A Text-Book of the History of Painting

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: _American Art Review_; Amory, _Life of Copley_; _The Art Review_; Benjamin, _Contemporary Art in America_; _Century Magazine_; Caffin, _American Painters_; Cl...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: As before Fromentin, (Waagen's) Kügler; Amand-Durand, _OEuvre de Rembrandt_; _Archief voor Nederlandsche Kunst-geschiedenis_; Blanc, _OEuvre de Rembrandt_; Bo...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Armstrong, _Sir Henry Raeburn_; Armstrong, _Gainsborough_; Armstrong, _Sir Joshua Reynolds_; Burton, _Catalogue of Pictures in National Gallery_; Chesneau, _L...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Busscher, _Recherches sur les Peintres Gantois_; Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _Early Flemish Painters_; Cust, _Van Dyck_; Dehaisnes, _L'Art dans la Flandre_; Du Ja...

THE LANDSCAPE PAINTERS: The influence of either the classic or romantic example may be traced in almost all of the French painting of this century. The opposed teachings find re...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Colvin, _A. Durer, his Teachers, his Rivals, and his Scholars_; Eye, _Leben und Werke Albrecht Durers_; Förster, _Peter von Cornelius_; Förster, _Geschichte d...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: As before, Burckhardt, Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Eastlake, Lafenestre, Lanzi, Habich, Lacroix, Mantz, Morelli, Burton, Rumohr, Stillman, Vasari; also Crowe and...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Baumeister, _Denkmäler des klassischen Altertums_--article "_Malerei_;" Birch, _History of Ancient Pottery_; Brunn, _Geschichte der griechischen Künstler_; Co...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Bermudez, _Diccionario de las Bellas Artes en España_; Davillier, _Mémoire de Velasquez_; Davillier, _Fortuny_; Eusebi, _Los Differentes Escuelas de Pintura_;...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: As before, Stranahan, _et al._; also Ballière, _Henri Regnault_; Blanc, _Les Artistes de mon Temps_; Blanc, _Histoire des Peintres français au XIX^{me} Siècle...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Those on Italian art before mentioned, and also, Berenson, _Lorenzo Lotto_; Clement, _Michel Ange, L. da Vinci, Raphael_; Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _Titian_; sa...

PADUAN SCHOOL: It was at Padua in the north that the influence of the classic marbles made itself strongly apparent. Umbria remained true to the religious sentiment, Florence en...

THE VENETIAN SCHOOL: It was at Venice and with the Venetian painters of the sixteenth century that a new art-motive was finally and fully adopted. This art-motive was not religi...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Bayet, _L'Art Byzantin_; Bennett, _Christian Archæology_; Bosio, _La Roma Sotterranea_; Burckhardt, _The Cicerone, an Art Guide to Painting in Italy, ed. by C...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: As before, Burckhardt, Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Eastlake, Lafenestre, Lanzi, Lindsay, Reber; also Burton, _Catalogue of Pictures in the National Gallery, Londo...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Amorini, _Vita del celebre pittore Francesco Primaticcio_; Berger, _Histoire de l'École Française de Peinture au XVII^{me} Siècle_; Bland, _Les Peintres des f...

LEONARDO DA VINCI AND THE MILANESE: The third person in the great Florentine trinity of painters was Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the other two being Michael Angelo and Raphae...

THE DECLINE: An art movement in history seems like a wave that rises to a height, then breaks, falls, and parts of it are caught up from beneath to help form the strength of a n...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Babelon, _Manual of Oriental Antiquities_; Botta, _Monument de Ninive_; Budge, _Babylonian Life and History_; Duncker, _History of Antiquity_; Layard, _Nineve...

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Brugsch, _History of Egypt under the Pharaohs_; Budge, _Dwellers on the Nile_; Duncker, _History of Antiquity; Egypt Exploration Fund Memoirs_; Ely, _Manual o...

(This includes the leading accessible works that treat of painting in general. For works on special periods or schools, see the bibliographical references at the head of each ch...