A HISTORY OF ART FOR BEGINNERS AND STUDENTS
Painting--Sculpture--Architecture
With Complete Indexes and Numerous Illustrations
by
CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
Author of "Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art," "Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, Architects and Their Works," "Artists of the Nineteenth Century," Etc.
[Illustration]
New York Frederick A. Stokes Company MDCCCXCI
Copyright, 1887, by Frederick A. Stokes, Successor to White, Stokes, & Allen.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. PAGE ANCIENT PAINTING, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE CHRISTIAN ERA, 1 EGYPT, 3 ASSYRIA, 9 BABYLON, 11 ANCIENT GREECE AND ITALY, 13 MOSAICS, 34 PAINTINGS ON STONE, 36 VASE-PAINTING, 36
CHAPTER II.
MEDIAEVAL PAINTING, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE RENAISSANCE, 41 THE EARLY PERIOD, 42 THE CENTRAL, OR ROMANESQUE PERIOD, 50 THE FINAL, OR GOTHIC PERIOD, 54
CHAPTER III.
PAINTING IN ITALY, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT CENTURY, 72
CHAPTER IV.
PAINTING IN FLANDERS, HOLLAND, AND GERMANY, 155
CHAPTER V.
PAINTING IN SPAIN, 207
CHAPTER VI.
PAINTING IN FRANCE, 234
CHAPTER VII.
PAINTING IN ENGLAND, 249
INDEX, 305
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE Harp-player (from an Egyptian painting), 3 King Ramesses II. and his Sons Storming a Fortress (from Abousimbel), 5 Fragment of an Assyrian Tile-painting, 10 Sacrifice of Iphigenia (from a Pompeian wall-painting), 16 Etruscan Wall-painting, 22 Human Sacrifice Offered by Achilles to the Shade of Patroklos (from an Etruscan wall-painting), 24 The Aldobrandini Marriage (from a wall-painting in
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A History of Art for Beginners and Students
- 2: 144 Beatrice Cenci Guido Reni
- 3: The fine arts are Architecture
- 4: Egyptian men were painted in a reddish brown
- 5: The execution of Egyptian paintings was very mechanical
- 6: Fragment of an assyrian tile painting
- 7: Many of the Babylonish tiles are in regular
- 8: Then Parrhasius painted a hanging curtain
- 9: The son or brother of Nikomachos
- 10: Originated in his criticism of Protogenes
- 11: And Pliny said of him Ludius
- 12: On account of the death of his dear friend Patroklos
- 13: And is called the Aldobrandini Marriage
- 14: Mosaics were used for floors or pavements only
- 15: It is known as the Capitoline Doves
- 16: Which is made from a vase painting
- 17: From a painting in the Catacomb of S
- 18: This emperor never visited Ravenna
- 19: And was written by Dioskorides for his pupil
- 20: The painting of the Romanesque period was merely a decline
- 21: Some of these grisaille windows are seen in France
- 22: These guilds became powerful organizations
- 23: Painted window at konigsfelden
- 24: And henceforth the little Giotto lived with Cimabue
- 25: Giotto did much work in Florence
- 26: Another eminent Florentine artist was ANDREA ORCAGNA
- 27: So that he was at last called Il Beato Giovanni
- 28: Six years they dwelt at Foligno
- 29: The brethren of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
- 30: There is a fresco by Masolino in the same chapel
- 31: The Doge sent to him Gentile Bellini
- 32: Leonardo was placed under the care of Verrocchio
- 33: While in Florence Leonardo accomplished much
- 34: The lady was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo
- 35: About 1513 Bartolommeo went to Rome
- 36: Was then governor of Caprese and Chiusi
- 37: In a quarrel with Pietro Torrigiano
- 38: When this was finished in 1508
- 39: The Duke and Leonardo Buonarroti erected a monument
- 40: One of which is called the Madonna del Sacco
- 41: Among which was the so called Staffa Madonna
- 42: He also executed wall paintings in the Chigi Palace
- 43: About 1520 Raphael painted the famous Sistine Madonna
- 44: At one time he expected to marry Maria de Bibiena
- 45: Doubtless Bazzi was lost in the shadow of the great Raphael
- 46: Much of the work of Giorgione has disappeared
- 47: Of the same time with Giorgione
- 48: Here Titian entertained many people
- 49: And both Titian and Orazio fell victims to it
