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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from Manual of the Early Collection of Early Italian Pictures: Deposited in the Yale School or Fin School Arts, Bring a Catalogue Masaccio, if the Italians had asked for cabinet pic tures, or for transportable paintings of even large size, instead of mosaics, frescoes, and huge altar-pieces. But there was nothing then of the too common modern feeling toward a picture, as toward an ex pensive piece of furniture or wall-hanging. Even th...

Excerpt from Homes in City and Country About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the o...

Excerpt from A Short History of Architecture, Europe It is to be remembered also that the subjects of this enquiry are in themselves full of interest. The buildings which we study are always singularly attractive and often of extreme beauty. The beauty is increased, and the attractiveness of the less beautiful is multiplied many fold by minute examination into the ways in which their builders and sculptors did their work. In the study of any ...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Vol. 2 of 3: Biographical Historical, and Descriptive A good dictionary will be good reading even if a column or a page be read consecutively, but it will be still better reading if the reader is in the mood to take a little pains and turns to one article after another, following not the alphabetical sequence of the terms, but the sequence of his own thought. This matter of the student's...

Excerpt from The Artist's Way of Working in the Various Handicrafts and Arts of Design, Vol. 2 Mosaic of colored glass set in plaster or marble frames from a mosque at Cairo, now in the museum there (a. Gayet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Vol. 3 of 3: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive Biography has been the work of Mr. Smith, as stated in Vol. I. Finally, the vast subject of the history of architecture, ancient and modern, European and Oriental, whether treated geographically or by subjects, has been handled by Professor Babcock (vaults), Mr. Day (the Stoa, the Temple), Mr. Ferree (church, the summary), Mr. Fiske...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Vol. 1 of 3: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive The illustrations have been drawn from many sources, of which a complete list will be given at the close of the work. It is right, however, to mention here the names of those contributors who have, without additional remuneration, furnished illustrations to their own articles. These are, for Vol. I, Mr. Hill to the article Apartment ...

Excerpt from The Appreciation of Architecture How to Judge ArchitectureChevet 103 Choir Choragic (def.) (note) Church Architecture predominant 70 Classical Architecture. Only the more stately buildings studied in modern times. 197-199 Classical Revival in Italy 131 the same affecting Architecture, (if) 133. (if) 143 Classicismo (def.)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www....

Excerpt from Annotated Bibliography of Fine Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Arts of Decoration and Illustration Mr. Sturgis has written much for periodicals, and has delivered many public lectures as well as addresses before the numerous societies with which he is affiliated, his subject being always connected with the Fine Arts and especially the arts of decorative design. He was Editor for Decorative Art and Mediaeval Archaeology of...

Excerpt from The Appreciation of Sculpture: A Handbook Sculpture has never been what the fine art of architecture has been since 1815 in all the lands of western Civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t...

Excerpt from The Interdependence of the Arts of Design: A Series of Six Lectures, Delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago So it is generally. I am asked, let us say, to discuss some pieces of recent Ameri can architecture, but the conditions ofamer ican architecture will not become familiar to me or to any one of my generation until it has ceased to be recent. It is not observe this - a matter of quickness of intel lectual appreciation. Giv...

Excerpt from The Artist's Way of Working in the Various Handicrafts and Arts of Design, Vol. 1 Artistic purpose. Suppose that we were to try to analyze the speech of a ¿uent talker, who has also knowledge and ideas, and who is engaged for the moment with some serious subject: The mind of that talker is at the same time producing thoughts from his store of memories and of impressions, and drawing conclusions from those memo ries and impression...

Excerpt from The Etchings of Piranesi Giambattista Piranesi was born at Venice in 1720, and died at Rome in 1778. His tomb is in the Church of St. Mary on the Aventine, which once belonged to the Priory of the Knights of St. John. There is there a statue of some merit which commemorates him, and the fact that he, as architect, restored and decorated that Church ten years or more before his death. He also restored the Church of Santa Maria del...

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Excerpt from The Appreciation of Pictures: A Handbook The Omval, Rembrandt O¿icers of S. Adriaen's Shoot ing Guild, Frans Hals An Interior, Egidius van. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...