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Where Art BeginsWhere Art Begins HEN a few really congenial spirits meet together, it is astonishing how quickly the subject which perhaps one of the party starts will grow, and how many branches it will shoot out before its vitality can be considered exhausted. My present...
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CompositionCompositionNote.The author gratefully acknowledges the courtesy of those named below in according him permission to use photographs of certain paintings and objects of art as illustrations for this book. License to use photographs was also obtained from the Autotype Fine Art Company, Limited, London...
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A Manual of the Historical Development of ArtA Manual of the Historical Development of Art - Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and OrnamentationAn experience of more than eight years as Lecturer on the Historical Development of Art, at the National Art Training School, South Kensington, has convinced...
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Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and ArtMen of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and ArtThe anticipation of nature by Lucretius[B] in his philosophical poem, De Rerum Natura, accords in a broad and remarkable way with our present knowledge of the prehistory of man: This is a picture of...
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A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, ArchitectureA History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, ArchitectureARCHITECTURE seems to me to be the most wonderful of all the arts. We may not love it as much as others, when we are young perhaps we cannot do so, because it is...
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Rambles in RomeRambles in Rome - An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the CampagnaThe object of our work is to describe in a practical manner the points of interest in and around the Eternal City. One...
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The Kingdom of God is Within You What is Art?The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art?This book of mine, "What is Art?" appears now for the first time in its true form. More than one edition has already been issued in Russia, but in each case it has been so...
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An Artist's Letters from JapanAn Artist's Letters from JapanMy Dear Adams: Without you I should not have seen the place, without you I should not have seen the things of which these notes are impressions. If anything worth repeating has been said by me in these letters, it...
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VeniceVeniceThere is no city more written about, more painted, and more misrepresented, than Venice. Students, poets, and painters have combined in reproducing her many charms. Usually, however, Venice is described in a hurried, careless way: the subject is seldom gone deeply into, and studied...
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Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 45Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine ArtsMost of the following compositions were written several years ago, when the Author was a student in the distinguished University of Dublin; whose acknowledged excellence in classical literature, and in every branch of scientific learning, needs not...
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History of Ancient ArtHistory of Ancient ArtTHE application of the historic method to the study of the Fine Arts, begun with imperfect means by Winckelmann one hundred and twenty years ago, has been productive of the best results in our own days. It has introduced order into...
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I Bagni di Lucca, Coreglia e BargaI Bagni di Lucca, Coreglia e Barga e abitazioni dei Bagni di Lucca sono situate in un villaggio circondato da alte montagne, o sono assise su l'una di queste montagne, non lungi dalla sorgente principale. Un gruppo pittoresco di case guarda la vallata incantevole....
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Il Valdarno da Firenze al mareIl Valdarno da Firenze al mare scorre dolcemente fra i greppi fioriti del parco meraviglioso delle Cascine e gli argini che difendono i piani feraci di Legnaja, e con capricciosi ed ampi serpeggiamenti si dirige verso la stretta gola della Golfolina, dove il Valdarno...
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CataniaCataniaPer iscrivere le glorie d'una Citt clarissima, sara necessario, che nella mia penna per inchiostro corressero distemprati i raggi del Sole. Parler di quella Padria de' Tullij, de' Demosteni, e de' pi Savij, ch'omai popolassero i Licei di Minerva; di cospicuo Ariopago delle virt,...
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The Cubies' ABCThe Cubies' ABC Title: The Cubies' ABC Author: Mary Chase Mills Lyall Release Date: November 21, 2012 [EBook #41423] Language: English Credits: Produced by Jana Srna, Ethan W. Kent, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from...
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Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and FranceStained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and Francev The Cathedral verger, conducting his flock of tourists round the building, while giving them plenty of really interesting and valuable information about it (for the verger of to-day is a different man from his...
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Catálogo Monumental de España; Provincia de ÁlavaCatálogo Monumental de España; Provincia de Álava - Inventario general de los monumentos históricos y artísticos de al nación.INVENTARIAR los monumentos de un pas es renovar su Poesa y acrecer su Historia. El pasado, como el espritu, no muere, sino que, libre de las...
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Mediæval town seriesVenice and Its StoryTHE History of Venice is the history of a State unparalleled in Europe for permanence and stability. For centuries Venice occupied that position of maritime supremacy now held by Great Britain, and time was when an English king was fain to...
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Art in America: A Critical and Historial SketchArt in America: A Critical and Historial SketchTHE aim of this book has been to give a historical outline of the growth of the arts in America. But while this has been the dominating idea in the mind of the writer, criticism has necessarily...
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The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3)The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3)In this Lecture I shall submit to your consideration some criticisms on the prevailing method of treating the History of our Art; attended by a series of observations on the magnificent picture of the...
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