{"title":"Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscover the best-selling art books and insightful artist biographies at our online bookstore, featuring a curated selection of must-read books about art and artwork. 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Before we knew\r\nhow to read, before even we could speak, we had learned to love them.\r\nWe shouted with pleasure when we turned the pages and saw the spotted\r\ncow standing in the daisy-sprinkled meadow, the foolish-looking old\r\nsheep with her gambolling lambs, the wise dog with his friendly eyes.\r\nThey were all real friends to us.\r\n\n\r\nThen a little later on, when we began to ask for stories about the\r\npictures, how we loved them more and more. There was the little girl in\r\nthe red cloak talking to the great grey wolf with the wicked eyes; the\r\ncottage with the bright pink roses climbing round the lattice-window,\r\nout of which jumped a little maid with golden hair, followed by the\r\ngreat big bear, the middle-sized bear, and the tiny bear. Truly those\r\nstories were a great joy to us, but we would never have loved them\r\nquite so much if we had not known their pictured faces as well.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 529 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Steedman, Amy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Steedman, Amy \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211141972125,"sku":"gb-529-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/529_1d61bdc4-324e-4631-99d4-1921a9ef8ef2.jpg?v=1671248293"},{"product_id":"seven-discourses-on-art-gb-2176","title":"Seven Discourses on Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeven Discourses on Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a happy memory that associates the foundation of our Royal\nAcademy with the delivery of these inaugural discourses by Sir Joshua\nReynolds, on the opening of the schools, and at the first annual meetings\nfor the distribution of its prizes. They laid down principles\nof art from the point of view of a man of genius who had made his power\nfelt, and with the clear good sense which is the foundation of all work\nthat looks upward and may hope to live. The truths here expressed\nconcerning Art may, with slight adjustment of the way of thought, be\napplied to Literature or to any exercise of the best powers of mind\nfor shaping the delights that raise us to the larger sense of life.\nIn his separation of the utterance of whole truths from insistance upon\naccidents of detail, Reynolds was right, because he guarded the expression\nof his view with careful definitions of its limits. In the same\nway Boileau was right, as a critic of Literature, in demanding everywhere\ngood sense, in condemning the paste brilliants of a style then in decay,\nand fixing attention upon the masterly simplicity of Roman poets in\nthe time of Augustus. Critics by rule of thumb reduced the principles\nclearly defined by Boileau to a dull convention, against which there\ncame in course of time a strong reaction. In like manner the teaching\nof Reynolds was applied by dull men to much vague and conventional generalisation\nin the name of dignity. Nevertheless, Reynolds taught essential\ntruths of Art. The principles laid down by him will never fail\nto give strength to the right artist, or true guidance towards the appreciation\nof good art, though here and there we may not wholly assent to some\npassing application of them, where the difference may be great between\na fashion of thought in his time and in ours. A righteous enforcement\nof exact truth in our day has led many into a readiness to appreciate\nmore really the minute imitation of a satin dress, or a red herring,\nthan the noblest figure in the best of Raffaelles cartoons.\nMuch good should come of the diffusion of this wise little book.\nJoshua Reynolds was born on the 15th of July, 1723, the son of a\nclergyman and schoolmaster, at Plympton in Devonshire. His bent\nfor Art was clear and strong from his childhood. In 1741 at the\nage of nineteen, he began study, and studied for two yours in London\nunder Thomas Hudson, a successful portrait painter. Then he went\nback to Devonshire and painted portraits, aided for some time in his\neducation by attention to the work of William Gandy of Exeter.\nWhen twenty-six years old, in May, 1749, Reynolds was taken away by\nCaptain Keppel to the Mediterranean, and brought into contact with the\nworks of the great painters of Italy. He stayed two years in Rome,\nand in accordance with the principles afterwards laid down in these\nlectures, he refused, when in Rome, commissions for copying, and gave\nhis mind to minute observation of the art of the great masters by whose\nworks he was surrounded. He spent two months in Florence, six\nweeks in Venice, a few days in Bologna and Parma. If,\nhe said, I had never seen any of the fine works of Correggio,\nI should never, perhaps, have remarked in Nature the expression which\nI find in one of his pieces; or if I had remarked it, I might have thought\nit too difficult, or perhaps impossible to execute.\nIn 1753 Reynolds came back to England, and stayed three months in\nDevonshire before setting up a studio in London, in St. Martins\nLane, which was then an artists quarter. His success was\nrapid. In 1755 he had one hundred and twenty-five sitters.\nSamuel Johnson found in him his most congenial friend. He moved\nto Newport Street, and he built himself a studiowhere there is\nnow an auction roomat 47, Lincolns Inn Fields. There\nhe remained for life.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2176 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Reynolds, Joshua \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2000 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Reynolds, Joshua \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212236488861,"sku":"gb-2176-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2176_62b8d97f-2b9b-4665-9e73-d32279fb81f8.jpg?v=1671252653"},{"product_id":"studies-and-essays-censorship-and-art-gb-2901","title":"Studies and Essays: Censorship and Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStudies and Essays: Censorship and Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free\r\ninstitutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider\r\nthe only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the Censorship of\r\nPlays, a bulwark for the preservation of their comfort and sensibility\r\nagainst the spiritual researches and speculations of bolder and too\r\nactive spiritsit has become time to consider whether we should not\r\nseriously extend a principle, so grateful to the majority, to all our\r\ninstitutions.\nFor no one can deny that in practice the Censorship of Drama works with a\r\nsmooth swiftnessa lack of delay and friction unexampled in any public\r\noffice.  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So we will stick to our word, which\nmeans a change of the basis of society; it may frighten people,\nbut it will at least warn them that there is something to be\nfrightened about, which will be no less dangerous for being\nignored; and also it may encourage some people, and will mean to\nthem at least not a fear, but a hope.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3053 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Morris, William \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 1, 2002 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Morris, William,1834-1896 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212322373789,"sku":"gb-3053-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3053_6f7a9c1b-f1bf-4792-a2f6-3422a2ad8a13.jpg?v=1671254914"},{"product_id":"hopes-and-fears-for-art-gb-3773","title":"Hopes and Fears for Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHopes and Fears for Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHereafter I hope in another lecture\nto have the pleasure of laying before you an historical survey of\nthe lesser, or as they are called the Decorative Arts, and I must\nconfess it would have been pleasanter to me to have begun my talk\nwith you by entering at once upon the subject of the history of\nthis great industry; but, as I have something to say in a third\nlecture about various matters connected with the practice of\nDecoration among ourselves in these days, I feel that I should be\nin a false position before you, and one that might lead to\nconfusion, or overmuch explanation, if I did not let you know\nwhat I think on the nature and scope of these arts, on their\ncondition at the present time, and their outlook in times to\ncome. In doing this it is like enough that I shall say\nthings with which you will very much disagree; I must ask you\ntherefore from the outset to believe that whatever I may blame or\nwhatever I may praise, I neither, when I think of what history\nhas been, am inclined to lament the past, to despise the present,\nor despair of the future; that I believe all the change and stir\nabout us is a sign of the worlds life, and that it will\nleadby ways, indeed, of which we have no guessto\nthe bettering of all mankind.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 3773 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Morris, William \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Morris, William,1834-1896 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212375654557,"sku":"gb-3773-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/3773_f7d4586c-9765-444a-a678-84c87ec196bd.jpg?v=1671256740"},{"product_id":"greek-studies-a-series-of-essays-gb-4035","title":"Greek Studies: a Series of Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreek Studies: a Series of Essays\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1] THE present volume consists of a collection of essays by the\r\nlate Mr. Pater, all of which have already been given to the public in\r\nvarious Magazines; and it is owing to the kindness of the several\r\nproprietors of those Magazines that they can now be brought together\r\nin a collected shape.  It will, it is believed, be felt, that their\r\nvalue is considerably enhanced by their appearance in a single\r\nvolume, where they can throw light upon one another, and exhibit by\r\ntheir connexion a more complete view of the scope and purpose of Mr.\r\nPater in dealing with the art and literature of the ancient world.\nThe essays fall into two distinct groups, one dealing with the\r\nsubjects of Greek mythology and Greek poetry, the other with the\r\nhistory of Greek sculpture and Greek architecture.  But these two\r\ngroups are not wholly distinct; they mutually illustrate one another,\r\nand serve to enforce Mr. Pater's conception of the essential [2]\r\nunity, in all its many-sidedness, of the Greek character.  The god\r\nunderstood as the \"spiritual form\" of the things of nature is not\r\nonly the key-note of the \"Study of Dionysus\"* and \"The Myth of\r\nDemeter and Persephone,\"* but reappears as contributing to the\r\ninterpretation of the growth of Greek sculpture.*  Thus, though in\r\nthe bibliography of his writings, the two groups are separated by a\r\nconsiderable interval, there is no change of view; he had already\r\nreached the centre of the problem, and, the secret once gained, his\r\nmode of treatment of the different aspects of Greek life and thought\r\nis permanent and consistent.\nThe essay on \"The Myth of Demeter and Persephone\" was originally\r\nprepared as two lectures, for delivery, in 1875, at the Birmingham\r\nand Midland Institute.  