E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Anne Storer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24726-h.htm or 24726-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/2/24726/24726-h/24726-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/2/24726/24726-h.zip) 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.