Anecdotes of Painters Volume III

Anecdotes of Painters Volume III

Shearjashub Spooner, american physician and writer (1809-1859)


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK

-02- VOLUME III. ANECDOTES OF PAINTERS

-03- EGYPTIAN ART

-04- EGYPTIAN OBELISKS

-05- THE BRITANNIA TUBULAR RAILWAY BRIDGE

-06- MODERN ROME

-07- ARCHIMEDES

-08- THE TRIALS OF GENIUS

-09- FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI

-10- DONATELLO

-11- DONATELLO AND MICHAEL ANGELO COMPARED

-12- CARRIERA ROSALBA

-13- ELIZABETH SIRANI

-14- RACHEL RUYSCH

-15- SIR ANTHONY VANDYCK

-16- WILLIAM VAN DE VELDE, THE ELDER

-17- WILLIAM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER

-18- NICHOLAS POUSSIN

-19- SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS' CRITIQUE ON POUSSIN

-20- REMBRANDT

-21- ANECDOTE OF SCHWARTS

-22- JACQUES CALLOT

-23- CALLOT'S PATRIOTISM

-24- INGENUITY OF ARTISTS

-25- A HINT TO JEWELERS

-26- CURIOUS PAINTINGS

-27- THE OLDEST OIL PAINTING EXTANT

-28- ADRIAN BROWER

-29- ROSA DA TIVOLI

-30- LUCA CAMBIASO'S FACILITY IN PAINTING

-31- RARITY OF FEMALE PORTRAITS IN SPAIN

-32- GERARD DOUW

-33- ALBERT DURER

-34- LUDOLPH BACKHUYSEN

-35- JOHN BAPTIST WEENIX, THE ELDER

-36- WEENIX'S FACILITY OF HAND

-37- JOHN BAPTIST WEENIX, THE YOUNGER

-38- JAN STEEN

-39- SIR ANTHONY MORE

-40- NAPOLEON'S LOVE OF ART

-41- SEVRES CHINA

-42- DISMANTLING OF THE LOUVRE

-43- REMOVAL OF THE VENETIAN HORSES FROM PARIS

-44- REMOVAL OF THE STATUE OF NAPOLEON FROM THE PLACE VENDOME

-45- THE MUSEE FRANCAIS AND THE MUSEE ROYAL

-46- BOYDELL'S SHAKSPEARE GALLERY

-47- BRIEF SKETCH OF A PLAN FOR AN AMERICAN NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

-48- FOOTNOTES