These lectures were published in the\r\nFortnightly Review, in Jan. and Feb. 1876.  The \"Study of Dionysus\"\r\nappeared in the same Review in Dec. 1876.  \"The Bacchanals of\r\nEuripides\" must have been written about the same time, as a sequel to\r\nthe \"Study of Dionysus\"; for, in 1878, Mr. Pater revised the four\r\nessays, with the intention, apparently, of publishing them\r\ncollectively in a volume, an intention afterwards abandoned. [3] The\r\ntext now printed has, except that of \"The Bacchanals,\" been taken\r\nfrom proofs then set up, further corrected in manuscript.  \"The\r\nBacchanals,\" written long before, was not published until 1889, when\r\nit appeared in Macmillan's Magazine for May.  It was reprinted,\r\nwithout alteration, prefixed to Dr. Tyrrell's edition of the Bacchae.\r\n\"Hippolytus Veiled\" first appeared in August 1889, in Macmillan's\r\nMagazine.  It was afterwards rewritten, but with only a few\r\nsubstantial alterations, in Mr. Pater's own hand, with a view,\r\nprobably, of republishing it with other essays.  This last revise has\r\nbeen followed in the text now printed.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4035 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Pater, Walter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Pater, Walter,1839-1894 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212391547037,"sku":"gb-4035-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/4035_464ec252-7855-42a0-b798-ae1ab496e434.jpg?v=1671257410"},{"product_id":"ex-voto-an-account-of-the-sacro-monte-or-new-jerusalem-at-varallo-sesia-gb-4073","title":"Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEx Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia\r - With Some Notice of Tabachetti's Remaining Work at the Sanctuary of Crea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the preface to Alps and\nSanctuaries I apologised for passing over Varallo-Sesia,\nthe most important of North Italian sanctuaries, on the ground\nthat it required a book to itself. This book I will now\nendeavour to supply, though well aware that I can only\nimperfectly and unworthily do so. To treat the subject in\nthe detail it merits would be a task beyond my opportunities;\nfor, in spite of every endeavour, I have not been able to see\nseveral works and documents, without which it is useless to try\nand unravel the earlier history of the sanctuary. The book\nby Caccia, for example, published by Sessali at Novara in 1565,\nand reprinted at Brescia in 1576, is sure to turn up some day,\nbut I have failed to find it at Varallo, Novara (where it appears\nin the catalogue, but not on the shelves), Milan, the Louvre, the\nBritish Museum, and the Bodleian Library. Through the\nkindness of Sac. Ant. Ceriani, I was able to learn that the\nBiblioteca Ambrosiana possessed what there can be little doubt is\na later edition of this book, dated 1587, but really published at\nthe end of 1586, and another dated 1591, to which Signor Galloni\nin his Uomini e fatti celebri di Valle-Sesia (p.\n110) has called attention as the first work ever printed at\nVarallo. But the last eight of the twenty-one years between\n1565 and 1586 were eventful, and much could be at once seen by a\ncomparison of the 1565, 1576, and 1586 [1587] editions, about\nwhich speculation is a waste of time while the earlier works are\nwanting. I have been able to gather two or three\ninteresting facts by a comparison of the 1586 and 1591 editions,\nand do not doubt that the date, for example, of\nTabachettis advent to Varallo and of his great Calvary\nChapel would be settled within a very few years if the missing\nbooks were available.\nAnother document which I have in vain tried to see is the plan\nof the Sacro Monte as it stood towards the close of the sixteenth\ncentury, made by Pellegrino Tibaldi with a view to his own\nproposed alterations. He who is fortunate enough to gain\naccess to this planwhich I saw for a few minutes in 1884,\nbut which is now no longer at Varallowill find a great\ndeal made clear to him which he will otherwise be hardly able to\nfind out. Over and above the foregoing, there is the\ninventory drawn up by order of Giambattista Albertino in 1614,\nand a number of other documents, to which reference will be found\nin the pages of Bordiga, Galloni, Tonetti, and of the many others\nwho have written upon the Val Sesia and its history. A\ntwelve months stay in the Val Sesia would not suffice to\ndo justice to all the interesting and important questions which\narise wholesale as soon as the chapels on the Sacro Monte are\nexamined with any care. I shall confine myself, therefore,\nto a consideration of the most remarkable features of the Sacro\nMonte as it exists at present, and to doing what I can to\nstimulate further study on the part of others.\nI cannot understand how a field so interesting, and containing\ntreasures in so many respects unrivalled, can have remained\nalmost wholly untilled by the numerous English lovers of art who\nyearly flock to Italy; but the fact is one on which I may perhaps\nbe congratulated, inasmuch as more shortcomings and errors of\njudgment may be forgiven in my own book, in virtue of its being\nthe first to bring Varallo with any prominence before English\nreaders. That little is known about the Sacro Monte, even\nby the latest and best reputed authorities on art, may be seen by\nturning to Sir Henry Layards recent edition of\nKuglers Handbook of Painting,a work\nwhich our leading journals of culture have received with\nacclamation. Sir Henry Layard has evidently either never\nbeen at Varallo, or has so completely forgotten what he saw there\nthat his visit no longer counts. He thinks, for example,\nthat the chapels, or, as he also calls them,\nstations (which in itself should show that he has\nnot seen them), are on the way up to the Sacro Monte, whereas all\nthat need be considered are on the top. He thinks that the\nstatues generally in these supposed chapels on the ascent\nof the Sacro Monte are attributed to Gaudenzio Ferrari,\nwhereas it is only in two or three out of some five-and-forty\nthat any statues are believed to be by Gaudenzio. He thinks\nthe famous sculptor Tabachettifor famous he is in North\nItaly, where he is knownwas a painter, and speaks of him\nas a local imitator of Gaudenzio, who\ndecorated other chapels, and whose works\nonly show how rapidly Gaudenzios influence declined and\nhis school deteriorated. As a matter of fact,\nTabachetti was a Fleming and his name was Tabaquet; but this is a\ndetail. Sir Henry Layard thinks that Miel was\nalso a local imitator of Gaudenzio. It is not\nlikely that this painter ever worked on the Sacro Monte at all;\nbut if he did, Sir Henry Layard should surely know that he came\nfrom Antwerp. Sir Henry Layard does not appear to know that\nthere are any figures in the Crucifixion Chapel of Gaudenzio, or\nindeed in any of the chapels for which Gaudenzio painted\nfrescoes, and falls into a trap which seems almost laid on\npurpose for those who would write about Varallo without having\nbeen there, in supposing that Gaudenzio painted a Piet on\nthe Sacro Monte. Having thus displayed the ripeness of his\nknowledge as regards facts, he says that though the chapels\non the ascent of the Sacro Monte are objects\nof wonder and admiration to the innumerable pilgrims who frequent\nthis sacred spot, yet the bad taste of the colour\nand clothing make them highly repugnant to a cultivated\neye.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4073 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Butler, Samuel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Butler, Samuel,1835-1902 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212395249821,"sku":"gb-4073-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/4073_702d50fe-1456-460e-bacd-4ccd208e1361.jpg?v=1671277247"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-greek-art-gb-4390","title":"A History of Greek Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA History of Greek Art\r - With an Introductory Chapter on Art in Egypt and Mesopotamia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe art of any artistically gifted people may be studied with\r\nvarious purposes and in various ways. 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Do not change or edit it without written permission.\r\nThe words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information\r\nneeded to understand what they may and may not do with the eBook.\r\nTo encourage this, we have moved most of the information to the end,\r\nrather than having it all here at the beginning.\nThe \"legal small print\" and other information about this book\r\nmay now be found at the end of this file.  Please read this\r\nimportant information, as it gives you specific rights and\r\ntells you about restrictions in how the file may be used.\nIntroduction - An Historical Review. The Function of Art.\r\n\r\nRetrospective Art\r\n\r\nThe Foreign Nations\r\n\r\n- France\r\n\r\n- Italy\r\n\r\n- Portugal\r\n\r\n- Argentina\r\n\r\n- Uruguay\r\n\r\n- Cuba\r\n\r\n- Philippine Islands\r\n\r\n- The Orient\r\n\r\n- Japan\r\n\r\n- China\r\n\r\n- Sweden\r\n\r\n- Holland\r\n\r\n- Germany\r\n\r\nThe United States\r\n\r\n- One-Man Rooms\r\n\r\n- Whistler\r\n\r\n- Twachtman\r\n\r\n- Tarbell\r\n\r\n- Redfield\r\n\r\n- Duveneck\r\n\r\n- Chase\r\n\r\n- Hassam\r\n\r\n- Gari Melchers\r\n\r\n- Sargent\r\n\r\n- Keith\r\n\r\n- Mathews and McComas\r\n\r\n- General Collection\r\n\r\nThe Graphic Arts - Conclusion\r\n\r\nAppendix\r\n\r\nBibliography - A list of helpful reference books and periodicals for the\r\n\r\nstudent and lover of art.\r\n\r\nIndex to Galleries\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4672 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Neuhaus, Eugen \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Neuhaus, Eugen,1879-1963 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212443123869,"sku":"gb-4672-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/4672_9b888db5-f3bd-493e-b908-b077dabad5ca.jpg?v=1671278593"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-exposition-gb-5771","title":"The Art of the Exposition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art of the Exposition\r - Personal Impressions of the Architecture, Sculpture, Mural Decorations, Color Scheme \u0026amp; Other Aesthetic Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nTitle: The Art of the Exposition\nSubtitle: Personal Impressions of the Architecture, Sculpture, Mural Decorations, Color Scheme \u0026amp; Other Aesthetic Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition\nAuthor: Eugen Neuhaus\nRelease Date: May 1, 2004 [EBook #5771]\nLanguage: English\n\n\n         You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of\n        any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the\n        electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of\n        receipt of the work.\n    \n\n1.F.3. 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On this day, of this month, the 20th of October, six hundred and\r\n      twenty-three years ago, the merchants and tradesmen of Florence met before\r\n      the church of Santa Croce; marched through the city to the palace of their\r\n      Podesta; deposed their Podesta; set over themselves, in his place, a\r\n      knight belonging to an inferior city; called him \"Captain of the People;\"\r\n      appointed under him a Signory of twelve Ancients chosen from among\r\n      themselves; hung a bell for him on the tower of the Lion, that he might\r\n      ring it at need, and gave him the flag of Florence to bear, half white,\r\n      and half red.