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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
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- ANECDOTES
- OF
- PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS
- Sculptors and Architects,
- AND
- CURIOSITIES OF ART.
- BY
- BY
- AND
- CURIOSITIES OF ART.
- BY
- BY
- S. SPOONER, M. D.,
- IN THREE VOLUMES.
- VOL. II.
- IN THREE VOLUMES.
- VOL. II.
- CONTENTS.
- TITIAN,—SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
- TITIAN'S MANNERS.
- TITIAN'S WORKS.
- TITIAN'S IMITATORS.
- TITIAN'S VENUS AND ADONIS.
- TITIAN AND THE EMPEROR CHARLES V.
- TITIAN AND PHILIP II.
- TITIAN'S LAST SUPPER AND EL MUDO.
- TITIAN'S OLD AGE.
- MONUMENT TO TITIAN.
- HORACE VERNET.
- THE COLOSSEUM.
- NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS.
- DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE EXHUMED AT NIMROUD.
- ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE ARCH.
- ANTIQUITIES OF HERCULANEUM, POMPEII, AND STABIÆ.
- ANCIENT FRESCO AND MOSAIC PAINTING.
- MOSAIC OF THE BATTLE OF PLATÆA.
- THE ALDOBRANDINI WEDDING.
- THE PORTLAND VASE.
- ANCIENT PICTURES OF GLASS.
- HENRY FUSELI—HIS BIRTH.
- FUSELI'S EARLY LOVE OF ART.
- FUSELI'S LITERARY AND POETICAL TASTE.
- FUSELI, LAVATER, AND THE UNJUST MAGISTRATE.
- FUSELI'S TRAVELS, AND HIS LITERARY DISTINCTION.
- FUSELI'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON.
- FUSELI'S CHANGE FROM LITERATURE TO PAINTING.
- FUSELI'S SOJOURN IN ITALY.
- FUSELI'S "NIGHTMARE."
- FUSELI'S "ŒDIPUS AND HIS DAUGHTERS."
- FUSELI AND THE SHAKSPEARE GALLERY.
- FUSELI'S "HAMLET'S GHOST."
- FUSELI'S "TITANIA."
- FUSELI'S ELECTION AS A ROYAL ACADEMICIAN.
- FUSELI AND HORACE WALPOLE.
- FUSELI AND THE BANKER COUTTS.
- FUSELI AND PROF. PORSON.
- FUSELI'S METHOD OF GIVING VENT TO HIS PASSION.
- FUSELI'S LOVE FOR TERRIFIC SUBJECTS.
- FUSELI'S AND LAWRENCE'S PICTURES FROM THE "TEMPEST."
- FUSELI'S ESTIMATE OF REYNOLDS' ABILITIES IN HISTORICAL PAINTING.
- FUSELI AND LAWRENCE.
- FUSELI AS KEEPER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
- FUSELI'S JESTS AND ODDITIES WITH THE STUDENTS OF THE ACADEMY.
- FUSELI'S SARCASMS ON NORTHCOTE.
- FUSELI'S' SARCASMS ON VARIOUS RIVAL ARTISTS.
- FUSELI'S RETORTS.
- FUSELI'S SUGGESTION OF AN EMBLEM OF ETERNITY
- FUSELI'S REPORT IN MR. COUTTS' BANKING HOUSE.
- FUSELI'S GENERAL SARCASMS ON LANDSCAPE AND PORTRAIT PAINTERS.
- FUSELI'S OPINION OF HIS OWN ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS.
- FUSELI'S PRIVATE HABITS.
- FUSELI'S WIFE'S METHOD OF CURING HIS FITS OF DESPONDENCY.
- FUSELI'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE, HIS SARCASTIC DISPOSITION, AND QUICK TEMPER.
- FUSELI'S NEAR SIGHT.
- FUSELI'S POPULARITY.
- FUSELI'S ARTISTIC MERITS.
- FUSELI'S MILTON GALLERY, THE CHARACTER OF HIS WORKS, AND THE PERMANENCY OF HIS FAME.
- SALVATOR ROSA.
- SALVATOR ROSA AND CAV. LANFRANCO.
- SALVATOR ROSA AT ROME AND FLORENCE.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S RETURN TO ROME.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S SUBJECTS.
- FLAGELLATION OF SALVATOR ROSA.
- SALVATOR ROSA AND THE HIGGLING PRINCE.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S OPINION OF HIS OWN WORKS.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S BANDITTI.
- SALVATOR ROSA AND MASSANIELLO.
- SALVATOR ROSA AND CARDINAL SFORZA.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S MANIFESTO CONCERNING HIS SATIRICAL PICTURE LA FORTUNA.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S BANISHMENT FROM ROME.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S WIT.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S RECEPTION AT FLORENCE.
- HISTRIONIC POWERS OF SALVATOR ROSA.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S RECEPTION AT THE PALAZZO PITTI.
