# Six Centuries of Painting

Author: Davies, Randall, 1866-1946

Genre: Category: History - European

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29532

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Six+Centuries+of+Painting+Davies&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

So far as it concerns pictures painted upon panel or canvas in tempera or oils, the history of painting begins with Cimabue, who worked in Florence during the latter half of the thirteenth century. That the art was practised in much earlier times may readily be admitted, and the life-like portraits in the vestibule at the National Gallery taken from Greek tombs of the second or third century are sufficient proofs of it; but for the origin of painting as we are now generally accustomed to understand the term we need go no further back than to Cimabue and his contemporaries, from whose time the art has uninterruptedly developed throughout Europe until the present day.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/six-centuries-of-painting-29532/chapters/26/index.md)