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 8523 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Ruskin, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Ruskin, John,1819-1900 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215521513629,"sku":"gb-8523-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/8523.jpg?v=1671292077"},{"product_id":"earthwork-out-of-tuscany-being-impressions-and-translations-of-maurice-hewlett-gb-8858","title":"Earthwork out of Tuscany: Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarthwork out of Tuscany: Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled\r\nwith water is pleasant and delighteth the taste: even so speech, finely\r\nframed, delighteth the ears of them that read the story.\"3 MACCABEES xv.\r\n39.\nI cannot add one tendril to your bays,\r\n\r\nWorn quietly where who love you sing your praise;\r\n\r\nBut I may stand\r\n\r\nAmong the household throng with lifted hand,\r\n\r\nUpholding for sweet honour of the land\r\n\r\nYour crown of days.\n\nI cannot be for ever explaining what I intended when I wrote this book.\r\nUpon this, its third appearance, even though it is to rank in that good\r\ncompany which wears the crimson of Eversley, it must take its chance,\r\nundefended by its conscious parent. 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I did not at the outset expect a third edition in any livery;\r\nI may still fear a wreck for this cockboat of my early invention; but I\r\nhope I am too respectful of myself to try throwing oil upon the waters.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 8858 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hewlett, Maurice \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hewlett, Maurice,1861-1923 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215551004829,"sku":"gb-8858-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/8858.jpg?v=1671293440"},{"product_id":"a-wanderer-in-florence-gb-10769","title":"A Wanderer in Florence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Wanderer in Florence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sentence from a \"Synthetical Guidebook\" which is circulated in the\r\nFlorentine hotels will express what I want to say, at the threshold\r\nof this volume, much better than could unaided words of mine. It runs\r\nthus: \"The natural kindness, the high spirit, of the Florentine people,\r\nthe wonderful masterpieces of art created by her great men, who in\r\nevery age have stood in the front of art and science, rivalize with\r\nthe gentle smile of her splendid sky to render Florence one of the\r\nfinest towns of beautiful Italy\". These words, written, I feel sure,\r\nby a Florentine, and therefore \"inspirated\" (as he says elsewhere) by\r\na patriotic feeling, are true; and it is my hope that the pages that\r\nfollow will at once fortify their truth and lead others to test it.\nLike the synthetical author, I too have not thought it necessary\r\nto provide \"too many informations concerning art and history,\" but\r\nthere will be found a few, practically unavoidable, in the gathering\r\ntogether of which I have been indebted to many authors: notably Vasari,\r\nSymonds, Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Ruskin, Pater, and Baedeker. Among\r\nmore recent books I would mention Herr Bode's \"Florentine Sculptors of\r\nthe Renaissance,\" Mr. F.M. Hyett's \"Florence,\" Mr. E.L.S. Horsburgh's\r\n\"Lorenzo the Magnificent\" and \"Savonarola,\" Mr. Gerald S. Davies'\r\n\"Michelangelo,\" Mr. W.G. Waters' \"Italian Sculptors,\" and Col. Young's\r\n\"The Medici\".\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 10769 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall),1868-1938 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43216239460509,"sku":"gb-10769-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/10769.jpg?v=1671341030"},{"product_id":"l-archeologie-egyptienne-gb-10841","title":"L'archeologie egyptienne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eL'archéologie égyptienne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nTitle: L'archologie gyptienne\nAuthor: G. Maspero\nRelease Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10841]\nLanguage: French\nCredits: Produced by Robert Connal, Renald Levesque and PG Distributed\nProofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made\navailable by gallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France) at\nhttp:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHAPITRE I\n\n\n\n\n\n         L'ARCHITECTURE CIVILE ET MILITAIRE\n\n\nL'attention des archologues qui ont visit l'gypte\na t si fortement attire par les temples et par les\ntombeaux que nul d'entre eux ne s'est attach  relever\navec soin ce qui reste des habitations prives et des\nconstructions militaires. Peu de pays pourtant ont conserv\nautant de dbris de leur architecture civile. Sans\nparler des villes d'poque romaine ou byzantine, qui\nsurvivent presque intactes  Kouft,  Kom-Ombo, \nEl-Agandiyh, une moiti an moins de la Thbes antique\nsubsiste  l'est et an sud de Karnak. L'emplacement\nde Memphis est sem de buttes qui atteignent 15\net 20 mtres de hauteur, et dont le noyau est form par\ndes maisons en bon tat. A Tell-el-Maskhoutah, les\ngreniers de Pithom sont encore debout;  Sn,  Tell-Basta,\nla cit sate et ptolmaque renferme des quartiers\ndont on pourrait lever le plan. Je ne parle ici que\ndes plus connues; mais combien de localits chappent\n la curiosit des voyageurs, o l'on rencontre des\nruines d'habitations prives remontant  l'poque des\nRamessides, et plus haut peut-tre! Quant aux forteresses,\nle seul village d'Abydos n'en a-t-il pas deux,\ndont une est au moins contemporaine de la VIe dynastie?\nLes remparts d'El-Kab, de Kom-el-Ahmar,\nd'El-Hibh, de Dakkh, mme une partie de ceux de\nThbes, sont debout et attendent l'architecte qui daignera\nles tudier srieusement.\n\n\nl.--LES MAISONS.\n\nLe sol de l'gypte, lav sans cesse par l'inondation,\nest un limon noir, compact, homogne, qui acquiert en\nse schant la duret de la pierre: les fellahs l'ont employ\nde tout temps  construire leur maison. Chez les\nplus pauvres, ce n'est gure qu'un amas de terre faonn\ngrossirement. On entoure un espace rectangulaire,\nde 2 ou 3 mtres de large sur 4 ou 5 de long, d'un\nclayonnage en nervures de palmier, qu'on enduit intrieurement\net extrieurement d'une couche de limon;\ncomme ce pis se crevasse en perdant son eau, on\nbouche les fissures et on tend des couches nouvelles,\njusqu' ce que l'ensemble ait de 10  30 centimtres\nd'paisseur, puis on tend au-dessus de la chambre\nd'autres nervures de palmier mles de paille, et on\nrecouvre le tout d'un lit mince de terre battue. La hauteur\nest variable: le plus souvent, le plafond est trs\nbas, et on ne doit pas se lever trop brusquement de peur\nde le dfoncer d'un coup de tte; ailleurs, il est  2 mtres\ndu sol ou mme plus. Aucune fentre, aucune\nlucarne o pntrent l'air et la lumire; parfois un\ntrou, pratiqu au milieu du plafond, laisse sortir la fume\ndu foyer; mais c'est l un raffinement que tout le\nmonde ne connat pas.\n\nIl n'est pas toujours facile de distinguer au premier\ncoup d'oeil celles de ces cabanes qui sont en pis et\ncelles qui sont en briques crues. La brique gyptienne\ncommune n'est gure que le limon, ml avec un peu\nde sable et de paille hache, puis faonn en tablettes\noblongues et durci au soleil. Un premier manoeuvre\npiochait vigoureusement  l'endroit o l'on voulait\nbtir; d'autres emportaient les mottes et les accumulaient\nen tas, tandis que d'autres les ptrissaient avec les\npieds et les rduisaient en masse homogne. La pte\nsuffisamment triture, le matre ouvrier la coulait dans\ndes moules en bois dur, qu'un aide emportait et s'en\nallait dcharger sur l'aire  scher, o il les rangeait en\ndamier,  petite distance l'une de l'autre (Fig.1). Les\nentrepreneurs soigneux les laissent au soleil une demi-journe\nou mme une journe entire, puis les disposent\nen monceaux de manire que l'air circule librement, et\nne les emploient qu'au bout d'une semaine ou deux;\nles autres se contentent de quelques heures d'exposition\nau soleil et s'en servent humides encore. Malgr\ncette ngligence, le\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlimon est tellement tenace qu'il ne\nperd pas aisment sa forme: la face tourne an dehors\na beau se dsagrger sous les influences atmosphriques,\nsi l'on pntre dans le mur mme, on trouve la\nplupart des briques intactes et sparables les unes des\nautres. Un bon ouvrier moderne en moule un millier\npar jour sans se fatiguer; aprs une semaine d'entranement,\nil peut monter  1,200,  1,500, voire  1,800.\nLes ouvriers anciens, dont l'outillage ne diffrait pas\nde l'outillage actuel, devaient obtenir des rsultats aussi\nsatisfaisants. Le module qu'ils adoptaient gnralement\nest de 0m,22,  0m,11,  0m,14 pour les briques de taille\nmoyenne, 0m,38,  0m,18,  0m,14 pour les briques de\ngrande taille; mais on rencontre assez souvent dans les\nruines des modules moindres ou plus forts. La brique\ndes ateliers royaux tait frappe quelquefois aux cartouches\ndu souverain rgnant; celle des usines prives\na sur le plat un ou plusieurs signes conventionnels\ntracs  l'encre rouge, l'empreinte des doigts du\nmouleur, le cachet d'un fabricant. Le plus grand nombre\nn'a point de marque qui les distingue. La brique cuite\nn'a pas t souvent employe avant l'poque romaine,\nnon plus que la tuile plate ou arrondie. La brique maille\nparat avoir t  la mode dans le Delta. Le plus\nbeau spcimen que j'en aie vu, celui qui est conserv\nau muse de Boulaq, porte  l'encre noire les noms de\nRamss III; l'mail en est vert, mais d'autres fragments\nsont colors en bleu, en rouge, en jaune ou en blanc.\nLa nature du sol ne permet pas de descendre beaucoup\nles fondations: c'est d'abord une couche de terre\nrapporte, qui n'a d'paisseur que sur l'emplacement des\ngrandes villes, puis un humus fort\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndense, coup de minces veines de sable, puis,  partir du niveau des\ninfiltrations, des boues plus ou moins liquides, selon\nla saison. Aujourd'hui, les maons indignes se contentent\nd'carter les terres rapportes et jettent les fondations\nds qu'ils touchent le sol vierge; si celui-ci est\ntrop loin, ils s'arrtent  un mtre environ de la surface.\nLes vieux gyptiens en agissaient de mme:\nje n'ai rencontr aucune maison antique dont les fondations\nfussent  plus de 1m,20, encore une pareille\nprofondeur est-elle l'exception, et n'a-t-on pas dpass\n0m,60 dans la plupart des cas. Souvent, on ne se fatiguait\npas  creuser des tranches: on nivelait l'aire\n couvrir, et, probablement aprs l'avoir arrose largement\npour augmenter la consistance du terrain, on\nposait les premires briques  mme. La maison termine,\nles dchets de mortier, les briques casses, tous les rebuts du travail\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\naccumuls formaient une couche\nde 20  30 centimtres: la partie du mur enterre\nde la sorte tenait lieu de fondations. Quand la maison\n btir devait s'lever sur l'emplacement d'une\nmaison antrieure, croule de vtust ou dtruite par\nun accident quelconque, on ne prenait pas la peine\nd'abattre les murs jusqu'au ras de terre. On galisait la\nsurface des dcombres et on construisait  quelques pieds\nplus haut que prcdemment: aussi chaque ville est-elle\nassise sur une ou plusieurs buttes artificielles, dont les\nsommets dominent parfois de 20 ou 30 mtres la campagne\nenvironnante. Les historiens grecs attribuaient\nce phnomne d'exhaussement  la sagesse des rois, de\nSsostris en particulier, qui avaient voulu mettre les\ncits  l'abri des eaux, et les modernes ont cru reconnatre le procd employ  cet effet: on construisait\ndes murs massifs de brique, entre-croiss en damier,\non comblait les intervalles avec des terres de dblayement,\net on levait les maisons sur ce patin gigantesque.