Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3) Papyras Classics

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)

by Shearjashub Spooner

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Contents

  1. Titian,—Sketch of His Life
  2. Titian's Manners
  3. Titian's Works
  4. Titian's Imitators
  5. Titian's Venus and Adonis
  6. Titian and the Emperor Charles V
  7. Titian and Philip II
  8. Titian's Last Supper and El Mudo
  9. Titian's Old Age
  10. Monument to Titian
  11. Horace Vernet
  12. The Colosseum
  13. Nineveh and Its Remains
  14. Description of a Palace Exhumed at Nimroud
  15. Origin and Antiquity of the Arch
  16. Antiquities of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiæ
  17. Ancient Fresco and Mosaic Painting
  18. Mosaic of the Battle of Platæa
  19. The Aldobrandini Wedding
  20. The Portland Vase
  21. Ancient Pictures of Glass
  22. Henry Fuseli—His Birth
  23. Fuseli's Early Love of Art
  24. Fuseli's Literary and Poetical Taste
  25. Fuseli, Lavater, and the Unjust Magistrate
  26. Fuseli's Travels, and His Literary Distinction
  27. Fuseli's Arrival in London
  28. Fuseli's Change from Literature to Painting
  29. Fuseli's Sojourn in Italy
  30. Fuseli's "Nightmare."
  31. Fuseli's "Œdipus and His Daughters."
  32. Fuseli and the Shakspeare Gallery
  33. Fuseli's "Hamlet's Ghost."
  34. Fuseli's "Titania."
  35. Fuseli's Election as a Royal Academician
  36. Fuseli and Horace Walpole
  37. Fuseli and the Banker Coutts
  38. Fuseli and Prof. Porson
  39. Fuseli's Method of Giving Vent to His Passion
  40. Fuseli's Love for Terrific Subjects
  41. Fuseli's and Lawrence's Pictures from the "Tempest."
  42. Fuseli's Estimate of Reynolds' Abilities in Historical Painting
  43. Fuseli and Lawrence
  44. Fuseli as Keeper of the Royal Academy
  45. Fuseli's Jests and Oddities with the Students of the Academy
  46. Fuseli's Sarcasms on Northcote
  47. Fuseli's' Sarcasms on Various Rival Artists
  48. Fuseli's Retorts
  49. Fuseli's Suggestion of an Emblem of Eternity
  50. Fuseli's Report in Mr. Coutts' Banking House
  51. Fuseli's General Sarcasms on Landscape and Portrait Painters
  52. Fuseli's Opinion of His Own Attainment of Happiness
  53. Fuseli's Private Habits
  54. Fuseli's Wife's Method of Curing His Fits of Despondency
  55. Fuseli's Personal Appearance, His Sarcastic Disposition, and Quick Temper
  56. Fuseli's Near Sight
  57. Fuseli's Popularity
  58. Fuseli's Artistic Merits
  59. Fuseli's Milton Gallery, the Character of His Works, and the Permanency of His Fame
  60. Salvator Rosa
  61. Salvator Rosa and Cav. Lanfranco
  62. Salvator Rosa at Rome and Florence
  63. Salvator Rosa's Return to Rome
  64. Salvator Rosa's Subjects
  65. Flagellation of Salvator Rosa
  66. Salvator Rosa and the Higgling Prince
  67. Salvator Rosa's Opinion of His Own Works
  68. Salvator Rosa's Banditti
  69. Salvator Rosa and Massaniello
  70. Salvator Rosa and Cardinal Sforza
  71. Salvator Rosa's Manifesto Concerning His Satirical Picture La Fortuna
  72. Salvator Rosa's Banishment from Rome
  73. Salvator Rosa's Wit
  74. Salvator Rosa's Reception at Florence
  75. Histrionic Powers of Salvator Rosa
  76. Salvator Rosa's Reception at the Palazzo Pitti
  77. Satires of Salvator Rosa
  78. Salvator Rosa's Harpsichord
  79. Rare Portrait by Salvator Rosa
  80. Salvator Rosa's Return to Rome
  81. Salvator Rosa's Love of Magnificence
  82. Salvator Rosa's Last Works
  83. Salvator Rosa's Desire to Be Considered an Historical Painter
  84. Don Mario Ghigi, His Physician, and Salvator Rosa
  85. Death of Salvator Rosa
  86. Domenichino
  87. The Dullness of Domenichino in Youth
  88. Domenichino's Scourging of St. Andrew
  89. The Communion of St. Jerome
  90. Domenichino's Enemies at Rome
  91. Decision of Posterity on the Merits of Domenichino
  92. Proof of the Merits of Domenichino
  93. Domenichino's Caricatures
  94. Intrigues of the Neapolitan Triumvirate of Painters
  95. Giuseppe Ribera, Called Il Spagnoletto—His Early Poverty and Industry
  96. Ribera's Marriage
  97. Ribera's Rise to Eminence
  98. Ribera's Discovery of the Philosopher's Stone
  99. Ribera's Subjects
  100. Ribera's Disposition
  101. Singular Pictorial Illusions
  102. Raffaelle's Skill in Portraits
  103. Jacopo Da Ponte
  104. Giovanni Rosa
  105. Cav. Giovanni Contarini
  106. Guercino's Power of Relief
  107. Bernazzano
  108. Invention of Oil Painting
  109. Foreshortening
  110. Method of Transferring Paintings from Walls and Panels to Canvass
  111. Works in Scagliola
  112. The Golden Age of Painting
  113. Golden Age of the Fine Arts in Ancient Rome
  114. Nero's Golden Palace
  115. Names of Ancient Architects Designated by Reptiles
  116. Triumphal Arches
  117. Statue of Pompey the Great
  118. Of Antique Sculptures in Rome
  119. Ancient Map of Rome
