A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, ArchitectureWaters, Clara Erskine Clement
History
A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
Art -- History
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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 the Vatican), 26
Landscape Illustration to the Odyssey
(from a wall-painting discovered on
the Esquiline at Rome), 28
The Flight of AEneas (from a wall-painting), 30
Demeter Enthroned
(from a Pompeian wall-painting), 31
Pompeian Wall-painting, 32
Nest of Cupids
(from a Pompeian wall-painting), 33
Doves Seated on a Bowl (from a
mosaic picture in the Capitol, Rome), 35
Niobe (from a picture on a slab of
granite at Pompeii), 37
The Dodwell Vase, 38
Scene in the Lower World (from a vase
of the style of Lower Italy), 39
Moses (from a painting in the
Catacomb of S. Agnes), 43
Decoration of a Roof
(Catacomb of S. Domitilla), 44
Justinian, Theodora, and Attendants
(from a mosaic picture at S. Vitalis,
Ravenna), 46
The Discovery of the Herb Mandragora
(from a MS. of Dioskorides, at Vienna), 48
King David (from a window in
Augsburg Cathedral), 51
Window (from the Cathedral of St. Denis), 52
Figure of Henry I. in west window of
Strasbourg Cathedral, 55
Birth of the Virgin (from the
Grandes Heures of the Duc de Berri), 57
The Annunciation (from the Mariale of
Archbishop Arnestus of Prague), 59
Painted Window at Konigsfelden, 60
Portrait of Cimabue, 61
The Madonna of the Church of
Santa Maria Novella, 63
Portrait of Dante, painted by Giotto, 65
Giotto's Campanile and the Duomo (Florence), 67
Fra Angelico (from the representation of
him in the fresco of the "Last
Judgment" by Fra Bartolommeo), 74
An Angel (Fra Angelico), 77
Christ (Gio. Bellini), 81
Madonna (Perugino), 83
Leonardo da Vinci, 85
The Last Supper (Da Vinci), 88
Mona Lisa (Da Vinci), 91
Portrait of Michael Angelo, 95
The Prophet Jeremiah (Michael Angelo), 101
Statue of Moses (Michael Angelo), 102
The Madonna del Sacco (Sarto), 106
Portrait of Raphael, painted by himself, 109
The Sistine Madonna (Raphael), 113
St. Cecilia Listening to the Singing
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