\nPartout o j'ai fait des fouilles,  Thbes spcialement,\nje n'ai rien vu qui\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nrpondt  cette description; les murs entrecoups qu'on rencontre sous les dbris des maisons\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nrelativement modernes ne sont que des restes\nde maisons antrieures, qui\nreposaient elles-mmes sur\nles restes de maisons plus\nvieilles encore. Le peu de\nprofondeur des fondations\nn'empchait pas les maons\nde monter hardiment la btisse:\nj'ai not dans les\nruines de Memphis des pans\nencore debout de 10 et 12 mtres\nde haut. On ne prenait\nalors d'autre prcaution que\nd'largir la base des murs et de voter les tages\n(Fig.2). L'paisseur ordinaire tait de 0m,40 environ\npour une maison basse, mais pour une maison  plusieurs\ntages, on allait jusqu' 1 mtre ou 1m,25; des\npoutres, couches dans la maonnerie d'espace en\nespace, la liaient et la consolidaient. Souvent aussi on\nbtissait le rez-de-chausse en\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nmoellons bien appareills\net on relguait la brique aux tages suprieurs.\nLe calcaire de la montagne voisine est la seule pierre\ndont on se soit servi rgulirement en pareil cas. Les fragments de grs, de granit ou d'albtre qui y sont\nmls, proviennent gnralement d'un temple ruin:\nles gyptiens d'alors n'avaient pas plus scrupule\nque ceux d'aujourd'hui  dpecer leurs monuments\nds qu'on cessait de les surveiller. Les petites gens vivaient dans de\nvraies huttes qui, pour tre bties en\nbriques, ne valaient gure mieux que\nles cabanes des fellahs. A Karnak, dans\nla ville pharaonique,  Kom-Ombo,\ndans la ville romaine,  Mdint-Habou,\ndans la ville copte, les maisons\nde ce genre ont rarement plus de 4\nou 5 mtres de faade; elles se composent\nd'un rez-de-chausse que surmontent parfois\nquelques chambres d'habitation.\nLes gens aiss, marchands, employs\nsecondaires, chefs d'ateliers,\ntaient logs plus au large.\nLeurs maisons taient souvent\nspares de la rue par une cour\ntroite: un grand couloir s'ouvrait\nau fond, le long duquel\nles chambres taient ranges (Fig.3). Plus souvent, la\ncour tait garnie de chambres sur trois cts (Fig.4);\nplus souvent encore la maison prsentait sa faade \nla rue.\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC'tait alors un haut mur peint ou blanchi \nla chaux, surmont d'une corniche, et sans ouverture\nque la porte, ou perc irrgulirement de quelques\nfentres (Fig.5). La porte tait souvent de pierre,\nmme dans les maisons sans prtentions. Les jambages sont en saillie lgre sur la paroi, et le linteau\nest support d'une gorge peinte ou sculpte. L'entre\nfranchie, on passait successivement dans deux petites\npices sombres, dont la dernire\nprend jour sur la\ncour centrale (Fig.6). Le\nrez-de-chausse servait ordinairement\nd'table pour\nles baudets ou pour les\nbestiaux, de magasins pour\nle bl et pour les provisions,\nde cellier et de cuisine.\nPartout o les tages\nsuprieurs subsistent encore,\nils reproduisent\npresque sans modifications\nla distribution du rez-de-chausse. On y arrivait par\nun escalier extrieur, troit et\nraide, coup  des intervalles trs\nrapprochs par de petits paliers\ncarrs. Les pices taient oblongues et ne recevaient de lumire et d'air que par la porte:\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlorsqu'on\nse dcidait  percer des\nfentres sur la rue, c'taient des\nsoupiraux placs presque  la\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhauteur du plafond, sans rgularit ni symtrie, garnis\nd'une sorte de grille en bois  barreaux espacs, et\nferms par un volet plein. Les planchers taient briquets\nou dalls, plus souvent forms d'une couche de\nterre battue. Les murs taient blanchis  la chaux, quelquefois peints de couleurs vives. Le toit tait plat et\nfait probablement comme aujourd'hui de branches de\npalmiers serres l'une contre l'autre, et couvertes d'un\nenduit de terre assez pais pour rsister  la pluie.\nParfois il n'tait surmont que d'un ou deux de ces\nventilateurs en bois qu'on rencontre encore si frquemment\nen gypte; d'ordinaire, on y levait une ou\ndeux pices isoles,\nservant de buanderie\nou de dortoir pour les\nesclaves ou les\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngardiens. La terrasse et\nla cour jouaient un\ngrand rle dans la vie\ndomestique des anciens\ngyptiens; les\nfemmes y prparaient\nle pain (Fig.7), y cuisinaient,\ny causaient\n l'air libre; la famille\nentire y dormait l't, protge par des filets contre\nles attaques des moustiques. Les htels des riches et des seigneurs couvraient une\nsurface considrable: ils taient situs le plus souvent\nau milieu d'un jardin ou d'une cour plante, et prsentaient\n la rue, ainsi que les maisons bourgeoises,\ndes murs nus, crnels comme ceux d'une\nforteresse (Fig.8). La vie domestique tait cache et\ncomme replie sur elle-mme: on sacrifiait le plaisir\nde voir les passants  l'avantage de n'tre pas\naperu du dehors. La porte seule annonait quelquefois l'importance de la famille qui se dissimulait\nderrire l'enceinte. Elle tait prcde d'un perron\nde deux ou trois marches, ou d'un portique  colonnes (Fig.9) orn de\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstatues (Fig.10), qui lui\ndonnaient l'aspect\nmonumental; parfois\nc'tait un pylne\nanalogue \ncelui qui annonait\nl'entre des temples.\nL'intrieur\nformait comme une\npetite ville, divise en quartiers par des murs irrguliers:\nla maison d'habitation au fond, les greniers,\nles tables, les communs, rpartis aux diffrents endroits\nde l'enclos, selon des rgles qui nous chappent\nencore. Les dtails de l'agencement devaient\nvarier  l'infini; pour donner une ide de ce qu'tait\nl'htel d'un grand seigneur gyptien,\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n moiti palais,\nmoiti villa, je ne puis mieux faire que de reproduire\ndeux des plans nombreux que nous ont conservs les\ntombeaux de la XVIIIe dynastie.\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Le premier reprsente\nune maison thbaine (Fig.11-12). Le clos est carr entour d'un mur crnel. La porte principale s'ouvre\nsur une route borde d'arbres, qui longe un canal ou\nun bras du Nil.\n\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLe jardin est divis en compartiments\nsymtriques par des murs bas en pierres sches,\nanalogues  ceux qu'on voit encore dans les grands\njardins d'Akhmm ou de Girgh; au centre, une vaste\ntreille dispose dispose sur quatre rangs de colonnettes;  droite et  gauche, quatre pices d'eau peuples de canards et\nd'oies, deux ppinires, deux kiosques  jour, et des\nalles de sycomores, de dattiers et de palmiers-doums;\ndans le fond, en face de la porte, une maison  deux\ntages de petites dimensions, surmonte d'une corniche peinte. Le second plan est emprunt aux hypoges\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nde\nTell-el-Amarna (Fig.13-14). Il nous montre une maison,\nsitue an fond des jardins d'un grand seigneur, A,\ngendre du pharaon Khouniaton et, plus tard, lui-mme\nroi d'gypte. Un bassin oblong s'tend devant la\nporte: il est bord d'un quai en pente douce muni de\ndeux escaliers. Le corps de btiment est un rectangle\nplus large sur la faade que sur les parois latrales.\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUne grande porte s'ouvre au milieu et donne accs\ndans une cour plante d'arbres et borde de magasins\nremplis de provisions: deux petites cours places\nsymtriquement dans les angles les plus loigns\nservent de cage aux escaliers qui mnent sur la terrasse.\nCe premier\ndifice sert\ncomme d'enveloppe\nau logis du\nmatre. Les deux\nfaades sont ornes\nd'un portique\nde huit colonnes,\ninterrompu\nau milieu\npar la baie du\npylne. La porte\nfranchie, on dbouchait\ndans\nune sorte de long\ncouloir central, coup par deux murs percs de portes,\nde manire  former trois cours d'enfilade. Celle du\ncentre tait borde de chambres; les deux autres communiquaient\n droite et  gauche avec deux cours plus\npetites, d'o partaient les escaliers qui montent  la terrasse.\nCe btiment central tait\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nce que les textes appellent\nl'khonouti, la demeure intime du roi et des\ngrands seigneurs, o la famille et les amis les plus\nproches avaient seuls le droit de pntrer. Le nombre\ndes tages, la disposition de la faade diffraient selon le\ncaprice du propritaire. Le plus souvent la faade tait\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nunie; parfois elle tait divise en trois corps, et le corps\ndu milieu tait en saillie. Les deux ailes sont alors\nornes d'un portique  chaque tage (Fig.15), ou surmontes\nd'une galerie  jour (Fig.16); le pavillon central\na quelquefois l'aspect d'une tour qui domine le reste\nde la construction (Fig.17). Les faades sont dcores\nassez souvent de ces longues colonnettes en bois peint\nqui ne portent rien et servent seulement  gayer l'aspect\nun peu svre de l'difice. La distribution intrieure est\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npeu connue; comme dans les maisons bourgeoises,\nles chambres  coucher taient probablement\npetites et mal claires; mais, en revanche, les salles\nde rception devaient avoir  peu prs les dimensions\nadoptes aujourd'hui encore en gypte, dans les\nmaisons arabes. L'ornementation des parois ne comportait\npas des scnes ou des compositions analogues  celles qu'on rencontre  dans\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nles tombeaux. Les panneaux\ntaient passs  la chaux ou revtus d'une teinte uniforme et bords d'une bande multicolore. Les plafonds taient d'ordinaire laisss en blanc; parfois, cependant, ils\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nde documents.\nLes lampes en forme de maisons, qu'on trouve en si grand nombre au Fayoum, montrent qu'au temps des\nCsars romains, on continuait  btir selon les mmes\nrgles qui avaient eu cours sous les Thoutmos et les\nRamss. Pour l'ancien empire, les renseignements sont peu\nnombreux et peu clairs. Cependant, on rencontre souvent sur les stles, dans les hypoges ou dans les cercueils,\ndes dessins qui nous montrent quel aspect avaient les\nportes (Fig.21), et un sarcophage de la IVe dynastie,\ncelui de Khoutou-Poskhou, est taill en forme de maison\n(Fig.22).\n\n\n\n\ntaient dcors d'ornements gomtriques dont les principaux motifs taient rpts dans\nles tombeaux et nous ont t conservs de la sorte, des mandres entremls de rosaces (Fig.18), des carrs\nmulticolores (Fig.19), des ttes de boeuf vues de face,\ndes enroulements, des vols d'oies (Fig.20).Je n'ai parl que du second empire thbain; c'est en effet\nl'poque pour laquelle nous avons le plus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2.--LES FORTERESSES.\nLa plupart des villes et mme des bourgs importants\ntaient murs. C'tait une consquence presque ncessaire\nde la configuration gographique et de la constitution\npolitique du pays. Contre les Bdouins, il avait fallu\nbarrer le dbouch des gorges qui mnent au dsert; les grands seigneurs fodaux avaient fortifi, contre leurs\nvoisins et contre le roi, la ville o ils rsidaient,\net les villages de leur domaine qui commandaient les\ndfils des montagnes ou les passes resserres du fleuve.