Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 1 of 3) — John Shaqi
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 1 of 3)Spooner, Shearjashub
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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 1 of 3)
Spooner, Shearjashub
Art -- Anecdotes; Artists -- Anecdotes
Robert Fulton, 122
An Exalted Mind and True Patriot, 123
Gilbert Charles Stuart, 124
Stuart goes to London, 125
Stuart as Organist, 126
Stuart’s Introduction to West, 126
Stuart and West, 128
Stuart’s Scholarship, 131
Stuart’s Rule of the Payment of Half-Price at the
First Sitting, 131
Stuart’s Powers of Perception, 132
Stuart’s Conversational Powers, 133
Stuart in Ireland, 136
Stuart’s Return to America, 137
Stuart and Washington, 137
Stuart’s Last Picture, 138
Stuart’s Reputation, 139
Stuart’s Drawing, 139
Stuart a Punster, 140
Stuart born in a Snuff-Mill, 140
Stuart’s Nose, 140
Stuart’s Sitters, 141
Stuart’s Mark, 142
Stuart and his Dog, 142
The Temple of Diana at Ephesus, 144
The Dying Gladiator, 144
Fabius Maximus, 145
Love of the Arts among the Romans, 146
Comparative Merits of the Venus de Medici and the
Venus Victrix, 147
The Effect of Painting on the Mind, 147
Pausias, 148
The Garland Twiner, 148
Protogenes, the great Rhodian Painter, 149
Parrhasius, 150
The Demos, and other Works of Parrhasius, 150
Parrhasius and the Olynthian Captive, 151
The Vanity of Parrhasius, 152
The Invention of the Corinthian Capital, 152
The Invention of Sculpture, 153
Praxiteles, 154
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