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Thoughts on Art and LifeThoughts on Art and Life he long obscurity of the Dark Ages lifted over Italy, awakening to a national though a divided consciousness. Already two distinct tendencies were apparent. The practical and rational, on the one hand, was soon to be outwardly reflected in...
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18th Century in English CaricatureThe Eighteenth Century in English CaricatureThe word Caricature does not lend itself easily to precise definition. Etymologically it connects itself with the Italian caricare, to load or charge, thus corresponding precisely in derivation with its French equivalent Charge; andsave a yet earlier reference in...
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M.P.'s in SessionM. P.'s in Session: From Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait GalleryA ready wit and a fluent tongue are valuable auxiliaries. But force of character, consciousness of power, masculine ability in grappling with complicated questions, and that species of eloquence, the effect of which arises rather...
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Six Centuries of PaintingSix Centuries of PaintingSo far as it concerns pictures painted upon panel or canvas in tempera or oils, the history of painting begins with Cimabue, who worked in Florence during the latter half of the thirteenth century. That the art was practised in much...
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The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and RobinsonThe Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson - Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy.This text uses UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you...
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The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1In America apology in journalism is unknown. The exception is the well-known story of the man whose death was published in the obituary column. He rushed into the office of the paper and cried out to the editor:...
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Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and TechnologyPresentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology - Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution] Figure 1.Miniature ship presented to Adm. Robert E. Peary by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Loan of Robert E. Peary. In...
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HolbeinHolbeinThe eighty-three years stretching from 1461 to 1543between the probable year of the elder Hans Holbein's birth and that in[Pg 2] which the younger, the great Holbein, diedconstitute one of those periods which rightly deserve the much-abused name of an Epoch. The Christian era...
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10)Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10) - Fra Giocondo to Niccolo SoggiIf writers of history were to live a few years longer than the number commonly granted as the span of human life, I, for my part,...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 05 (of 10)Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 05 (of 10) - Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo LottoSeeing that it is no less necessary for sculptors to have mastery over their carving-tools than it is for him who practises painting to be...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 04 (of 10)Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 04 (of 10) - Filippino Lippi to Domenico PuligoTruly great was the advancement conferred on the arts of architecture, painting, and sculpture by those excellent masters of whom we have written hitherto, in the...
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History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria, v. 1A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1[Pg v] In face of the cordial reception given to the first two volumes of MM. Perrot and Chipiez's History of Ancient Art, any words of introduction from me to this second instalment would be...
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Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and LifeLaurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life Die Realitt der Dinge ist der Dinge Werk; der Schein der Dinge ist der Menschen Werk; und ein Gemt, das sich am Scheine weidet, ergtzt sich schon nicht mehr an dem, was es empfngt, sondern an dem,...
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AmoAmoWohl mglich, da eine abwartende Haltung nicht mehr in die heutige Gesellschaft pat und da derjenige, der das, was er liebt, laut verkndigt, mehr Aussicht hat, die wie er im Lebenskampf Stehenden mit sich fortzureien, als der, welcher seinen Glauben bekennt; und da der...
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Luca SignorelliLuca SignorelliThe Frontispiece and the illustrations facing pp. 40, 42, and 60 (2) are from photographs by Hanfstaengl (Munich), those facing pp. 46 (No. 2) and 68 by Anderson (Rome), that facing page 108 by A. Braun & Co. (Dornach and Paris), those facing...
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Outdoor SketchingOutdoor Sketching - Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914My chief reason for confining these four talks to the outdoor sketch is because I have been an outdoor painter since I was sixteen years of age; have never...
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Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal EngravingAriadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving1. The entrance on my duty for to-day begins the fourth year of my official work in Oxford; and I doubt not that some of my audience are asking themselves, very doubtfullyat all events, I ask...
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The Enjoyment of ArtThe Enjoyment of ArtThe following pages are the answer to questions which a young man asked himself when, fresh from the university, he found himself adrift in the great galleries of Europe. As he stood helpless and confused in the presence of the visible...
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The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to LifeThe Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to LifeIN the daily life of the ordinary man, a life crowded with diverse interests and increasingly complex demands, some few moments of a busy week or month or year are accorded to an...
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A Pindarick Ode on PaintingA Pindarick Ode on Painting - Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq.AS the subject of this Ode is, from the copiousness of it, almost an inexhaustible one (were I to take notice of all the minuter branches of this art, in which the several masters...
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