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

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

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 298 pages of information about Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3).

  Schwarts, amusing Anecdote of, iii, 175.

  Sculpture, Invention of, i, 153;
    Etruscan, i, 90;
    Egyptian, iii, 1;
    Grecian, i, 154 and 157.

  Sculptures, Antique, at Rome, ii, 159.

  Seymour, Anecdotes of, and the Proud Duke, ii, 223.

  Shakspeare Gallery, iii, 305.

  Sirani, Elizabeth—­her Life and Works, iii, 134;
    her melancholy Death, iii, 135.

  Soane, Sir John, ii, 191;
    his Success and Works, ii, 192;
    his Liberality and Public Munificence, ii, 192;
    his Museum, ii, 193 ;
    the Belzoni Sarcophagus, ii, 194;
    Tasso’s MS. of Gerusalemme Liberata, ii, 195;
    other rare MSS., Antiquities, Works of Art, etc., ii, 195.

  Sostratus, his Light-House on the Isle of Pharos, ii, 164.

  Spagnoletto—­See Ribera.

  Spain, Melancholy State of the Fine Arts in, i, 217;
    Rarity of Female Portraits in, iii, 191.

  Spanish Art, Evil Effects of the Inquisition on, i, 211.

  Sphinx, the Colossal, iii, 10.

  Stabiae—­its Destruction, ii, 43.

  Statue of the Apollo Belvidere, i, 41;
    of the Apollo Sauroctonos, i, 155;
    of the Apollo, Colossal Etruscan, i, 90.

  Statue of the Venus de Medici, i, 147.

  Statue of the Venus of Cnidus, i, 156

  Statue of the Venus Victrix, i, 147.

  Statue of Minerva, Phidia’s, i, 158, and ii, 171.

  Statue of the Olympian Jupiter, Phidias’, i, 160

  Statue of the Fighting Gladiator, ii, 187.

  Statue of the Dying Gladiator, i, 144.

  Statue of Pompey the Great, ii, 159.

  Statue of Semiramis, cut out of a Mountain, ii, 167.

  Statue of Napoleon on the Column of Austerlitz, iii, 301.

  Statue, Equestrian, of Peter the Great, iii, 42.

  Statues, the Greek, i, 109.

  Statues, Sounding, iii, 6.

  Statues of Memnon, iii, 6.

  Stratagem, an Architect’s, i, 309.

  Stratagem, Hogarth’s, i, 169.

  Steen, Jan, iii, 238;
    his Works, iii, 238;
    Kugler’s Critique on, iii, 240;
    Frolics of Steen and Mieris, iii, 241.

  Stephenson, Robert, and the Britannia Bridge, iii, 46.

  Stuart, Charles Gilbert, i, 124;
    his Visit to Scotland and Return before the Mast, i, 125;
    his Visit to London, i, 125;
    his Skill in Music, and its Use in Time of Need, i, 126;
    his Introduction to West, i, 126;
    his Portrait of West, i, 126;
    his Scholarship, i, 131;
    his Rule of half prepayment, i, 131;
    his Powers of Perception i, 132;
    Allston’s Eulogium, i, 133;
    his great Conversational Powers, i, 133;
    his Success in Europe, i, 136;
    in Ireland, i, 136;
    his Return to America, i, 137;
    Stuart and Washington, i, 137;
    his Last Picture, i, 142;
    Stuart, his Boy and his Dog, i, 142;
    his Mark, i, 142.

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