Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8: A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
History
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8: A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
Biography
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, _Edmund Gosse_, 287
RUBENS, _Mrs. Lee_, 236
THORWALDSEN, _Hans Christian Andersen_, 258
TITIAN, _Giorgio Vasari_, 226
GIUSEPPE VERDI, 342
RICHARD WAGNER, _Franklin Peterson, Mus. Bac._, 338
BENJAMIN WEST, _Martha J. Lamb_, 254
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME VIII.
PHOTOGRAVURES
ILLUSTRATION ARTIST TO FACE
PAGE
SARAH BERNHARDT AS CLEOPATRA, _Georges Clairin_ _Frontispiece_
MICHAEL ANGELO AND VITTORIA COLONNA, _Hermann Schneider_ 220
ALBERT DÜRER VISITS HANS SACHS, _Richard Gross_ 234
MARIE DE MEDICI AT THE HOUSE OF
RUBENS, _Florent Willems_ 240
CONNOISSEURS AT REMBRANDT'S STUDIO, _Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel_ 244
MEISSONIER'S ATELIER, _Georges Bretegnier_ 272
MOZART SINGING HIS REQUIEM, _Thomas W. Shields_ 314
AN ANECDOTE ABOUT BEETHOVEN, _Paul Leyendecker_ 322
FRANZ LISZT, _Fortuné-Joseph-Seraphin
Layraud_ 334
WAGNER AND HIS FRIENDS, _Wilhelm Beckmann_ 340
RACHEL AS THE MUSE OF GREEK TRAGEDY, _Jean Léon Gérôme_ 368
JOE JEFFERSON AS BOB ACRES, _From life_ 376
WOOD-ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES
RAPHAEL INTRODUCED TO DA VINCI, _Brune Pagès_ 212
LEO X. AT RAPHAEL'S BIER, _Pietro Michis_ 224
A FÊTE AT THE HOUSE OF TITIAN, _F. Kraus_ 228
ALBERT DÜRER'S WEDDING, _A. Bodenmüller_ 232
HOGARTH SKETCHING THE HIGHWAY OF
QUEENBOROUGH, 248
BENJAMIN WEST, PRESIDENT OF THE
ROYAL ACADEMY, _Sir Thomas Lawrence_ 258
ROSA BONHEUR, _E. Dubufe_ 278
HANDEL'S RIVER-CONCERT FOR GEORGE I., _A. Hamman_ 304
HAYDN COMPOSING HIS "CREATION," _A. Hamman_ 318
PAGANINI IN PRISON, _Louis Boulanger_ 326
GARRICK AS RICHARD III., _William Hogarth_ 346
FORREST AS METAMORA, _From Photograph_ 352
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN AS MRS. HALLER, _Watkins_ 360
PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS
PHIDIAS[1]
[Footnote 1: Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.]
By CLARENCE COOK
(ABOUT 500-432 B.C.)
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