  120. Julian the Apostate
  121. The Tomb of Mausolus
  122. Mandrocles' Bridge Across the Bosphorus
  123. The Colossus of the Sun at Rhodes
  124. Statues and Paintings at Rhodes
  125. Sostratus' Light-House on the Isle of Pharos
  126. Dinocrates' Plan for Cutting Mount Athos Into a Statue of Alexander the Great
  127. Pope's Idea of Forming Mount Athos Into a Statue of Alexander the Great
  128. Temple with an Iron Statue Suspended in the Air by Loadstone
  129. The Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens
  130. The Parthenon at Athens
  131. The Elgin Marbles
  132. Odeon, or Odeum
  133. Perpetual Lamps
  134. The Skull of Raffaelle
  135. The Four Carlos of the 17Th Century
  136. Pietro Galletti and the Bolognese Students
  137. Ætion's Picture of the Nuptials of Alexander and Roxana
  138. Ageladas
  139. The Porticos of Agaptos
  140. The Group of Niobe and Her Children
  141. Statue of the Fighting Gladiator
  142. The Group of Laocoön in the Vatican
  143. Michael Angelo's Opinion of the Laocoön
  144. Discovery of the Laocoön
  145. Sir John Soane
  146. Soane's Liberality and Public Munificence
  147. The Belzoni Sarcophagus
  148. Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata."
  149. George Morland
  150. Morland's Early Talent
  151. Morland's Early Fame
  152. Morland's Mental and Moral Education, Under an Unnatural Parent
  153. Morland's Escape from the Thraldom of His Father
  154. Morland's Marriage, and Temporary Reform
  155. Morland's Social Position
  156. An Unpleasant Dilemma
  157. Morland at the Isle of Wight
  158. A Novel Mode of Fulfilling Commissions
  159. Hassell's First Interview with Morland
  160. Morland's Drawings in the Isle of Wight
  161. Morland's Freaks
  162. A Joke on Morland
  163. Morland's Apprehension as a Spy
  164. Morland's "Sign of the Black Bull."
  165. Morland and the Pawnbroker
  166. Morland's Idea of a Baronetcy
  167. Morland's Artistic Merit
  168. Charles Jervas
  169. Jervas the Instructor of Pope
  170. Jervas and Dr. Arbuthnot
  171. Jervas' Vanity
  172. Holbein and the Fly
  173. Holbein's Visit to England
  174. Henry VIII.'S Opinion of Holbein
  175. Holbein's Portrait of the Duchess Dowager of Milan
  176. Holbein's Flattery in Portraits—A Warning to Painters
  177. Holbein's Portrait of Cratzer
  178. Holbein's Portraits of Sir Thomas More and Family
  179. Sir John Vanbrugh and His Critics
  180. Anecdote of the English Painter James Seymour
  181. Precocity of Luca Giordano
  182. Giordano's Enthusiasm
  183. Luca Fa Presto
  184. Giordano's Skill in Copying
  185. Giordano's Success at Naples
  186. Giordano, the Viceroy, and the Duke of Diano
  187. Giordano Invited to Florence
  188. Giordano and Carlo Dolci
  189. Giordano's Visit to Spain
  190. Giordano's Works in Spain
  191. Giordano at the Escurial
  192. Giordano's Habits in Spain
  193. Giordano's First Pictures Painted at Madrid
  194. Giordano a Favorite at Court
  195. Giordano's Return to Naples
  196. Giordano's Personal Appearance and Character
  197. Giordano's Riches
  198. Giordano's Wonderful Facility of Hand
  199. Giordano's Powers of Imitation
  200. Giordano's Fame and Reputation
  201. Remarkable Instance of Giordano's Rapidity of Execution
  202. Revival of Painting in Italy
  203. Giovanni Cimabue
  204. Cimabue's Passion for Art
  205. Cimabue's Famous Picture of the Virgin
  206. The Works of Cimabue
  207. Death of Cimabue
  208. Giotto
  209. Giotto's St. Francis Stigmata
  210. Giotto's Invitation to Rome
  211. Giotto's Living Model
  212. Giotto and the King of Naples
  213. Giotto and Dante
  214. Death of Giotto
  215. Buonamico Buffalmacco
  216. Buffalmacco and His Master
  217. Buffalmacco and the Nuns of the Convent of Faenza
  218. Buffalmacco and the Nuns' Wine
  219. Buffalmacco, Bishop Guido, and His Monkey
  220. Buffalmacco's Trick on the Bishop of Arezzo
  221. Origin of Label Painting
  222. Utility of Ancient Works
  223. Buffalmacco and the Countryman
  224. Buffalmacco and the People of Perugia
  225. Buffalmacco's Novel Method of Enforcing Payment
  226. Stefano Fiorentino
  227. Giottino
  228. Paolo Uccello
  229. Uccello's Enthusiasm
  230. Uccello and the Monks of San Miniato
  231. Uccello's Five Portraits
  232. Uccello's Incredulity of St. Thomas
  233. The Italian Schools of Painting
  234. Claude Joseph Vernet
  235. Vernet's Precocity
  236. Vernet's Enthusiasm
  237. Vernet at Rome
  238. Vernet's "Alphabet of Tones."
  239. Vernet and the Connoisseur
  240. Vernet's Works
  241. Vernet's Passion for Music
  242. Vernet's Opinion of His Own Merits
  243. Curious Letter of Vernet
  244. Charles Vernet
  245. Anecdote of Charles Vernet
  246. M. De Lasson's Caricature
  247. Frank Hals and Vandyke

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