Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 300 pages of information about Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers.

Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 300 pages of information about Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers.

BEATRICE CENCI Guido Reni 239 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

THE TRANSFIGURATION Raphael 249 MRS. JAMESON

THE BULL Paul Potter 256 EUGENE FROMENTIN

CORESUS AND CALLIRHOE Fragonard 262 EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT

THE MARKET-CART Gainsborough 268 RICHARD AND SAMUEL REDGRAVE

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE Tintoret 273 HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE 278 ANONYMOUS

LA CRUCHE CASSEE Greuze 280 THEOPHILE GAUTIER

PORTRAIT OF LADY COCKBURN
AND HER CHILDREN Reynolds 282
                     FREDERIC G. STEPHENS

ST. CECILIA Raphael 287 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

THE LAST SUPPER Leonardo da Vinci 289 JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

THE CHILDREN OF CHARLES I. Van dyck 300 JULES GUIFFREY

THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE TUGGED
TO HER LAST BERTH TO BE
BROKEN UP, 1838 Turner 306
                     JOHN RUSKIN

SPRING Botticelli 313 MARCEL REYMOND

Illustrations

BORDONE Fisherman presenting the Ring to the Doge Gradenigo Venice Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

BOTTICELLI The Birth of Venus Florence 6

VERONESE The Queen of Sheba Turin 16

MICHAEL ANGELO The Last Judgment Rome 18

CORREGGIO Magdalen Dresden 28

VAN DER HELST The Banquet of the Arquebusiers Amsterdam 34

WATTEAU L’Embarquement pour l’Ile
                             de Cythere Paris 38

RAPHAEL The Sistine Madonna Dresden 46

CARPACCIO The Dream of St. Ursula Venice 58

RUBENS The Descent from the Cross Antwerp 62

TITIAN Bacchus and Ariadne London 72

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