- 50: Among these was JACOPO ROBUSTI 1512 1594
- 51: From the birth place of JACOPO DA PONTE BASSANO 1510 1592
- 52: In 1530 he returned to Correggio
- 53: Upper part of a fresco by correggio
- 54: AGOSTINO CARACCI 1558 1601 and ANNIBALE CARACCI 1560 1609
- 55: Domenichino was made very unhappy in Rome
- 56: We know that Guido was not a very great master
- 57: In person Elisabetta Sirani was beautiful
- 58: Next to Caravaggio came GIUSEPPE RIBERA
- 59: But his principal works were landscapes
- 60: And begin with the family of Van Eyck
- 61: Of LAMBERT VAN EYCK very little is known
- 62: ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN the younger
- 63: In another four years under Otto Vaenius
- 64: Upon which an epitaph written by Gevartius was inscribed
- 65: Was ANTHONY VANDYCK 1599 1641
- 66: But was restored to Saventhem in 1815
- 67: Vandyck was fascinated with Rome
- 68: Vandyck founded the Club of St
- 69: And Vandyck saw the royal family
- 70: This Teniers studied with his father
- 71: Teniers had several royal patrons
- 72: It represents a lecture by Professor Tulp
- 73: In 1634 Rembrandt married Saskia van Ulenburg
- 74: PAUL POTTER 1625 1654 was born at Enkhuysen
- 75: His works at Basle were mostly decorative
- 76: He also decorated the Town Hall at Basle
- 77: The city of Nuremburg was a grand
- 78: Pirkheimer was rich and influential
- 79: Now in the Monastery at Strahow
- 80: The emperor spent little time at Nuremburg
- 81: A Duerer celebration was held in Nuremburg
- 82: And before leaving England she married Antonio Zucchi
- 83: She painted several portraits of herself
- 84: In 1581 the king saw Morales at Badajoz
- 85: The pictures of Carreno were most excellent
- 86: Utande took the picture to Carreno
- 87: Zurbaran was appointed painter to Philip IV
- 88: Was a portrait of his friend Fonesca
- 89: Velasquez gave Pareja his freedom
- 90: Murillo met with an old fellow pupil
- 91: And Murillo was its first president
- 92: Murillo sometimes pictured her as a dark haired woman
- 93: Or copies by the hand of Tobar
- 94: Ribalta was no exception to this rule
- 95: And Poussin never returned to France
- 96: Whose real name was Claude Gelee
- 97: The pictures of Watteau are fine
- 98: The Hemicycle is richly colored
- 99: Jean louis gericault 1791 1824
- 100: The Vernets had originated in Avignon
- 101: Is known to us as Sir PETER LELY
- 102: Sir GODFREY KNELLER 1646 1723
- 103: Hogarth was buried in Chiswick Churchyard
- 104: Such a life had Sir Joshua Reynolds
- 105: Gainsborough had many warm friends
- 106: Copley married Susan or Susannah
- 107: Which also owns several other Copleys
- 108: His Lear is in the Boston Athenaeum
- 109: And did his fancy sketches when sitters disappointed him
- 110: And for thirty years his sitters were attired in red
- 111: Like the traditional hair dresser
- 112: Girtin would have been a powerful rival to Turner
- 113: Ended Turner's visits to Farnley
- 114: In 1806 Turner began his Liber Studiorum
- 115: And often took journeys with Turner
- 116: With thirteen illustrations by Turner
- 117: Turner spent some time in Edinburgh
- 118: In 1840 Turner exhibited the Bacchus and Ariadne
- 119: And the tradesmen Admiral Booth
- 120: The youngest son of John Landseer
- 121: Landseer was paid one hundred pounds
- 122: In 1826 Landseer painted Chevy Chase
- 123: And the whole were cast under the care of Baron Marochetti
- 124: The past is always fascinating
- 125: 124 Bacchus and Ariadne Turner
- 126: 287Byron's Works illustrated by Turner
- 127: 266 Christ in Glory Correggio
- 128: 141 Condemnation of Marie Antoinette Delaroche
- 129: 181Drawing first regularly taught in Sikyon school
- 130: 251 False Players Caravaggio
- 131: 266 Harlot's Progress Hogarth
- 132: 207 208Intaglios in Egyptian painting
- 133: 134 Madonna di San Francesco Sarto
- 134: 148 Maids of Honor Velasquez
- 135: 211 Nativity of the Saviour Correggio
- 136: 234 236 Presentation in the Temple Titian
- 137: Margaret Overcoming the Dragon Raphael
- 138: 202 Scene at Abbotsford Landseer
- 139: Coello painter to the Cathedral of
- 140: 174Winckelmann and Angelica Kauffman