\n\nAbydos, El-Kab, Semnh possdent les forteresses\nles plus anciennes. Abydos avait un sanctuaire d'Osiris\net s'levait  l'entre d'une des routes qui conduisent\naux Oasis. La renomme du temple y attirait les plerins,\nla situation de la ville y amenait les marchands,\nla prosprit que lui valait l'affluence des uns et des\nautres l'exposait aux incursions des Libyens:\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nelle a,\naujourd'hui encore, deux forts presque intacts. Le plus\nvieux est comme le noyau du monticule que les Arabes\nappellent le Kom-es-soultn, mais l'intrieur seul en a t dblay jusqu' 3 ou 4 mtres au-dessus du sol antique;\nle trac extrieur des murs n'a pas t dgag des dcombres\net du sable qui l'entourent. Dans l'tat actuel, c'est un paralllogramme en briques\ncrues de 125 mtres de long sur 68 mtres de large. Le\nplus grand axe en est tendu du sud au nord. La porte\nprincipale s'ouvre dans le mur ouest, non loin de l'angle\nnord-ouest; mais deux portes de moindre importance  paraissent\navoir t mnages dans le front sud et dans celui de l'est.\nLes murailles ont perdu quelque peu de leur lvation; elles\nmesurent pourtant de 7  11 mtres de haut et sont larges\nd'environ 2 mtres au sommet. Elles ne sont pas bties\nd'une seule venue, mais se partagent en grands panneaux\nverticaux, facilement reconnaissables  la disposition des matriaux. Dans le premier, tous\nles lits de briques sont rigoureusement horizontaux;\ndans le second, ils sont lgrement concaves et forment\nun arc renvers, trs ouvert, dont l'extrados s'appuie\nsur le sol; l'alternance des deux procds se reproduit\nrgulirement. La raison de cette disposition est\nobscure: on dit que les difices ainsi construits rsistent mieux aux tremblements de terre. Quoi qu'il\nen soit, elle est fort ancienne, car, ds la Ve dynastie,\nles familles nobles d'Abydos envahirent l'enceinte et\nl'emplirent de leurs tombeaux an point de lui enlever\ntoute valeur stratgique. Une seconde forteresse, difie\n quelque cent mtres au sud-est, remplaa celle du\nKom-es-soultn vers la XVIIIe dynastie, mais faillit\navoir le mme sort sous les\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Ramessides; la dcadence subite\nde la ville l'a seule protge contre l'encombrement.\nLes gyptiens des premiers temps ne possdaient aucun engin capable de faire impression sur des murs\nmassifs. Ils n'avaient que trois moyens pour enlever de\nvive force une place ferme: l'escalade, la sape, le\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbris des portes. Le trac impos par leurs ingnieurs au\nsecond fort est des mieux calculs pour rsister efficacement\n ces trois attaques (Fig.23). Il se compose de\nlongs cts en ligne droite, sans tours ni saillants d'aucune\nsorte, mesurant 131m,30 sur les fronts est et ouest,\n78 mtres sur les fronts nord et sud. Les fondations\nportent directement sur le sable et ne descendent nulle\npart plus has que 0m,30. Le mur (Fig.24) est en briques\ncrues, disposes par assises horizontales; il est\nlgrement inclin en arrire, plein, sans archres ni\nmeurtrires, dcor  l'extrieur de longues rainures\nprismatiques, semblables  celles qu'on voit sur les\nstles de l'ancien Empire. Dans l'tat actuel, il domine\nla plaine de 11 mtres; complet, il ne devait gure\nmonter  plus de 12 mtres, ce qui suffisait amplement\npour mettre la garnison  l'abri d'une escalade par\nchelle portative  dos d'homme. L'paisseur est d'environ\n6 mtres  la base, d'environ 5 mtres au sommet. La crte est\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\npartout dtruite, mais les reprsentations\nfigures (Fig.25) nous montrent qu'elle tait couronne\nd'une corniche continue, trs saillante, garnie extrieurement\nd'un parapet mince, assez bas, crnel\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  merlons\narrondis, rarement quadrangulaires.\nLe chemin de ronde,\nmme diminu de l'paisseur\ndu parapet, devait atteindre\nencore 4 mtres ou 4 m,50.\nIl courait sans interruption\nle long des quatre fronts; on\ny montait par des escaliers\ntroits, pratiqus dans la maonnerie\net dtruits aujourd'hui.\nPoint de foss: pour dfendre le pied du mur\ncontre la pioche des sapeurs, on a trac,  3 mtres en\navant, une chemise crnele haute de\n5 mtres ou environ.\nToutes ces prcautions\ntaient suffisantes\ncontre la sape\net l'escalade, mais\nles portes restaient\ncomme autant de brches\nbantes dans l'enceinte; c'tait le point faible sur\nlequel l'attaque et la dfense concentraient leurs efforts.\nLe fort d'Abydos avait deux portes, dont la principale\ntait situe dans un massif pais,  l'extrmit orientale\ndu front est (Fig.26). Une coupure troite A, barre par de solides battants de bois, en marquait la place dans\nl'avant-mur. Par derrire, s'tendait une petite place\nd'armes B,  demi creuse dans l'paisseur du mur, au\nfond de laquelle tait pratique une\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nseconde porte C,\naussi resserre que la premire. Quand l'assaillant l'avait force\nsous la pluie de projectiles que\nles dfenseurs, posts au haut\ndes murailles, faisaient pleuvoir\nsur lui de face et des deux cts,\nil n'tait pas encore au coeur de\nla place; il traversait une cour\noblongue D, resserre entre les murs extrieurs et\nentre deux contreforts qui s'en dtachaient  angle\ndroit, et s'en allait briser  dcouvert\nune dernire poterne E, place\n dessein dans le recoin le plus incommode.\nLe principe qui prsidait\n la construction des portes tait\npartout le mme, mais les dispositions\nvariaient au gr de l'ingnieur. A la porte\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n sud-est d'Abydos (Fig.27), la place d'armes\nsitue entre les deux enceintes a t supprime, et la\ncour est tout entire dans l'paisseur du mur;  Kom-el-Ahmar,\nen face d'El-Kab (Fig.28), le massif de\nbriques, an milieu duquel la porte est perce, fait saillie\nsur le front de dfense. Des poternes, rserves en diffrents\nendroits, facilitaient les mouvements de la garnison\net lui permettaient de multiplier les sorties.\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLe mme trac qu'on employait pour les forts isols\nprvalait galement pour les villes. Partout,  Hliopolis,  Sn,  Sas,  Thbes, ce sont des murs droits, sans\ntours ni bastions, formant des\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncarrs ou des paralllogrammes\nallongs, sans fosss ni\navances; l'paisseur des murs, qui\nvarie entre 10 et 20 mtres, rendait ces prcautions inutiles. Les portes,\nau moins les principales, avaient des\njambages et un linteau en pierre, dcors\nde tableaux et de lgendes; tmoin celle d'Ombos,\nque Champollion vit encore en place et qui date du\nrgne de Thoutmos III. La plus\nvieille et la mieux\nconserve des villes\nfortes d'gypte,\ncelle d'El-Kab, remonte\nprobablement\njusqu' l'ancien\nEmpire\n(Fig.29). Le Nil en\na dtruit une partie\ndepuis quelques annes;\nau commencement du sicle, elle formait un quadrilatre irrgulier, dont les grands\ncts mesuraient 640 mtres et les petits\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nenviron un quart en moins. Le front sud prsente la mme disposition\nqu'au Kom-es-soultn, des panneaux o les lits de briques sont horizontaux, alternant avec d'autres\npanneaux o ils sont concaves. Sur les fronts nord et\nouest, les lits sont onduls rgulirement et sans interruption d'un bout  l'autre. L'paisseur est de 11m,50,\nla hauteur moyenne de 9 mtres; des rampes larges et\ncommodes mnent an chemin de ronde. Les portes sont\nplaces irrgulirement, une sur chacune des faces\nnord, est et ouest; la face mridionale n'en avait point.\nElles sont trop mal conserves pour qu'on en reconnaisse\nle plan. L'enceinte renfermait une population\nconsidrable, mais ingalement\nrpartie; le\ngros tait concentr au\nnord et  l'ouest, o\nles fouilles ont dcouvert\nles restes d'un\ngrand nombre de maisons.\nLes temples\ntaient rassembls\ndans une enceinte carre, qui avait le mme centre que\nla premire; c'tait comme un rduit, o la garnison\npouvait rsister, longtemps aprs que le reste de la\nville tait aux mains des ennemis.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLe trac  angle droit, excellent en plaine, n'tait\npas souvent applicable en pays accident; lorsque le\npoint  fortifier tait sur une colline, les ingnieurs\ngyptiens savaient adapter la ligne de dfense au relief\ndu terrain. A Kom-Ombo (Fig.30), les murs suivent\nexactement le contour de la butte isole sur laquelle\nla ville tait perche, et prsentaient  l'Orient un\nfront hriss de saillies irrgulires, dont le dessin rappelle\ngrossirement celui de nos bastions. A Koummh\net  Semnh, en Nubie,  l'endroit o le Nil s'chappe\ndes rochers de la seconde cataracte, les dispositions sont plus ingnieuses et tmoignent d'une\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n vritable\nhabilet. Le roi Ousirtasen III avait fix en cet endroit\nla frontire de l'gypte; les forteresses qu'il y\nconstruisit devaient barrer la voie d'eau aux flottes des\nNgres voisins. A Koummh, sur la rive droite, la position\ntait naturellement trs forte (Fig.31). Sur une\nminence borde de rochers\nabrupts, on dessina\nun carr irrgulier\nde 60 mtres environ de\nct; deux contreforts allongs\ndominent, l'un,\nan nord, les sentiers qui\nconduisent  la porte,\nl'autre, au sud, le cours\ndu fleuve. L'avant-mur\ns'lve  4 mtres en\navant et suit fidlement le mur principal, sauf en deux\npoints, aux angles nord-ouest et sud-est, o il prsente\ndeux saillies en forme de bastion.  Sur l'autre rive, \nSemnh, la position tait moins bonne; le ct oriental\ntait protg par une ceinture de rochers qui\ndescend  pic jusqu'au fleuve, mais les trois\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nautres\nfaces taient  peu prs nues (Fig.32). Un mur droit,\nhaut de 15 mtres environ, fut tabli le long du Nil;\nan contraire, les murs tourns vers la plaine montrent\njusqu' la hauteur de 25 mtres et se hrissrent\nde contreforts, longs de 15 mtres, pais de\n9 mtres  la base et de 4 mtres au sommet et disposs\n intervalles irrguliers selon les besoins de la\ndfense. Ces perons, non garnis de parapets, tenaient lieu de tours: ils augmentaient la force du trac, dfendaient\nl'accs du chemin de ronde et battaient en\nflanc les soldats qui auraient voulu tenter une attaque\nde haute main contre\nl'enceinte continue.\nL'intervalle qui les spare\nest calcul de manire\nque les archers\npuissent balayer de\nleurs flches tout le\nterrain compris entre\neux. Courtines et\nsaillants sont en briques\ncrues entremles\nde poutres couches\nhorizontalement dans\nla maonnerie; la surface extrieure en est forme de\ndeux parties, l'une  peu prs verticale,\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nl'autre incline de 160 degrs environ\nsur la premire,\nce qui rendait l'escalade\nsinon impossible,\nau moins fort\ndifficile. Intrieurement\ntout l'espace\ncompris dans l'enceinte\navait t\nhauss presque jusqu'au niveau du chemin de ronde,\nen manire de terre-plein (Fig.33). Au dehors, l'avant-mur\nen pierres sches tait spar du corps de la place\npar un foss de 30  40 mtres de large; il pousait assez exactement le contour gnral et dominait la plaine\nde 2 ou 3 mtres, selon les endroits; vers le nord, il\ntait coup par le chemin\ntournant qui descend en\nplaine. Ces dispositions, si\nhabiles qu'elles fussent,\nn'empchrent point la place\nde succomber; une large\nbrche pratique an sud,\nentre les deux saillants\nles plus rapprochs du\nfleuve, marque le point d'attaque choisi par l'ennemi. Les grandes guerres entreprises en Asie sous la\nXVIIIe dynastie rvlrent\naux gyptiens\ndes formes nouvelles\nde fortifications.