A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
by Clara Erskine Clement Waters
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PAGE Harp-player (from an Egyptian painting), 3 King Ramesses II. and his Sons Storming a Fortress (from Abousimbel), 5 Fragment of an Assyrian Tile-painting, 10 Sacrifice of Iphigenia (from a Pompeian wall-painting), 16 Etruscan Wall-painting, 22 Human Sacrifice Offered by Achilles to the Shade of Patroklos (from an Etruscan wall-painting), 24 The Aldobrandini Marriage (from a wall-painting in the Vatican), 26 Landscape Illustration to the Odyssey (from a wall-painting discovered on the Esquiline at Rome), 28 The Flight of Æneas (from a wall-painting), 30 Demeter Enthroned (from a Pompeian wa...
Chapters (269)
- A HISTORY OF ART
- FOR
- BEGINNERS AND STUDENTS PAINTING—SCULPTURE—ARCHITECTURE
- WITH
- COMPLETE INDEXES AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
- CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- SCULPTURE.
- CHAPTER I.
- ANCIENT SCULPTURE. EGYPT.
- ASSYRIA.
- CHAPTER II.
- GREEK SCULPTURE.
- CHAPTER III.
- ANCIENT ITALIAN SCULPTURE.
- CHAPTER IV.
- MEDIÆVAL SCULPTURE, FROM THE FIFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER V.
- ITALIAN SCULPTURE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER VI.
- SCULPTURE IN GERMANY, FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND SPAIN, FROM 1450 TO 1550.
- CHAPTER VII.
- ITALIAN SCULPTURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY—CELLINI, MICHAEL ANGELO, AND OTHERS.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- EUROPEAN SCULPTURE FROM MICHAEL ANGELO TO CANOVA.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CANOVA, THORWALDSEN, AND OTHER RECENT SCULPTORS.
- INDEX.
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