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L'ArteL'ArteCHI ha letto la storia di Bouvard e Pcuchet, i due compassionevoli enciclopedici eroi balzati fuori dalla mente creatrice di Gustavo Flaubert, rammenter che, dopo avere studiato tanti rami dello scibile, la storia, la chimica, lanatomia, larcheologia, la politica, lagricoltura, ligiene; delusi continuamente dalle...
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Korean Buddhism: History—Condition—ArtKorean Buddhism: History—Condition—ArtThe author does not over-estimate the importance of this little book: it is nothing more than its title claims. It consists of three lectures given to popular audiences, with the accompaniment of many illustrations. It represents, however, a considerable amount of work...
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The Mysteryes of Nature and ArtThe Mysteryes of Nature and Art - Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly...
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Sir Joshua Reynolds' DiscoursesSir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses - Edited, with an Introduction, by Helen ZimmernSir Joshua Reynoldsto whom is the name unfamiliar? to whom, hearing it, does not appear in mental vision the equally familiar autograph portrait of the deaf artist? This picture, painted originally for Mr....
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Handbuch der KunstgeschichteHandbuch der KunstgeschichteUm jeden Schein einer eiteln Patronatsmiene von mir abzuwenden, erzhle ich schlicht, wie es kommt, dass ich dieses Werk mit einem Vorworte begleite. Ich hatte vor Jahren zugesagt, die Geschichte der bildenden Knste fr die Neue Encyklopdie der Wissenschaften und Knste zu...
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La maison d'un artiste, Tome 2La maison d'un artiste, Tome 2Puis, prenant au hasard dans la range de livres, il nous tombe sous la main la Pucelle d'Orlans, avec les figures de Gravelot; les insipides Hrodes de Blin de Sainmore la pompeuse illustration; les trois volumes des A-propos de...
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Mediæval town seriesThe Story of Siena and San GimignanoTHIS present volume is intended to provide a popular history of the great Republic of Siena, in such a form that it can also serve as a guide-book to that most fascinating of Tuscan cities and its neighbourhood....
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The Legendary History of the CrossThe Legendary History of the Cross - A Series of Sixty-four Woodcuts from a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483THE origin of the medival romance of the Cross is hard to discover. It was very popular. It occurs in a good number of...
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The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine ArtsThe Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts - Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory EssayHegel's "sthetik," or "Philosophy of Fine Art," is a work which should no longer be inaccessible to the English reading public, but the reproduction of which, in...
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La maison d'un artiste, Tome 1La maison d'un artiste, Tome 1En ce temps o les choses, dont le pote latin a signal la mlancolique vie latente, sont associes si largement par la description littraire moderne l'Histoire de l'Humanit, pourquoi n'crirait-on pas les mmoires des choses au milieu desquelles s'est...
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Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of DesignsEvolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of DesignsNotwithstanding the immense number of books, dissertations, and papers which have been written on pictorial and decorative art, I venture to add one more to their number. I profess to be neither an artist nor...
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Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and ArtParallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and ArtIN a recent work by an eminent man of science, Dr. J. Reinke, Professor of Botany at the University of Kiel, there occurs a passage which I cannot do better than place in the forefront of...
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The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851Among the many extraordinary chapters in the history of the Nineteenth Century none will seem in the next age more incredible and curious than that in which is related the Rise and Progress of Mormonism. The...
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Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical SocietyCatalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical SocietyThis catalogue describes the paintings in the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, with two hundred and eighty-six miniatures, comprising the Mari Collection and seventy-six objects of Sculpture. The New...
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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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