- SATIRES OF SALVATOR ROSA.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S HARPSICHORD.
- RARE PORTRAIT BY SALVATOR ROSA.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S RETURN TO ROME.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S LOVE OF MAGNIFICENCE.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S LAST WORKS.
- SALVATOR ROSA'S DESIRE TO BE CONSIDERED AN HISTORICAL PAINTER.
- DON MARIO GHIGI, HIS PHYSICIAN, AND SALVATOR ROSA.
- DEATH OF SALVATOR ROSA.
- DOMENICHINO.
- THE DULLNESS OF DOMENICHINO IN YOUTH.
- DOMENICHINO'S SCOURGING OF ST. ANDREW.
- THE COMMUNION OF ST. JEROME.
- DOMENICHINO'S ENEMIES AT ROME.
- DECISION OF POSTERITY ON THE MERITS OF DOMENICHINO.
- PROOF OF THE MERITS OF DOMENICHINO.
- DOMENICHINO'S CARICATURES.
- INTRIGUES OF THE NEAPOLITAN TRIUMVIRATE OF PAINTERS.
- GIUSEPPE RIBERA, CALLED IL SPAGNOLETTO—HIS EARLY POVERTY AND INDUSTRY.
- RIBERA'S MARRIAGE.
- RIBERA'S RISE TO EMINENCE.
- RIBERA'S DISCOVERY OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE.
- RIBERA'S SUBJECTS.
- RIBERA'S DISPOSITION.
- SINGULAR PICTORIAL ILLUSIONS.
- RAFFAELLE'S SKILL IN PORTRAITS.
- JACOPO DA PONTE.
- GIOVANNI ROSA.
- CAV. GIOVANNI CONTARINI.
- GUERCINO'S POWER OF RELIEF.
- BERNAZZANO.
- INVENTION OF OIL PAINTING.
- FORESHORTENING.
- METHOD OF TRANSFERRING PAINTINGS FROM WALLS AND PANELS TO CANVASS.
- WORKS IN SCAGLIOLA.
- THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAINTING.
- GOLDEN AGE OF THE FINE ARTS IN ANCIENT ROME.
- NERO'S GOLDEN PALACE.
- NAMES OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTS DESIGNATED BY REPTILES.
- TRIUMPHAL ARCHES.
- STATUE OF POMPEY THE GREAT.
- OF ANTIQUE SCULPTURES IN ROME.
- ANCIENT MAP OF ROME.
- JULIAN THE APOSTATE.
- THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS.
- MANDROCLES' BRIDGE ACROSS THE BOSPHORUS.
- THE COLOSSUS OF THE SUN AT RHODES.
- STATUES AND PAINTINGS AT RHODES.
- SOSTRATUS' LIGHT-HOUSE ON THE ISLE OF PHAROS.
- DINOCRATES' PLAN FOR CUTTING MOUNT ATHOS INTO A STATUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
- POPE'S IDEA OF FORMING MOUNT ATHOS INTO A STATUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
- TEMPLE WITH AN IRON STATUE SUSPENDED IN THE AIR BY LOADSTONE.
- THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS AT ATHENS.
- THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS.
- THE ELGIN MARBLES.
- ODEON, OR ODEUM.
- PERPETUAL LAMPS.
- THE SKULL OF RAFFAELLE.
- THE FOUR FINEST PICTURES IN ROME.
- THE FOUR CARLOS OF THE 17TH CENTURY.
- PIETRO GALLETTI AND THE BOLOGNESE STUDENTS.
- ÆTION'S PICTURE OF THE NUPTIALS OF ALEXANDER AND ROXANA.
- AGELADAS.
- THE PORTICOS OF AGAPTOS.
- THE GROUP OF NIOBE AND HER CHILDREN.
- STATUE OF THE FIGHTING GLADIATOR.
- THE GROUP OF LAOCOÖN IN THE VATICAN.
- MICHAEL ANGELO'S OPINION OF THE LAOCOÖN.
- DISCOVERY OF THE LAOCOÖN.
- SIR JOHN SOANE.
- SOANE'S LIBERALITY AND PUBLIC MUNIFICENCE.
- THE BELZONI SARCOPHAGUS.
- TASSO'S "GERUSALEMME LIBERATA."
- GEORGE MORLAND.
- MORLAND'S EARLY TALENT.
- MORLAND'S EARLY FAME.
- MORLAND'S MENTAL AND MORAL EDUCATION, UNDER AN UNNATURAL PARENT.
- MORLAND'S ESCAPE FROM THE THRALDOM OF HIS FATHER.
- MORLAND'S MARRIAGE, AND TEMPORARY REFORM.
- MORLAND'S SOCIAL POSITION.
- AN UNPLEASANT DILEMMA.
- MORLAND AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
- A NOVEL MODE OF FULFILLING COMMISSIONS.
