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The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the RenaissanceThe Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance ORE than twenty years ago we published, with the aid of our friend Ferdinand Sr, whose loss we regret, and with the co-operation of other learned men and of the most...
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ArtArtNot far from Paris, on the Seine, near Meudon, is a hamlet bearing the delightful name of Val-Fleury. Crowning the little hill above this village rises a group of buildings which in their charm and originality at once attract interest. You might almost guess...
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Moorish Remains in SpainMoorish Remains in SpainTHE inception of my work on The Alhambra, to which this book is designed to be the companion and complementary volume, was due to the disappointing discovery that no such thing as an even moderately adequate souvenir of the Red Palace...
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The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisationThe Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation REECE and Greek mean different things to different people. To the man in the street, if he exists, they stand for something proverbially remote and obscure, as dead as Queen Anne, as...
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Handbooks of the great craftsmenThe Pavement Masters of Siena (1369-1562)The first impression that this book may give, is that I have put the cart before the horse, and that, instead of dwelling on the Pavement Masters, I have laid too much stress on the Pavement itself, and too...
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A Child's Guide to PicturesA Child's Guide to PicturesSOME of you, I expect, collect photographs of pictures in connection with your history studies. These portraits of the principal characters and pictures, illustrating great events, places, costumes, and modes of living of the period, add greatly to the interest...
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History of Sculpture, Painting, and ArchitectureHistory of Sculpture, Painting, and ArchitectureTaste is the perception of intellectual pleasure. Beauty, the object of taste and the source of this pleasure, is appreciated by the understanding, exercised, either upon the productions of art, or upon the works of nature. The term beauty,...
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Modern French MastersModern French MastersThe source of art is the fountain of Love: the winged spirits, Painting, Sculpture, and Poetry, spring from it hand in hand. With affectionate leave-takings and cries of joy at their liberation, they soar into space, the angel of Music out-winging the...
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Kaunis ja sen laitKaunis ja sen laitSuomentajan alkusanat. I. Taiteen synty ja kehitysoppi. II. Yleisptevt esteettiset arvostelmat. III. Ei-esteettisi tekijit. IV. Ulkonaisen luonnon vaikutelmat. V. Uskonnollinen tunne ja luonnonksitys. VI. Muotojen kauneuslait. VII. Symmetria. VIII. Vrisymboliikka. IX. Vastavrit. X. Kaunis ja tarkoituksenmukaisuus. XI. Kaunis luonnossa ja taiteessa....
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Ideals in Art: Papers Theoretical, Practical, CriticalIdeals in Art: Papers Theoretical, Practical, CriticalThe collected papers which form this book have been written at different times, and in the intervals of other work. Most of them were specially addressed to, and read before the Art Workers Guild, as contributions to the...
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Ladies' manual of art; or, profit and pastimeLadies' manual of art; or, profit and pastime. - A self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature. pastel and...
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Principle in Art, EtcPrinciple in Art, Etc.With one exception, namely the last Paper in the Collection, which appeared in the Fortnightly Review, all these Essays were printed in the St. Jamess Gazette during the editorship of Mr. Greenwood. The Essay on Architectural Styles contains a summary of...
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Heart of EuropeHeart of EuropeBY RALPH ADAMS CRAM, Litt.D., LL.D. F.A.I.A., A.N.A., F.R.G.S. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1916 {iv} Copyright, 1915, by CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS Published October, 1915 {v} TO E. S. C. WHO SOME DAY MAY KNOW THE HEART OF EUROPE AND TO...
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Naturalistic Photography for Students of the ArtNaturalistic Photography for Students of the Art.At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, held in Paris on the 19th day of August, 1839, Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre, in the presence of the flower of Parisian art, literature and science, gave a demonstration...
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Dauber: A PoemDauber: A Poem Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck, All work aboard was over for the hour, And some men sang and others played at check, Or mended clothes or watched the sunset glower. The bursting west was like an...
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Rooman keisareita marmorihahmossaRooman keisareita marmorihahmossaJos nousette Kapitoliumille nhdksenne Julius Cesarin ja miss hnet kohtaisi, ellei siell? niin lk odottako saavanne katsella Sullan "huolettomasti vytetty poikaa", jonka olento on hillitn, eleet houkuttelevat, tukka kihara, silmt mustat ja vilkkaat ja jsenet kauniisti pyristyneet ja solakat! Se Cesar, Afroditen...
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Un hollandais à Paris en 1891: Sensations de littérature et d'artUn hollandais à Paris en 1891: Sensations de littérature et d'artIl faut bien quil soit dans la petite ville dHilversum, o lon tisse la laine et le coton, un de ces poles de Hollande, dans lesquels le sage, comme au temps de Descartes, senferme...
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La dame qui a perdu son peintreLa dame qui a perdu son peintreIl a t tir de cet ouvrage: 20 exemplaires sur papier de Chine, numrots de 1 20; 10 exemplaires sur papier du Japon, numrots de 21 30; 70 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande, numrots de 31 100. Le...
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Das zweite Gesicht: Eine LiebesgeschichteDas zweite Gesicht: Eine LiebesgeschichteSie ghnte herzhaft, reckte sich, sprang auf, schttelte ihre Rcke zurecht, klopfte sich die Schrze glatt, bckte sich ber eine Torfkuhle, um zu sehen, ob ihr Haar noch in Ordnung sei und ob die Haube nicht schief sitze, stemmte die...
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Italian BackgroundsItalian BackgroundsTo the mind curious in contrastssurely one of the chief pleasures of travelthere can be no better preparation for a descent into Italy than a sojourn among the upper Swiss valleys. To pass from the region of the obviously picturesquethe country contrived, it...
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