plastic umbrella is cheap but it is fragile.

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An umbrella.
Painting of people with umbrellas.
A man sitting under beach parasol.
Painting of a woman with a parasol.
A modern umbrella
Relief of the Persian king Xerxes I (485-465 BC) at Persepolis
A Terracotta Army carriage with an umbrella securely fixed to the side, from Qin Shihuang's tomb, c. 210 BC
Etruscan drinking cup from Chiusi, Italy, 350-300 BC
Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, by Anthonis van Dyck, 1623
Parisians in the rain with umbrellas, by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1803)
A parasol depicted in Morning Walk, by John Singer Sargent (1888)
Collapsed umbrellas in a temple in Japan
Beach parasols in Selce, Croatia
Testing a Senz storm umbrella in Rotterdam, using a high-powered fan
Grand Procession of the Doge of Venice (16th century)
Ethiopian Orthodox clergymen lead a procession in celebration of Saint Michael. The priests carry ornately covered Tabota around the church's exterior, assisted by deacons holding liturgical umbrellas.
Utagawa Kunisada
A painting of Chancellor Pierre Séguier with a parasol hoisted above his head, by Charles Le Brun, 1670
Japanese girl jumps from Kiyomizu-dera, Suzuki Harunobu, 1750
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Umbrellas, 1883
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875
Woman with a parasol, by Édouard Manet, 1881
Colin Campbell Cooper, Summer, 1918
Victor Gabriel Gilbert, woman with Japanese parasol, 1933
Statue of George Palmer by George Blackall Simmonds, 1891
Contemporary Street Art in Port Louis, Mauritius
Shop decoration – Budapest, 2016

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