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A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, ArchitectureA History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, ArchitectureIn speaking of art we often contrast the useful or mechanical arts with the Fine Arts; by these terms we denote the difference between the arts which are used in making such things as...
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The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 EDMUND BURKE. POEMS BY S. G. GOODRICH RICHARD B. KIMBALL. THE BISHOP OF JAMAICA. ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE. CLASSICAL NOVELS. SLIDING SCALE OF THE INCONSOLABLES. A NEW SERIES OF TALES BY MISS MARTINEAU. ON THE ATTEMPTS...
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The Venetian Painters of the RenaissanceThe Venetian Painters of the Renaissance - Third EditionThe following essay owes its origin to the author's belief that Venetian painting is the most complete expression in art of the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance is even more important typically than historically. Historically it may...
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The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 - of Literature, Science and Art.Of the revolutions of the age, one of the most interesting and important is that which has taken place in the forms of Literature and the Modes of its...
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On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2)On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and LiteratureDo you think that the sculpture in the British Museum should be in the same building with the pictures in the National Gallery, that is...
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The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)CIMABUE (1240-1302) ARNOLFO DI LAPO (1232-1310) BONANNO (fl. 1174-1186 LAPO (1190-1260) NICCOLA AND GIOVANNI PISANI fl 1205, 1278, 1250-1328) ANDREA TAFI (1250-1320) GADDO GADDI (1259-1333) MARGARITONE (1210-1293) GIOTTO (1267-1337) PUCCIO CAPANNA (fl. 1350)...
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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)The name of this illustrious painter was Tiziano Vecellio or Vecelli, and he is called by the Italians, Tiziano Vecellio da Cadore. He was descended of a noble family; born...
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The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852The April number of the International Monthly Magazine completes the fifth volume, and the series. The Publishers respectfully announce to its readers and the public, that from the issue of the present Volume, the Magazine...
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Adventures in the ArtsAdventures in the Arts - Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and PoetsPerhaps the most important part of Criticism is the fact that it presents to the creator a problem which is never solved. Criticism is to him a perpetual Presence: or perhaps a ghost...
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Religion and Art in Ancient GreeceReligion and Art in Ancient GreeceGreek religion may be studied under various aspects; and many recent contributions to this study have been mainly concerned either with the remote origin of many of its ceremonies in primitive ritual, or with the manner in which some...
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Art in England: Notes and StudiesArt in England: Notes and StudiesIt will be readily understood that this little volume does not affect to set forth anything like a formal history of the rise and progress of Art in England. The fitting treatment of such a theme would need much...
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The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1Mr. JOHN PICKARD, Professor in the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Mr. THEO. J. PINCHES, of the British Museum, London. Prof. WM. C. POLAND, of Brown University, Providence, R.I. Mr. W.M. RAMSAY, Professor in the University of Aberdeen. Dr....
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The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No IIThe International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No IIOn the preceding page is a portrait, and under the head of Recent Deaths, in another part of this magazine, is a sketch of the history of Nicholas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, the last of the great...
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A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)ix The greater part of the following treatise remains in the exact form in which it was read at Manchester; but the more familiar passages of it, which were trusted to extempore delivery, have been...
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Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd.1, Mitteldeutschland, 1914Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd.1, Mitteldeutschland, 1914 Die erste Auflage dieses Werkes erschien in fnf Bnden in den Jahren 1905-1912. Ich beginne die zweite mit dem Ausdruck des Dankes an alle, die mich bei der Ausfhrung der ersten untersttzt haben. Ihre Zahl ist so...
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Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870The following lectures were the most important piece of my literary work done with unabated power, best motive, and happiest concurrence of circumstance. They were written and delivered while my mother yet...
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L'art russe: Ses origines, ses éléments constitutifs, son apogée, son avenirL'art russe: Ses origines, ses éléments constitutifs, son apogée, son avenirIl est des peuples auxquels on accorde tout, d'autres auxquels on refuse tout: dans notre vieux coin occidental de l'Europe, s'entend. Et quand on voit, en France, bon nombre de Franais refuser leur propre...
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HokousaïHokousaï - L'art japonais au XVII Siècle par Tous droits de traduction, d'adaptation et de reproduction rservs pour tous les pays Yokohama (Hpital gnral). Voulez-vous permettre un jeune Franais de vous exprimer tout le plaisir que lui a caus Outamaro, mieux plac que tout...
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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)Champollion, the famous explorer of Egyptian antiquities, holds the following language at the end of his fifteenth letter, dated at Thebes. "It is evident to me, as it must be...
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Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi ValleyAnimal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley - Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166The considerable degree of decorative and artistic skill attained by the so-called Mound-Builders,...
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