\nLes nomades\nde la Syrie mridionale\navaient des fortins\no ils se rfugiaient\nsous la menace\nde l'invasion\n(Fig.34). Les villes\ncananennes et hittites,\nAscalon, Dapour,\nMrom, taient entoures de murailles puissantes,\nle plus souvent en pierre et flanques de tours\n(Fig.35); celles d'entre elles qui s'levaient en plaine,\ncomme Qodshou, taient enveloppes d'un double foss\nrempli d'eau (Fig.36). Les Pharaons\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntransportrent dans la valle du Nil les types nouveaux, dont ils\navaient prouv l'efficacit dans leurs campagnes. Ds\nles commencements de la XIXe dynastie, la frontire\norientale du Delta,\nla plus faible de\ntoutes, tait couverte\nd'une ligne de forts\nanalogues aux forts\ncananens; non contents\nde prendre la\nchose, les gyptiens\navaient pris le mot\net donnaient  ces tours de garde le nom smitique de magadlou. La\nbrique ne parut plus ds lors assez solide, au moins\npour les villes exposes aux incursions\ndes peuplades asiatiques, et\nles murs d'Hliopolis, ceux de\nMemphis mme, se revtirent de\npierre. Rien ne nous est rest jusqu'\nprsent de ces forteresses nouvelles,\net nous en serions rduits \nnous figurer, d'aprs les peintures,\nl'aspect qu'elles pouvaient avoir,\nsi un caprice royal ne nous en\navait laiss un modle dans un des endroits o on\ns'attendait le moins  le rencontrer, dans la ncropole\nde Thbes. Quand Ramss III tablit son temple funraire\n(Fig.37 et 38), il voulut l'envelopper d'une\nenceinte  l'apparence militaire, en souvenir de ses\nvictoires syriennes. Un avant-mur en pierre, crnel, haut de 4 mtres en moyenne, court le long du flanc\nest; la porte est pratique an milieu, sous la protection\nd'un gros bastion quadrangulaire. Elle tait large\nde 1 mtre, et flanque de deux petits corps de garde\noblongs, dont les terrasses s'lvent d'environ 1m,50 au-dessus\ndu rempart. Ds qu'on l'a franchie, on se trouve\ndevant un vritable\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMigdol: deux corps de logis,\nembrassant une cour qui va se rtrcissant par ressauts,\net runis par un btiment  deux tages, perc\nd'une porte longue. Les faces orientales des tours sont\nassises sur un soubassement inclin en talus, haut de\n5 mtres environ. Il tait  deux fins: d'abord il augmentait\nla force de rsistance du mur  l'endroit o on\npouvait le saper, ensuite les projectiles qu'on jetait\nd'en haut, ricochant avec force sur l'inclinaison du\nplan, tenaient l'assaillant  distance. La hauteur totale\nest de 22 mtres, et la largeur de 25 mtres sur le devant;\nles portions situes sur le derrire,  droite et \ngauche de la porte, out t dtruites ds l'antiquit. Les\ndtails de l'ornementation sont adapts au caractre moiti religieux, moiti triomphal de l'difice; il n'est\npas probable que les forteresses relles fussent dcores\nde consoles et de bas-reliefs analogues  ceux qu'on voit\nsur les cts de la place d'armes. Tel qu'\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 10841 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Maspero, G. (Gaston) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: French \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Maspero, G. 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A\r\ndelay has unfortunately occurred in the preparation of the biography\r\nand correspondence; and, as there have been frequent calls for a\r\npublication of his poems, and of the Lectures on Art he is known to\r\nhave written, it has been thought best to give them to the public in\r\nthe present form, without awaiting the completion of the whole\r\ndesign. It may be understood, however, that, when the biography\r\nand correspondence are published, it will be in a volume precisely\r\ncorresponding with the present, so as to carry out the original\r\ndesign.\nI will not anticipate the duty of the biographer by an extended notice\r\nof the life of Mr. Allston; but it may be interesting to some readers\r\nto know the outline of his life, and the different circumstances under\r\nwhich the several pieces in this volume were written.\nWASHINGTON ALLSTON was born at Charleston, in South Carolina, on the\r\n5th of November, 1779, of a family distinguished in the history of\r\nthat State and of the country, being a branch of a family of the\r\nbaronet rank in the titled commonalty of England. Like most young\r\nmen of the South in his position at that period, he was sent to New\r\nEngland to receive his school and college education. His school days\r\nwere passed at Newport, in Rhode Island, under the charge of Mr.\r\nRobert Rogers. He entered Harvard College in 1796, and graduated in\r\n1800. While at school and college, he developed in a marked manner\r\na love of nature, music, poetry, and painting. Endowed with senses\r\ncapable of the nicest perceptions, and with a mental and moral\r\nconstitution which tended always, with the certainty of a physical\r\nlaw, to the beautiful, the pure, and the sublime, he led what many\r\nmight call an ideal life. Yet was he far from being a recluse, or from\r\nbeing disposed to an excess of introversion. On the contrary, he was\r\na popular, high-spirited youth, almost passionately fond of society,\r\nmaintaining an unusual number of warm friendships, and unsurpassed by\r\nany of the young men of his day in adaptedness to the elegancies and\r\ncourtesies of the more refined portions of the moving world. Romances\r\nof love, knighthood, and heroic deeds, tales of banditti, and stories\r\nof supernatural beings, were his chief delight in his early days. Yet\r\nhis classical attainments were considerable, and, as a scholar in the\r\nliterature of his own language, his reputation was early established.\r\nHe delivered a poem on taking his degree, which was much admired in\r\nits day.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 11391 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Allston, Washington \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Allston, Washington,1779-1843 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43216278716573,"sku":"gb-11391-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/11391.jpg?v=1671343351"},{"product_id":"the-life-of-jesus-christ-for-the-young-vol-3-gb-11509","title":"The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs soon as he returned victorious from the temptation in the\r\nwilderness, Jesus entered on the work of his public ministry. 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Much of my work as been done obstinately in my own way; and he\r\n      is never responsible for me, though he has often kept me right, or at\r\n      least enabled me to advance in a new direction. Absolutely right no one\r\n      can be in such matters; nor does a day pass without convincing every\r\n      honest student of antiquity of some partial error, and showing him better\r\n      how to think, and where to look. 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To form,\r\n      \"within an experimental tube, a bit of more perfect sky than the sky\r\n      itself!\" here is magic of the finest sort! singularly reversed from that\r\n      of old time, which only asserted its competency to enclose in bottles\r\n      elemental forces that werenot of the sky.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 12641 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Ruskin, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Ruskin, John,1819-1900 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43216350707869,"sku":"gb-12641-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/12641.jpg?v=1671347645"},{"product_id":"international-weekly-miscellany-of-literature-art-and-science-volume-1-no-2-july-8-1850-gb-12975","title":"International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe LORGNETTE, the cleverest book of its kind (we were about\r\n    to write, since the days of Addison, but to avoid possible\r\n    disagreement say)since IRVING and PAULDING gave us\r\n    Salmagundi, is still coming before us at agreeable\r\n    intervals, and will soon be issued in a brace of volumes\r\n    illustrated by DARLEY. 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The Town and Country Club of Boston, the\r\n    Wistar Parties in Philadelphia, the Literary Club in\r\n    Charleston, the recent converzaziones at the houses of\r\n    President Charles King of Columbia College, and others, and the\r\n    well-known Saturday Evenings at Miss Lynch's, where literature\r\n    and art and general speculation have for some seasons had a\r\n    common center, all illustrate the disposition of an active and\r\n    cultivated society, not engrossed by special or spasmodic\r\n    excitements, to cluster by rules of feeling and capacity: and\r\n    clusters of passion and mind are rarely for a long period\r\n    inert. 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The del Puente\r\nGiorgione, which tells of an artful Great Lady and an Artless Expert.\r\nThe Lombard Runes, a mere interlude, but revealing a certain duplicity\r\nin Professional Seekers for Truth. Their Cross, so called from an\r\ninanimate Object of Price which wrought Woe to a well meaning New York\r\nCouple. The Missing St Michael, a tale of Italianate Americans which is\r\nfull of Vanities and, though alluring to the Sophisticated, quite unfit\r\nfor the Simple Reader. The Lustred Pots, again a mere interlude, but of\r\na grim sort, as it grazes the Sixth Commandment and The Balaklava\r\nCoronal, which, notwithstanding its exotic title, is mostly of our own\r\nPeople, showing the Triumph of a resourceful Dealer over two Critics and\r\na Captain of Industry. 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There often exist, however, along frontier lines\r\n    the traditions of thrilling exploits or amusing tricks,\r\n    recounted by old smugglers from the recollections of their own\r\n    youthful days or the narratives of their predecessors. Perhaps\r\n    no frontier is so rich in these tales as that between Spain and\r\n    France, where the mountainous recesses of the Pyrenees offer\r\n    secure retreats to the half-robber who drives the contraband\r\n    trade, as well as safe routes for the transportation of his\r\n    merchandise. On the line between the Russian Empire and Germany\r\n    the trade is greater in amount than elsewhere, but is devoid of\r\n    the romantic features which it possesses in other countries.\r\n    There, owing to the universal corruption of the servants of the\r\n    Russian government, the smuggler and the custom-house officer\r\n    are on the best terms with each Other and often are partners in\r\n    business. 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Is there\r\nany strain of tendency, any central current to be detected? Is it\r\nyoung genius in the raw, awaiting the sunshine of success to ripen its\r\nsomewhat terrifying gifts? Or is the exhibition a huge, mystifying\r\nblague? What, you ask, as you apply wet compresses to your weary\r\neyeballs, blistered by dangerous proximity to so many blazing\r\ncanvases, does the Autumn Salon mean to French art?\nThere are many canvases the subjects of which are more pathologic than\r\nartistic, subjects only fit for the confessional or the privacy of the\r\nclinic. But, apart from these disagreeable episodes, the main note of\r\nthe Salon is a riotous energy, the noisy ebullition of a gang of\r\nstudents let loose in the halls of art. 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I take this opportunity of thanking the editors of\n      all.\n    \n\n      With anyone who concludes that this preliminary essay is merely to justify\n      the rather appetizing title of my book I shall be at no pains to quarrel.\n      If privately I think it does more, publicly I shall not avow it.