- HASSELL'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH MORLAND.
- MORLAND'S DRAWINGS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
- MORLAND'S FREAKS.
- A JOKE ON MORLAND.
- MORLAND'S APPREHENSION AS A SPY.
- MORLAND'S "SIGN OF THE BLACK BULL."
- MORLAND AND THE PAWNBROKER.
- MORLAND'S IDEA OF A BARONETCY.
- MORLAND'S ARTISTIC MERIT.
- CHARLES JERVAS.
- JERVAS THE INSTRUCTOR OF POPE.
- JERVAS AND DR. ARBUTHNOT.
- JERVAS' VANITY.
- HOLBEIN AND THE FLY.
- HOLBEIN'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.
- HENRY VIII.'S OPINION OF HOLBEIN.
- HOLBEIN'S PORTRAIT OF THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF MILAN.
- HOLBEIN'S FLATTERY IN PORTRAITS—A WARNING TO PAINTERS.
- HOLBEIN'S PORTRAIT OF CRATZER.
- HOLBEIN'S PORTRAITS OF SIR THOMAS MORE AND FAMILY.
- SIR JOHN VANBRUGH AND HIS CRITICS.
- ANECDOTE OF THE ENGLISH PAINTER JAMES SEYMOUR.
- PRECOCITY OF LUCA GIORDANO.
- GIORDANO'S ENTHUSIASM.
- LUCA FA PRESTO.
- GIORDANO'S SKILL IN COPYING.
- GIORDANO'S SUCCESS AT NAPLES.
- GIORDANO, THE VICEROY, AND THE DUKE OF DIANO.
- GIORDANO INVITED TO FLORENCE.
- GIORDANO AND CARLO DOLCI.
- GIORDANO'S VISIT TO SPAIN.
- GIORDANO'S WORKS IN SPAIN.
- GIORDANO AT THE ESCURIAL.
- GIORDANO'S HABITS IN SPAIN.
- GIORDANO'S FIRST PICTURES PAINTED AT MADRID.
- GIORDANO A FAVORITE AT COURT.
- GIORDANO'S RETURN TO NAPLES.
- GIORDANO'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER.
- GIORDANO'S RICHES.
- GIORDANO'S WONDERFUL FACILITY OF HAND.
- GIORDANO'S POWERS OF IMITATION.
- GIORDANO'S FAME AND REPUTATION.
- REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF GIORDANO'S RAPIDITY OF EXECUTION.
- REVIVAL OF PAINTING IN ITALY.
- GIOVANNI CIMABUE.
- CIMABUE'S PASSION FOR ART.
- CIMABUE'S FAMOUS PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN.
- THE WORKS OF CIMABUE.
- DEATH OF CIMABUE.
- GIOTTO.
- GIOTTO'S ST. FRANCIS STIGMATA
- GIOTTO'S INVITATION TO ROME.
- GIOTTO'S LIVING MODEL.
- GIOTTO AND THE KING OF NAPLES.
- GIOTTO AND DANTE.
- DEATH OF GIOTTO.
- BUONAMICO BUFFALMACCO.
- BUFFALMACCO AND HIS MASTER.
- BUFFALMACCO AND THE NUNS OF THE CONVENT OF FAENZA.
- BUFFALMACCO AND THE NUNS' WINE.
- BUFFALMACCO, BISHOP GUIDO, AND HIS MONKEY.
- BUFFALMACCO'S TRICK ON THE BISHOP OF AREZZO.
- ORIGIN OF LABEL PAINTING.
- UTILITY OF ANCIENT WORKS.
- BUFFALMACCO AND THE COUNTRYMAN.
- BUFFALMACCO AND THE PEOPLE OF PERUGIA.
- BUFFALMACCO'S NOVEL METHOD OF ENFORCING PAYMENT.
- STEFANO FIORENTINO.
- GIOTTINO.
- PAOLO UCCELLO.
- UCCELLO'S ENTHUSIASM.
- UCCELLO AND THE MONKS OF SAN MINIATO.
- UCCELLO'S FIVE PORTRAITS.
- UCCELLO'S INCREDULITY OF ST. THOMAS.
- THE ITALIAN SCHOOLS OF PAINTING.
- CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET.
- VERNET'S PRECOCITY.
- VERNET'S ENTHUSIASM.
- VERNET AT ROME.
- VERNET'S "ALPHABET OF TONES."
- VERNET AND THE CONNOISSEUR.
- VERNET'S WORKS.
- VERNET'S PASSION FOR MUSIC
- VERNET'S OPINION OF HIS OWN MERITS.
- CURIOUS LETTER OF VERNET.
- CHARLES VERNET.
- ANECDOTE OF CHARLES VERNET.
- M. DE LASSON'S CARICATURE.
- FRANK HALS AND VANDYKE.
- Sculptors and Architects,
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