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PAGE ANCIENT PAINTING, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE CHRISTIAN ERA, 1 EGYPT, 3 ASSYRIA, 9 BABYLON, 11 ANCIENT GREECE AND ITALY, 13 MOSAICS, 34 PAINTINGS ON STONE, 36 VASE-PAINTING, 36
PAGE ANCIENT PAINTING, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE CHRISTIAN ERA, 1 EGYPT, 3 ASSYRIA, 9 BABYLON, 11 ANCIENT GREECE AND ITALY, 13 MOSAICS, 34 PAINTINGS ON STONE, 36 VASE-PAINT...
2. Chapter 23. Chapter 34. Chapter 4PAGE 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 Ip...
5. Chapter 5In speaking of art we often contrast the useful or mechanical arts with the Fine Arts; by these terms we denote the difference between the arts which are used in making such thi...
6. Chapter 6The Middle Ages extend from the latter part of the fifth century to the time of the Renaissance, or about the fifteenth century. The painting of this period has little to attrac...
7. Chapter 7The reawakening of Art in Italy which followed the darkness of the Middle Ages, dates from about the beginning of the fifteenth century and is called the Renaissance. The Italia...
8. Chapter 8Flanders formerly embraced a larger part of Belgium than is contained in the present Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders. It also covered a portion of Holland and some t...
9. Chapter 9Spanish painting had its birth during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, and may be said to have been derived from Italy, through the influence of the Italian painters who wen...
10. Chapter 10The French school of painting does not date earlier than the sixteenth century, and the painters of that time were few in number, and little is known of them. Before the time wh...
11. Chapter 11In early days in England there were miniature-painters, and in the last half of the sixteenth century there were some very important English painters of this kind. Before the da...