\n      Historically and critically, I admit, the thing is as slight as a sketch\n      contained in five-and-thirty pages must be, and certainly it adds nothing\n      to what I have said, in the essays to which it stands preface, on sthetic\n      theory. The function it is meant to performno very considerable one\n      perhapsis to justify not so much the title as the shape of my book,\n      giving, in the process, a rough sketch of the period with certain aspects\n      of which I am to deal. 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For hours they had\r\ntalked over the beautiful scheme, and were to present Mrs. Douglas's\r\nrequest to their parents that very night.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16241 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hoyt, Deristhe L. (Deristhe Levinte) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 7, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Colby, Homer Wayland, 1874-1950 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hoyt, Deristhe L. (Deristhe Levinte) \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217332273309,"sku":"gb-16241-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/16241.jpg?v=1671424962"},{"product_id":"florence-and-northern-tuscany-with-genoa-gb-16477","title":"Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlorence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa\r - With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nThe traveller who on his way to Italy passes along the Riviera di Ponente, through Marseilles, Nice, and Mentone to Ventimiglia, or crossing the Alps touches Italian soil, though scarcely Italy indeed, at Turin, on coming to Genoa finds himself really at last in the South, the true South, of which Genoa la Superba is the gate, her narrow streets, the various life of her port, her picturesque colour and dirt, her immense palaces of precious marbles, her oranges and pomegranates and lemons, her armsful of children, and above all the sun, which lends an eternal gladness to all these characteristic or delightful things, telling him at once that the North is far behind, that even Cisalpine Gaul is crossed and done with, and that here at last by the waves of that old and great sea is the true Italy, that beloved and ancient land to which we owe almost everything that is precious and valuable in our lives, and in which still, if we be young, we may find all our dreams. What to us are the weary miles of Eastern France if we come by road, the dreadful tunnels full of despair and filth if we come by rail, now that we have at last returned to her, or best of all, perhaps, found her for the first time in\r\n\n\r\n2the spring at twenty-one or so, like a fair woman forlorn upon the mountains, the Ariadne of our race who placed in our hand the golden thread that led us out of the cavern of the savage to the sunlight and to her. But though, indeed, I think all this may be clearer to those who come to her in their first youth by the long white roads with a song on their lips and a dream in their heartsfor the song is drowned by the iron wheels that doubtless have their own music, and the dream is apt to escape in the horror of the night imprisoned with your fellows; still, as we are so quick to assure ourselves, there are other ways of coming to Italy than on foot: in a motor-car, for instance, our own modern way, ah! so much better than the train, and truly almost as good as walking. For there is the start in the early morning, the sweet fresh air of the fields and the hills, the long halt at midday at the old inn, or best of all by the roadside, the afternoon full of serenity, that gradually passes into excitement and eager expectancy as you approach some unknown town; and every night you sleep in a new place, and every morning the joy of the wanderer is yours. You never \"find yourself\" in any city, having won to it through many adventures, nor ever are you too far away from the place you lay at on the night before. And so, as you pass on and on and on, till the road which at first had entranced you, wearies you, terrifies you, relentlessly opening before you in a monstrous white vista, and you who began by thinking little of distance find, as I have done, that only the roads are endless, even for you too the endless way must stop when it comes to the sea; and there you have won at last to Italy, at Genoa.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16477 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hutton, Edward \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 8, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hutton, Edward,1875-1969 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217349542045,"sku":"gb-16477-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/16477.jpg?v=1671425865"},{"product_id":"artist-and-public-and-other-essays-on-art-subjects-gb-16655","title":"Artist and Public, and Other Essays on Art Subjects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist and Public, and Other Essays on Art Subjects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the history of art, as in the history of politics and in the history\r\nof economics, our modern epoch is marked off from all preceding epochs\r\nby one great event, the French Revolution. Fragonard, who survived that\r\nRevolution to lose himself in a new and strange world, is the last at\r\nthe old masters; David, some sixteen years his junior, is the first of\r\nthe moderns. Now if we look for the most fundamental distinction between\r\nour modern art and the art of past times, I believe we shall find it to\r\nbe this: the art of the past was produced for a public that wanted it\r\nand understood it, by artists who understood and sympathized with their\r\npublic; the art of our time has been, for the most part, produced for a\r\npublic that did not want it and misunderstood it, by artists who\r\ndisliked and despised the public for which they worked. When artist and\r\npublic were united, art was homogeneous and continuous. Since the\r\ndivorce of artist and public art has been chaotic and convulsive.\nThat this divorce between the artist and his publicthis dislocation of\r\nthe right and natural relations between themhas taken place is\r\ncertain. The causes of it are many and deep-lying in our modern\r\ncivilization, and I can point out only a few of the more obvious ones.\nThe first of these is the emergence of a new public. The art of past\r\nages had been distinctively an aristocratic art, created for kings and\r\nprinces, for the free citizens of slave-holding republics, for the\r\nspiritual and intellectual aristocracy of the church, or for a luxurious\r\nand frivolous nobility. As the aim of the Revolution was the\r\ndestruction of aristocratic privilege, it is not surprising that a\r\nrevolutionary like David should have felt it necessary to destroy the\r\ntraditions of an art created for the aristocracy. In his own art of\r\npainting he succeeded so thoroughly that the painters of the next\r\ngeneration found themselves with no traditions at all. They had not only\r\nto work for a public of enriched bourgeois or proletarians who had never\r\ncared for art, but they had to create over again the art with which they\r\nendeavored to interest this public. How could they succeed? The rift\r\nbetween artist and public had begun, and it has been widening ever\r\nsince.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16655 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Cox, Kenyon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 5, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Cox, Kenyon,1856-1919 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217362616477,"sku":"gb-16655-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/16655.jpg?v=1671426588"},{"product_id":"a-wanderer-in-venice-gb-16705","title":"A Wanderer in Venice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Wanderer in Venice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a detailed guide to Venice the reader must go elsewhere; all that I\r\nhave done is invariably to mention those things that have most\r\ninterested me, and, in the hope of being a useful companion, often a few\r\nmore. But my chief wish (as always in this series) has been to create a\r\ntaste.\nFor the history of Venice the reader must also go elsewhere, yet for the\r\nsake of clarity a little history has found its way even into these\r\npages. To go to Venice without first knowing her story is a mistake, and\r\ndoubly foolish because the city has been peculiarly fortunate in her\r\nchroniclers and eulogists. Mr. H.F. Brown stands first among the living,\r\nas Ruskin among the dead; but Ruskin is for the student patient under\r\nchastisement, whereas Mr. Brown's serenely human pages are for all. Of\r\nMr. Howells' Venetian Life I have spoken more than once in this book;\r\nits truth and vivacity are a proof of how little the central Venice has\r\naltered, no matter what changes there may have been in government or\r\nhow often campanili fall. The late Col. Hugh Douglas's Venice on Foot,\r\nif conscientiously followed, is such a key to a treasury of interest as\r\nno other city has ever possessed. To Mrs. Audrey Richardson's Doges of\r\nVenice I am greatly indebted, and Herr Baedeker has been here as\r\nelsewhere (in the Arab idiom) my father and my mother.\nE.V.L.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16705 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 17, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Morley, Harry, 1881-1943 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lucas, E. V. 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I have put forward an hypothesis by reference to which the\r\nrespectability, though not the validity, of all aesthetic judgments can\r\nbe tested, in the light of which the history of art from palaeolithic\r\ndays to the present becomes intelligible, by adopting which we give\r\nintellectual backing to an almost universal and immemorial conviction.\r\nEveryone in his heart believes that there is a real distinction between\r\nworks of art and all other objects; this belief my hypothesis justifies.\r\nWe all feel that art is immensely important; my hypothesis affords\r\nreason for thinking it so. In fact, the great merit of this hypothesis\r\nof mine is that it seems to explain what we know to be true. Anyone who\r\nis curious to discover why we call a Persian carpet or a fresco by Piero\r\ndella Francesca a work of art, and a portrait-bust of Hadrian or a\r\npopular problem-picture rubbish, will here find satisfaction. He will\r\nfind, too, that to the familiar counters of criticisme.g. \"good\r\ndrawing,\" \"magnificent design,\" \"mechanical,\" \"unfelt,\" \"ill-organised,\"\r\n\"sensitive,\"is given, what such terms sometimes lack, a definite\r\nmeaning. In a word, my hypothesis works; that is unusual: to some it has\r\nseemed not only workable but true; that is miraculous almost.\nIn fifty or sixty thousand words, though one may develop a theory\r\nadequately, one cannot pretend to develop it exhaustively. My book is a\r\nsimplification. I have tried to make a generalisation about the nature\r\nof art that shall be at once true, coherent, and comprehensible. I have\r\nsought a theory which should explain the whole of my aesthetic\r\nexperience and suggest a solution of every problem, but I have not\r\nattempted to answer in detail all the questions that proposed\r\nthemselves, or to follow any one of them along its slenderest\r\nramifications. The science of aesthetics is a complex business and so is\r\nthe history of art; my hope has been to write about them something\r\nsimple and true. For instance, though I have indicated very clearly, and\r\neven repetitiously, what I take to be essential in a work of art, I\r\nhave not discussed as fully as I might have done the relation of the\r\nessential to the unessential. There is a great deal more to be said\r\nabout the mind of the artist and the nature of the artistic problem. It\r\nremains for someone who is an artist, a psychologist, and an expert in\r\nhuman limitations to tell us how far the unessential is a necessary\r\nmeans to the essentialto tell us whether it is easy or difficult or\r\nimpossible for the artist to destroy every rung in the ladder by which\r\nhe has climbed to the stars.