Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)Spooner, Shearjashub
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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)
Spooner, Shearjashub
Art -- Anecdotes; Artists -- Anecdotes
Nero's Golden Palace, 155
Names of Ancient Architects Designated by Reptiles, 156
Triumphal Arches, 157
Statue of Pompey the Great, 159
Antique Sculptures in Rome, 159
Ancient Map of Rome, 160
Julian the Apostate, 160
The Tomb of Mausolus, 161
Mandrocles' Bridge Across the Bosphorus, 162
The Colossus of the Sun at Rhodes, 162
Statues and Paintings at Rhodes, 164
Sostratus' Light-House on the Isle of Pharos, 164
Dinocrates' Plan for Cutting Mount Athos into a
Statue of Alexander the Great, 165
Pope's idea of Forming Mount Athos into a Statue
of Alexander the Great, 166
Temple with an Iron Statue Suspended in the Air by Loadstone, 168
The Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens, 168
The Parthenon at Athens, 170
The Elgin Marbles, 171
The first Odeon at Athens, 182
Perpetual Lamps, 182
The Skull of Raffaelle, 183
The Four Finest Pictures in Rome, 183
The Four Carlos of the 17th Century, 184
Pietro Galletti and the Bolognese Students, 184
AEtion's Picture of the Nuptials of Alexander and Roxana, 184
Ageladas, 185
The Porticos of Agaptos, 185
The Group of Niobe and her Children, 185
Statue of the Fighting Gladiator, 187
The Group of Laocooen in the Vatican, 187
Michael Angelo's Opinion of the Laocooen, 190
Discovery of the Laocooen, 190
Sir John Soane, 191
Soane's Liberality and Public Munificence, 192
The Belzoni Sarcophagus, 194
Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata," 195
George Morland, 197
Morland's Early Talent 198
Morland's Early Fame, 199
Morland's Mental and Moral Education under an Unnatural Parent, 200
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