A Text-Book of the History of Painting - The Original Classic Edition

The limited time given to the study of art in the average educational institution has not only dictated the condensed style of the volumes, but has limited their scope of matter to the general features of art history. Archæological discussions on special subjects and æsthetic theories have been avoided. The main facts of history as settled by the best authorities are given. <p> TABLE OF CONTENTS: General Bibliography xv, Introduction xvii CHAPTER I. Egyptian Painting 1, CHAPTER II. Chaldæo-Assyrian, Persian, Phœnician, Cypriote, and Asia Minor Painting 10, CHAPTER III. Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Painting 21, CHAPTER IV. Italian Painting-Early Christian and Mediæval Period, 200-1250 36, CHAPTER V. Italian Painting-Gothic Period, 1250-1400 47, CHAPTER VI. Italian Painting-Early Renaissance, 1400-1500 57, CHAPTER VII. Italian Painting-Early Renaissance, 1400-1500, Continued 73, CHAPTER VIII. Italian Painting-High Renaissance, 1500-1600 86, CHAPTER IX. Italian Painting-High Renaissance, 1500-1600, Continued 99, CHAPTER X. Italian Painting-High Renaissance, 1500-1600, Continued 110, CHAPTER XI. Italian Painting-The Decadence and Modern Work, 1600-1894 122, CHAPTER XII. French Painting-Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries 132, CHAPTER XIII. French Painting-Nineteenth Century 143, CHAPTER XIV. French Painting-Nineteenth Century, Continued 156, CHAPTER XV. Spanish Painting 172, CHAPTER XVI. Flemish Painting 186, CHAPTER XVII. Dutch Painting 203, CHAPTER XVIII. German Painting 223, CHAPTER XIX. British Painting 241, CHAPTER XX., American Painting 260, Postscript 276, Index 279 <p> This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p> The first important records of this art are met with in Egypt; but before the Egyptian civilization the men of the early ages probably used color in ornamentation and decoration, and they certainly scratched the outlines of men and animals upon bone and slate. <p> …Substantially the same method of painting was used upon other materials, such as wood, mummy cartonnage, papyrus; and in all its thousands of years of existence Egyptian painting never advanced upon or varied to any extent this one method of work. <p> …EXTANT PAINTINGS: The temples, palaces, and tombs of Egypt still reveal Egyptian painting in almost as perfect a state as when originally executed; the Ghizeh Museum has many fine examples; and there are numerous examples in the museums at Turin, Paris, Berlin, London, New York, and Boston.