\nMy first chapter epitomises discussions and conversations and long\r\nstrands of cloudy speculation which, condensed to solid argument, would\r\nstill fill two or three stout volumes: some day, perhaps, I shall write\r\none of them if my critics are rash enough to provoke me. As for my third\r\nchaptera sketch of the history of fourteen hundred yearsthat it is a\r\nsimplification goes without saying. Here I have used a series of\r\nhistorical generalisations to illustrate my theory; and here, again, I\r\nbelieve in my theory, and am persuaded that anyone who will consider the\r\nhistory of art in its light will find that history more intelligible\r\nthan of old. At the same time I willingly admit that in fact the\r\ncontrasts are less violent, the hills less precipitous, than they must\r\nbe made to appear in a chart of this sort. Doubtless it would be well if\r\nthis chapter also were expanded into half a dozen readable volumes, but\r\nthat it cannot be until the learned authorities have learnt to write or\r\nsome writer has learnt to be patient.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16917 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bell, Clive \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 21, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bell, Clive,1881-1964 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217381032093,"sku":"gb-16917-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/16917.jpg?v=1671427632"},{"product_id":"histoire-des-plus-celebres-amateurs-italiens-et-de-leurs-relations-avec-les-artistes-gb-17004","title":"Histoire des plus célèbres amateurs italiens et de leurs relations avec les artistes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistoire des plus célèbres amateurs italiens et de leurs relations avec les artistes - Tome IV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nLa cour d'Urbin; Jules II et Lon X; le Bramante; Giuliano da San Gallo;\r\nDcouverte du Laocoon; fondation de Saint-Pierre.\r\nAgostino Chigi; Balthasar Peruzzi; Sebastiano del Piombo.\r\nRaphaele Sanzio; La villa Chigi; Sainte-Marie-de-la-paix;\r\nSainte-Marie-du-Peuple. Le Bibbiena; le Bembo;\r\npremire reprsentation de la Calandria; Jules Romain;\r\nle marquis de Mantoue; Adrien VI; Clment VII; Charles-Quint;\r\ncole romaine.\n\n\r\nLe Titien; le Sansovino; Lione Lioni; Vasari; le Salviati; Enea Vico;\r\nAndra Schiavoni; Bonifazio; le Danese; Tiziano Aspetti;\r\nLe Tribolo; Simone Bianco; Lorenzo Lotto;\r\nFra Sebastiano; le Tintoretto; Gio. da Udine; Jules Romain;\r\nMichel-Ange; Baccio Bandinelli.\r\nAndr Doria; le marquis du Guast; le doge Andr Gritti;\r\nPaul III; Charles-Quint; le duc Alexandre de Mdicis.\r\ncole vnitienne.\n\n\r\nSimon Vout; le Dominiquin; Peiresc;\r\nLe Bernin; Pierre de Cortone; Corneille Bloemaert; Pietro Testa;\r\nArtemisia Gentileschi; Giovanna Gazzoui; le jsuite Fra Giov. Saliano;\r\nPierre Mignard; C. A. Dufresnoy; Nicolas Poussin; Paul V; Urbain VIII;\r\nPaul Frart de Chantelou; M. de Noyers; Le cardinal de Richelieu.\n\nL'auteur et l'diteur de cet ouvrage se rservent le droit de le\r\ntraduire ou de le faire traduire en toutes les langues. Ils\r\npoursuivront, en vertu des lois, dcrets et traits internationaux,\r\ntoutes contrefaons ou toutes traductions faites au mpris de leurs\r\ndroits.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 17004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Dumesnil, Antoine Jules \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 4, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: French \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Dumesnil, Antoine Jules,1805-1891 \/ eBook \/ French","offer_id":43217387847837,"sku":"gb-17004-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/17004.jpg?v=1671427970"},{"product_id":"ancient-art-and-ritual-gb-17087","title":"Ancient Art and Ritual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAncient Art and Ritual\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may be well at the outset to say clearly what is the aim of the\r\npresent volume. The title is Ancient Art and Ritual, but the reader\r\nwill find in it no general summary or even outline of the facts of\r\neither ancient art or ancient ritual. These facts are easily accessible\r\nin handbooks. The point of my title and the real gist of my argument lie\r\nperhaps in the word andthat is, in the intimate connection which I\r\nhave tried to show exists between ritual and art. This connection has, I\r\nbelieve, an important bearing on questions vital to-day, as, for\r\nexample, the question of the place of art in our modern civilization,\r\nits relation to and its difference from religion and morality; in a\r\nword, on the whole enquiry as to what the nature of art is and how it\r\ncan help or hinder spiritual life.\nI have taken Greek drama as a typical instance, because in it we have\r\nthe clear historical case of a great art, which arose out of a very\r\nprimitive and almost world-wide ritual. The rise of the Indian drama, or\r\nthe medival and from it the modern stage, would have told us the samevi\r\ntale and served the like purpose. But Greece is nearer to us to-day than\r\neither India or the Middle Ages.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 17087 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Harrison, Jane Ellen \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 18, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Harrison, Jane Ellen,1850-1928 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217423466653,"sku":"gb-17087-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/17087.jpg?v=1671431401"},{"product_id":"french-art-classic-and-contemporary-painting-and-sculpture-gb-17244","title":"French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrench Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than that of any other modern people French art is a national\r\nexpression. It epitomizes very definitely the national sthetic judgment\r\nand feeling, and if its manifestations are even more varied than are\r\nelsewhere to be met with, they share a certain character that is very\r\nsalient. Of almost any French picture or statue of any modern epoch\r\none's first thought is that it is French. The national quite overshadows\r\nthe personal quality. In the field of the fine arts, as in nearly every\r\nother in which the French genius shows itself, the results are evident\r\nof an intellectual co-operation which insures the development of a\r\ncommon standard and tends to subordinate idiosyncrasy. The fine arts, as\r\nwell as every other department of mental activity, reveal the effect of\r\nthat social instinct which is so much more powerful in France than it is\r\nanywhere else, or has ever been elsewhere, except possibly in the case\r\nof the Athenian republic. Add to this influence that of the intellectual\r\nas distinguished from the sensuous instinct, and one has, I think, the\r\nkey to this salient characteristic of French art which strikes one so\r\nsharply and always as so plainly French. As one walks through the French\r\nrooms at the Louvre, through the galleries of the Luxembourg, through\r\nthe unending rooms of the Salon he is impressed by the splendid\r\ncompetence everywhere displayed, the high standard of culture\r\nuniversally attested, by the overwhelming evidence that France stands at\r\nthe head of the modern world stheticallybut not less, I think, does\r\none feel the absence of imagination, opportunity, of spirituality, of\r\npoetry in a word. The French themselves feel something of this. At the\r\ngreat Exposition of 1889 no pictures were so much admired by them as the\r\nEnglish, in which appeared, even to an excessive degree, just the\r\nqualities in which French art is lacking, and which less than those of\r\nany other school showed traces of the now all but universal influence of\r\nFrench art. The most distinct and durable impression left by any\r\nexhibition of French pictures is that the French sthetic genius is at\r\nonce admirably artistic and extremely little poetic.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 17244 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Brownell, W. C. (William Crary) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 6, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Brownell, W. C. (William Crary),1851-1928 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217438572701,"sku":"gb-17244-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/17244.jpg?v=1671432031"},{"product_id":"the-madonna-in-art-gb-17373","title":"The Madonna in Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Madonna in Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is now about fifteen centuries since the Madonna with her Babe was\r\nfirst introduced into art, and it is safe to say that, throughout all\r\nthis time, the subject has been unrivalled in popularity. It requires\r\nno very profound philosophy to discover the reason for this. The\r\nMadonna is the universal type of motherhood, a subject which, in its\r\nvery nature, appeals to all classes and conditions of people. No one\r\nis too ignorant to understand it, and none too wise to be superior to\r\nits charm. The little child appreciates it as readily as the old man,\r\nand both, alike, are drawn to it by an irresistible attraction. Thus,\r\ncentury after [xiv]century, the artist has poured out his soul in this\r\nall-prevailing theme of mother love until we have an accumulation of\r\nMadonna pictures so great that no one would dare to estimate their\r\nnumber. It would seem that every conceivable type was long since\r\nexhausted; but the end is not yet. So long as we have mothers, art\r\nwill continue to produce Madonnas.\nWith so much available material, the student of Madonna art would be\r\ndiscouraged at the outset were it not possible to approach the subject\r\nsystematically. Even the vast number of Madonna pictures becomes\r\nmanageable when studied by some method of classification. Several\r\nplans are possible. The historical student is naturally guided in his\r\ngrouping by the periods in which the pictures were produced; the\r\ncritic, by the technical schools which they represent. Besides these\r\nmore scholarly methods, are others, founded on [xv]simpler and more\r\nobvious dividing lines. Such are the two proposed in the following\r\npages, forming, respectively, Part I. and Part II. of our little\r\nvolume.\nThe first is based on the style of composition in which the picture is\r\npainted; the second, on the subject which it treats. The first\r\nexamines the mechanical arrangement of the figures; the second asks,\r\nwhat is the real relation between them? The first deals with external\r\ncharacteristics; the second, with the inner significance.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 17373 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 22, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hurll, Estelle M. 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