Category: History - Other
PROLEGOMENA. PAGE The phenomena of destruction and combination in Nature--The difference between the sublime and beautiful--Without man no beauty--Science, industry, and art--The utilitarian principle--Choice--The realistic, historical, and critical points of view in art--Crys...
Art has appeared to us till now under peculiar circumstances. We have seen it in Asia and Africa, and in both parts of the world it represented the uninterrupted struggle of hum...
16. CHAPTER V.Our tree of art, with its manifold branches, flowers, and fruits, rooted in the unknown origin of the three great groups of humanity, shows that the Negro, or black branch, had...
21. CHAPTER X.The Greeks, from a poetical, artistic, and esthetical, and the Romans, from a social, legal, and political point of view, are still our masters. Historical art-critics, and a ce...
22. CHAPTER XI.Historically and philosophically, from the point of view of whatever religious denomination; in the eyes of the devout believer, as well as in the eyes of the sceptic; by the th...
17. CHAPTER VI.‘Anything capable of uniting many souls--is _sacred_,’ says Goethe. The sacredness of religious tenets or monumental buildings is at once explained by this. To unite humanity in...
18. CHAPTER VII.Little, or rather nothing, can properly be said of Hebrew art, for it is a non-entity. The Hebrews are a mixed race. They assert themselves to be of the Semitic group of mankind...
12. CHAPTER I.Gazing at the heavens on a starry night, we see, in addition to myriads of sparkling worlds floating in the air, a great quantity of nebulæ--either decayed systems of worlds, or...
15. CHAPTER IV.The Chinese undoubtedly reached a high degree of culture earlier than all the historical nations, and still they are in a state of civilised infancy. They possess reliable histo...
20. CHAPTER IX.The first question that here suggests itself is, who were the Etruskans? Their name Tuskan, from Tuisko, points at once to an Aryan branch of Teutonic race. But ethnologists dif...
23. vivid. Humanity lives still in an ineffaceable longing and a burningdesire to regain that period. Like diamonds dropped in unknown ages in small crystallisations into the sand of rivers, the works of Greece appear in the stream of time, serving...
14. CHAPTER III.Art, like nature, is its own interpreter. A well-finished pattern has not preceded a more simple one; circular ornamentations are of a later date than ornamentations with straig...
13. CHAPTER II.Man is placed on this globe as a radius,--a detached radius. The axis of his body is part of the diameter of the earth, and divides him into symmetrical halves. A line, that pas...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Meshiah (humanity) was first freed by the Greeks in form, and by Christ in spirit--Aspect of nature--India, Egypt, and Persia as the component parts of Greek development-- The d...
5. CHAPTER V.The Aryans on this and the other side of the Himâlâyan Mountains--Science and art the offsprings of religion-- Endeavours to express abstract phenomena in concrete signs--The sy...
11. CHAPTER XI.North and south of our globe--Buddhism and Christianity-- Christ’s divine teachings--Romanesque and Byzantine art-forms--Symbols, allegories, emblems, and myths-- Catacombs at R...
7. CHAPTER VII.The Hebrews are a mixed race--Social and political condition of the Jews during 6,000 years--Description of the country and aspect of nature--Rabbi Manasseh Ben Israel-- Archite...
3. CHAPTER III.Traces of man’s inventive and decorative force in by-gone ages--Classification of pre-historic products--The old stone age--The new stone age--The bronze and iron ages-- Man’s f...
4. CHAPTER IV.The Chinese language--The holy books of the Chinese--The sacred number five--Principle of ornamentation--Their towns--The wall with the Chinese not yet a completing part of the...
6. CHAPTER VI.The sphinx the emblem of Egyptian art--Long and short chronologists--Lepsius and his list of Egyptian dynasties-- State of Egypt under Menes, who ruled 3892 B.C., according to L...
10. CHAPTER X.Characteristic differences between Greeks and Romans--The triple theocracy of Rome--The mythical period of the seven kings of Rome--Rome as republic--Roman mythology--Rome under...
1. CHAPTER I.PROLEGOMENA. PAGE The phenomena of destruction and combination in Nature--The difference between the sublime and beautiful--Without man no beauty--Science, industry, and art--Th...
9. CHAPTER IX.The first settlers in Etruria--Their gods of the first and second orders--The ritual of thunder--Temples and tombs-- Subdivision of tombs--Cinerary chests--Excavations at Prænes...
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