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DürerDürer - Artist-BiographiesThis little volume presents an account of the life of one of the noblest and most versatile artists of Germany, with a passing glance at the activities of Northern Europe at the era of the Reformation. The weird and wonderful paintings of...
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The Use of a Box of Colours, in a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and ColourThe Use of a Box of Colours, in a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour.Between those works on Art which are too costly, or too old to be useful now,those, which are too comprehensive or prolixand those, which teach nothing,it was...
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Great Masters in Painting and SculptureRembrandt van RijnIn order to reduce the volume on Rembrandt, published in 1899, to the smaller dimensions demanded by the "Great Masters" series, it became necessary to dispense with some of the material included in it. This, it is hoped, has been done without...
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Stories Pictures Tell. Book 2Stories Pictures Tell. Book 2Art supervisors in the public schools assign picture-study work in each grade, recommending the study of certain pictures by well-known masters. As Supervisor of Drawing I found that the children enjoyed this work but that the teachers felt incompetent to...
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Stories Pictures Tell. Book 1Stories Pictures Tell. Book 1Art supervisors in the public schools assign picture-study work in each grade, recommending the study of certain pictures by well-known masters. As Supervisor of Drawing I found that the children enjoyed this work but that the teachers felt incompetent to...
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The Memoirs of Madame Vigée LebrunThe Memoirs of Madame Vigée LebrunMadame Lebrun brought out her Memoirs at the suggestion of her friend, the Princess Dolgoruki, in 1835. The authoress was born in 1756, at Paris, where she died in 1842. She was the daughter of Louis Vige, an obscure...
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Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5)Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5)I was in hopes that this volume might have gone its way without preface; but as I look over the sheets, I find in them various fallings short of old purposes which require a word of explanation. Of which...
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Louis David, Son Ecole et Son Temps: SouvenirsLouis David, Son Ecole et Son Temps: SouvenirsCendres de Voltaire.Le Jeu de Paume.Les frres Franque.David membre de la Convention.Premier discours de David.L'ancienne acadmie attaque.Topino Le Brun.Basseville.Le Pelletier de Saint-Fargeau.Marat et David.Portrait de Marat.Statue du peuple franais.Commission du Musum.David prside la Convention.Discours de David.Le temps...
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Stories Pictures Tell. Book 4Stories Pictures Tell. Book 4Art supervisors in the public schools assign picture-study work in each grade, recommending the study of certain pictures by well-known masters. As Supervisor of Drawing I found that the children enjoyed this work but that the teachers felt incompetent to...
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Rembrandt's AmsterdamRembrandt's Amsterdam To locate the houses of some others of Rembrandt's artist-friends and pupils is more difficult: Ferdinand Bol lived, in Rembrandt's time, on the "Fluweele burgwal" (i.e., on the map, the left-hand side of the canal numbered 28), and afterwards in the new...
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Hoe men schilder wordtHoe men schilder wordtEene oude vrouw was voor een kantkussen gezeten en wierp de ratelende bouten onophoudend door elkander, terwijl zij, met eene wonderlijke vinnigheid, de spelden over het kassen deed wandelen. Op haar gelaat glom die zoete welwillendheid, welke het aangezicht van sommige...
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Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters'Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters' I have been often asked to republish the first book of mine which the public noticed, and which, hitherto, remains their favourite, in a more easily attainable form than that of its existing editions. I am, however, resolved...
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The Painter in OilThe Painter in Oil - A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colorsBooks of instruction in the practice of painting have rarely been successful. Chiefly because they have been too narrow in their point of...
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Masterpieces in ColourVelazquez This picture was painted for the Torre de la Parada, and shows King Philip's younger brother in hunting costume. Velazquez seems to have repainted a part of the canvas which is to be seen in the Prado, Madrid. It is a curious truth...
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RaeburnRaeburn This chef-d'oeuvre, which dates from about 1807, represents one of the most celebrated characters who ever sat upon the bench of the Court of Session. Famous in his day for "law, paunch, whist, claret, and worth," the exploits of Charles Hay, "The Mighty,"...
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Vigée Le BrunVigée Le Brun The first portrait that Vige Le Brun painted, in her twenty-fourth year (1779) of Marie Antoinette. Here is no hint of the tragedy that was to overwhelm the handsome young daughter of Austria; all was as yet but gaiety and roses...
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Vida y obras de don Diego VelázquezVida y obras de don Diego VelázquezDe dos maneras son las vidas que se escriben de los grandes hombres: una reservada a los historiadores o crticos de alto vuelo, para quienes no tiene secretos la investigacin ni obscuridad el discurso; otra a la cual...
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Frederic Lord Leighton: An Illustrated Record of His Life and WorkFrederic Lord Leighton: An Illustrated Record of His Life and WorkThe reception given to previous editions of this work encourages the publishers to hope that a re-issue in a smaller form may be appreciated. The present volume is reprinted with a few alterations and...
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PeruginoPeruginon considering the work of one of the greatest of the masters of the Renaissance, we have to go further back than the disputed question as to who was the first teacher of Pietro di Cristofano Vannuccisurnamed by his contemporaries "il Perugino," the Perugianand...
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The Venetian School of PaintingThe Venetian School of PaintingMany visits to Venice have brought home the fact that there exists, in English at least, no work which deals as a whole with the Venetian School and its masters. Biographical catalogues there are in plenty, but these, though useful...
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