Category: History - European
Art in Italy and Greece--The Leading Phase of Culture--Æsthetic Type of Literature--Painting the Supreme Italian Art--Its Task in the Renaissance--Christian and Classical Traditions--Sculpture for the Ancients--Painting for the Romance Nations--Mediaeval Faith and Superstition...
Art in Italy and Greece--The Leading Phase of Culture--Æsthetic Type of Literature--Painting the Supreme Italian Art--Its Task in the Renaissance--Christian and Classical Tradit...
2. Chapter 2Architecture of Mediaeval Italy--Milan, Genoa, Venice--The Despots as Builders--Diversity of Styles--Local Influences--Lombard, Tuscan, Romanesque, Gothic--Italian want of feeli...
3. Chapter 3Niccola Pisano--Obscurity of the Sources for a History of Early Italian Sculpture--Vasari's Legend of Pisano--Deposition from the Cross at Lucca--Study of Nature and the Antique...
4. Chapter 4Distribution of Artistic Gifts in Italy--Florence and Venice --Classification by Schools--Stages in the Evolution of Painting--Cimabue --The Rucellai Madonna--Giotto--His widesp...
5. Chapter 5Mediaeval Motives exhausted--New Impulse toward Technical Perfection--Naturalists in Painting--Intermediate Achievement needed for the Great Age of Art--Positive Spirit of the F...
6. Chapter 6Two Periods in the True Renaissance--Andrea Mantegna--His Statuesque Design--His Naturalism--Roman Inspiration--Triumph of Julius Caesar--Bas-reliefs--Luca Signorelli--The Precu...
7. Chapter 7Painting bloomed late in Venice--Conditions offered by Venice to Art--Shelley and Pietro Aretino--Political Circumstances of Venice--Comparison with Florence--The Ducal Palace--...
8. Chapter 8Contrast of Michael Angelo and Cellini--Parentage and Boyhood of Michael Angelo--Work with Ghirlandajo--Gardens of S. Marco--The Medicean Circle--Early Essays in Sculpture--Visi...
9. Chapter 9His Fame--His Autobiography--Its Value for the Student of History, Manners, and Character in the Renaissance--Birth, Parentage, and Boyhood--Flute-playing--Apprenticeship to Mar...
10. Chapter 10Full Development and Decline of Painting--Exhaustion of the old Motives--Relation of Lionardo to his Pupils--His Legacy to the Lombard School--Bernardino Luini--Gaudenzio Ferrar...
11. Chapter 11Art in Italy and Greece--The Leading Phase of Culture--Æsthetic Type of Literature--Painting the Supreme Italian Art--Its Task in the Renaissance--Christian and Classical Tradit...
12. Chapter 12Architecture of Mediaeval Italy--Milan, Genoa, Venice--The Despots as Builders--Diversity of Styles--Local Influences--Lombard, Tuscan, Romanesque, Gothic--Italian want of feeli...
13. Chapter 13Niccola Pisano--Obscurity of the Sources for a History of Early Italian Sculpture--Vasari's Legend of Pisano--Deposition from the Cross at Lucca--Study of Nature and the Antique...
14. Chapter 14Distribution of Artistic Gifts in Italy--Florence and Venice --Classification by Schools--Stages in the Evolution of Painting--Cimabue --The Rucellai Madonna--Giotto--His widesp...
15. Chapter 15Mediaeval Motives exhausted--New Impulse toward Technical Perfection--Naturalists in Painting--Intermediate Achievement needed for the Great Age of Art--Positive Spirit of the F...
16. Chapter 16Two Periods in the True Renaissance--Andrea Mantegna--His Statuesque Design--His Naturalism--Roman Inspiration--Triumph of Julius Caesar--Bas-reliefs--Luca Signorelli--The Precu...
17. Chapter 17Painting bloomed late in Venice--Conditions offered by Venice to Art--Shelley and Pietro Aretino--Political circumstances of Venice--Comparison with Florence--The Ducal Palace--...
18. Chapter 18Contrast of Michael Angelo and Cellini--Parentage and Boyhood of Michael Angelo--Work with Ghirlandajo--Gardens of S. Marco--The Medicean Circle--Early Essays in Sculpture--Visi...
19. Chapter 19His Fame--His Autobiography--Its Value for the Student of History, Manners, and Character, in the Renaissance--Birth, Parentage, and Boyhood--Flute-playing--Apprenticeship to Ma...
20. Chapter 20Full Development and Decline of Painting--Exhaustion of the old Motives--Relation of Lionardo to his Pupils--His Legacy to the Lombard School--Bernardino Luini--Gaudenzio Ferrar...