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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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The Diary of an EnnuyéeThe Diary of an EnnuyéeCalais, June 21.What young lady, travelling for the first time on the Continent, does not write a "Diary?" No sooner have we slept on the shores of Franceno sooner are we seated in the gay salon at Dessin's, than we...
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Les femmes d'artistesLes femmes d'artistesC'tait l'heure des effusions, des confidences. La lampe clairait doucement sous l'abat-jour, limitant son cercle de flamme l'intimit de la causerie, laissant peine distinct le luxe capricieux des vastes murailles encombres de toiles, de panoplies, de tentures, et termines tout en haut...
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The Florentine Painters of the RenaissanceThe Florentine Painters of the Renaissance - With An Index To Their WorksThe lists have been thoroughly revised, and some of them considerably increased. Botticini, Pier Francesco Fiorentino, and Amico di Sandro have been added, partly for the intrinsic value of their work, and...
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The Book of Art for Young PeopleThe Book of Art for Young PeopleMy thanks are due and are cordially rendered to the Earl of Yarborough, Sir Frederick Cook, and the authorities of Trinity College, Cambridge, for permission to reproduce their pictures; to Lady Alfred Douglas and Mr. Henry Newbolt for...
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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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