Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 44509-h.htm or 44509-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44509/44509-h/44509-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44509/44509-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the Google Books Library Project. See http://www.google.com/books?id=sqIZAAAAYAAJ Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Greek transliterations are enclosed by curly braces (example: {kosmos}). The transcriber's descriptions of illustrations are in parentheses. A MANUAL OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ART. [Illustration: CHART OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ART.] A MANUAL OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ART Pre-historic--Ancient--Classic--Early Christian With Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Ornamentation by G. G. ZERFFI, PH.D., F.R.S.L. One of the Lecturers of H. M. Department of Science and Art. London: Hardwicke & Bogue, 192 Piccadilly, W. 1876. London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street The right of translation is reserved. This Book is Inscribed TO E. J. POYNTER, ESQ., R.A. DIRECTOR OF THE ART TRAINING SCHOOLS, SOUTH KENSINGTON, IN RECOGNITION OF HIS GENIUS AS A PAINTER, AND OF HIS UNTIRING EFFORTS IN PROMOTING HIGHER ART EDUCATION. PREFACE. An experience of more than eight years as Lecturer on the ‘Historical Development of Art,’ at the National Art Training School, South Kensington, has convinced me of the necessity for a short and concise Manual, which should serve both the public and students as a guide to the study of the history of art. In all our educational establishments, colleges, and ladies’ schools, the study of art-history, which ought to form one of the most important subjects of our educational system, is entirely neglected. To suggest and to excite to such a study is the aim of this book. It would be impossible to exhaust in a short volume even that section of the subject which I propose to treat, and the most that can be done is to give outlines, which must be filled in by further studies.