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The Madonna in ArtThe Madonna in ArtIt is now about fifteen centuries since the Madonna with her Babe was first introduced into art, and it is safe to say that, throughout all this time, the subject has been unrivalled in popularity. It requires no very profound philosophy...
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French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and SculptureFrench Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and SculptureMore than that of any other modern people French art is a national expression. It epitomizes very definitely the national sthetic judgment and feeling, and if its manifestations are even more varied than are elsewhere to be...
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Ancient Art and RitualAncient Art and RitualIt may be well at the outset to say clearly what is the aim of the present volume. The title is Ancient Art and Ritual, but the reader will find in it no general summary or even outline of the facts...
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Histoire des plus célèbres amateurs italiens et de leurs relations avec les artistesHistoire des plus célèbres amateurs italiens et de leurs relations avec les artistes - Tome IV La cour d'Urbin; Jules II et Lon X; le Bramante; Giuliano da San Gallo; Dcouverte du Laocoon; fondation de Saint-Pierre. Agostino Chigi; Balthasar Peruzzi; Sebastiano del Piombo. Raphaele...
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ArtArtIn this little book I have tried to develop a complete theory of visual art. I have put forward an hypothesis by reference to which the respectability, though not the validity, of all aesthetic judgments can be tested, in the light of which the...
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A Wanderer in VeniceA Wanderer in VeniceFor a detailed guide to Venice the reader must go elsewhere; all that I have done is invariably to mention those things that have most interested me, and, in the hope of being a useful companion, often a few more. But...
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Artist and Public, and Other Essays on Art SubjectsArtist and Public, and Other Essays on Art SubjectsIn the history of art, as in the history of politics and in the history of economics, our modern epoch is marked off from all preceding epochs by one great event, the French Revolution. Fragonard, who...
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Florence and Northern Tuscany with GenoaFlorence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa - With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition The traveller who on his way to Italy passes along the Riviera di Ponente, through Marseilles, Nice, and Mentone to Ventimiglia, or crossing...
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Barbara's HeritageBarbara's Heritage - Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters "O Barbara! do you think papa and mamma will let us go? Can they afford it? Just to think of Italy, and sunshine, and olive trees, and cathedrals, and pictures! Oh, it makes me...
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Essays on ArtEssays on ArtThese essays, reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement with a few additions and corrections, are not all entirely or directly concerned with art; but even the last oneWaste or Creation?does bear on the question, How are we to improve the art of...
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Selections From the Works of John RuskinSelections From the Works of John Ruskin In making the following selections, I have tried to avoid the appearance of such a volume as used to be entitled Elegant Extracts. Wherever practicable, entire chapters or lectures are given, or at least passages of sufficient...
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The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 - A Typographic Art JournalEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by JAMES SUTTON, JR., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. Toward the close of the last...
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A Wanderer in HollandA Wanderer in HollandIt would be useless to pretend that this book is authoritatively informing. It is a series of personal impressions of the Dutch country and the Dutch people, gathered during three visits, together with an accretion of matter, more or less pertinent,...
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International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is...
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Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in EgyptManual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt To put this book into English, and thus to hand it on to thousands who might not otherwise have enjoyed it, has been to me a very congenial and interesting task....
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850A magnificent work1 upon this subject has just been completed in Paris, where it was commenced fifteen years ago. It was begun under the auspices of M. Paul Delaroche...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850The following interesting sketch of the Drama in the empire of the Czar is translated for the International from the Leipzig Grenzboten. The facts it states are not only...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850From a sprightly letter from Paris to the Cologne Gazette, we translate for The International the following account of the position of women in the French Republic, together with...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850"Among the most remarkable writers of romances in England, three women are entitled to be reckoned in the first rank, namely, Miss Jewsbury, Miss Bronte, and Mrs. Gaskell. Miss...
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etcAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.Since the early nineteenth century it has been known that Frances Reynolds, the sister of Sir Joshua, was the author of an essay on taste, which she had...
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