The Book of Art for Young PeopleConway, Agnes Ethel
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The Book of Art for Young People
Conway, Agnes Ethel
Art -- Juvenile literature; Painting
Landscape painting, beginning of, 50
Lely, Sir Peter, 131
Leonardo da Vinci, 80-81, 89-90, 110
compared with Durer, 107
'Les Meninas,' 162
Liber Studiorum, 183
Louis, Duke of Anjou, 40
Luini, Bernardino, 90-91
'Madonna of the Rocks,' 90
'Man in Armour,' 126-127
Mantegna, 69, 70, 102
'Triumphs of Caesar,' 148
Maria Theresa, 163
Marie de Medicis, 143
Mary Stuart, 149-150
Medieval detail, 37
coronation, solemnity of, 34
guilds, 44
Michelangelo, 80
influence on Reynolds, 169, 172
influence on Tintoret, 99
Millais, 190
Milton, 83
More, Sir Thomas, 109, 110
Mosque of Omar, 49
Newbolt, Henry, 187
'Night Watch,' Rembrandt's, 123-124
'Norham Castle,' 183
'Norwich School,' 178
'Pallas Athene,' 127
Perspective, 66
absence of, 55
Hubert's improvement in, 55
mastery of, in Renaissance, 67
Perugino, 79
Peter de Hoogh, 133-136
Philip IV., 154, 155
Philip the Bold, 40, 41
Philip the Good, 52
Photographs and pictures, the difference between them, 4
Portraiture, in the fifteenth century, growth of, 60
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 189 _et seq._
'Rain, Steam, and Speed,' 184
Raphael, 78-89, 140
cartoons, in collection of Charles I., 147
comparison with Giorgione, 94, 97
influence on Velasquez, 159
'Red Ridinghood,' 197
Reformation, effect of on art, 108
Rembrandt, 118-132, 135
'Anatomy,' 122, 157
compared with Peter de Hoogh, 134
compared with Van Dyck, 151
compared with Velasquez, 156
landscapes of, 139
Syndics, 130
Revelations, 57, 74
Revival of learning, 65
Reynolds, 169-175
Richard II., portrait of, 29 _et seq._
diptych, 47, 50, 139, 197
diptych in collection of Charles I., 147
Roger van der Weyden, 61
Rome, influence on Turner, 181
Rossetti, 190 _et seq._
Royal Academy, 174
Rubens, 138, 143-145
friendship with Velasquez, 157
on Charles I., 147
Ruysdael, 141
Santi, Giovanni, 79
St. Catherine, Raphael's, 85
burial of, 90
St. Catherine of Siena, 17
St. Edmund, 33
St. Francis of Assisi, 17, 21
preaching to the birds, 4, 23, 50
St. George slaying the dragon, 100-102
St. Jerome's cell, 6, 63-69
lion of, 142
St. Matthew, 46
Saskia, 121, 122 _et seq._
Savonarola, 73-76
Sistine Madonna, 85
Spain, greatness of, in sixteenth century, 153
Stained-glass windows, influence of in the fourteenth century, 36
Steen, Jan, 137, 167
'Strayed Sheep,' 191
'Surrender of Breda,' 159
Tenniel, 2
Tennyson, portrait of, 195
Terborch, 137
'Three Maries,' 46-59
compared with Botticelli's 'Nativity,' 77
compared with Raphael's 'Knight's Dream,' 85
treatment of atmosphere in, 140
Timoteo Viti, 82
Tintoret, 99-102
influence on Velasquez, 159
Titian, 98, 99, 140, 159
Turner, 176-187
sunsets of, 9
'Ulysses deriding Polyphemus,' 184
Umbrian landscape, beauty of, 79
'Valparaiso,' 193
Van Dyck, 145-152
compared with Reynolds, 170 _et seq._
comparison with Velasquez, 161
Van Eyck's influence in Germany, 105
Vasari, 23, 25
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