Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art
by S. Spooner
- BLAS DE PRADO AND THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO.
- CARRENO'S COPY OF TITIAN'S ST. MARGARET.
- DON JUAN CARRENO
- JOHN C. VERMEYEN AND CHARLES V.
- EGYPTIAN ART.
- ANCIENT THEBES.
- THE TEMPLE OF CARNAC.
- TEMPLE OF LUXOR.
- THE STATUES OF MEMNON.
- HELIOPOLIS.
- MEMPHIS.
- LAKE MOERIS.
- THE COLOSSAL SPHINX.
- THE LABYRINTH OF EGYPT
- THE CATACOMBS OF EGYPT.
- THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT.
- PERILOUS ASCENT OF THE PYRAMID OF CEPHREN.
- EGYPTIAN OBELISKS.
- REMOVAL OF AN OBELISK BY FONTANA.
- REMOVAL OF AN OBELISK FROM THEBES TO PARIS.
- CARBURI'S BASE FOR THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF PETER THE GREAT.
- COMPARATIVE SKILL OF THE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS IN MECHANICS.
- THE BRITANNIA TUBULAR RAILWAY BRIDGE.
- THE TUBES.
- CONSTRUCTION OF THE TUBES.
- FLOATING OF THE TUBES.
- RAISING THE TUBES
- GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME.
- THE CAPITOL.
- MODERN ROME.
- THE FOUNDATION OF VENICE.
- THEODORIC THE GREAT, AND HIS LOVE OF THE FINE ARTS.
- ARCHIMEDES.
- FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI.
- BRUNELLESCHI'S ENTHUSIASM.
- BRUNELLESCHI AND DONATELLO.
- DONATELLO.
- DONATELLO AND THE MERCHANT.
- DONATELLO AND HIS KINSMAN.
- DEATH OF DONATELLO.
- DONATELLO AND MICHAEL ANGELO COMPARED.
- SOFONISBA ANGUISCIOLA'S EARLY DISTINCTION.
- SOFONISBA'S VISIT TO SPAIN.
- SOFONISBA'S MARRIAGES.
- SOFONISBA'S RESIDENCE AT GENOA, AND HER INTERCOURSE WITH VANDYCK.
- CARRIERA ROSALBA.
- ROSALBA'S MODESTY.
- ROSALBA'S KNOWLEDGE OF TEMPERS.
- ELIZABETH SIRANI.
- DEATH OF ELIZABETH SIRANI.
- RACHEL RUYSCH.
- SIR ANTHONY VANDYCK.
- VANDYCK'S VISIT TO ITALY.
- VANDYCK'S RETURN TO ANTWERP.
- VANDYCK'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.
- WILLIAM VAN DE VELDE, THE ELDER.
- VAN DE VELDE AND CHARLES II.
- WILLIAM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER.
- THE YOUNGER VAN DE VELDE'S WORKS.
- NICHOLAS POUSSIN.
- POUSSIN'S FIRST CELEBRITY.
- POUSSIN'S FIRST VISIT TO ROME.
- POUSSIN'S DISTRESS AT ROME.
- POUSSIN'S SUCCESS AT ROME.
- POUSSIN'S INVITATION TO PARIS.
- POUSSIN'S RETURN TO ROME.
- SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS' CRITIQUE ON POUSSIN.
- POUSSIN'S VIEWS OF HIS ART.
- POUSSIN'S WORKS.
- MARINO AND POUSSIN.
- POUSSIN ROMANIZED.
- POUSSIN'S HABITS OF STUDY.
- POUSSIN'S OLD AGE.
- POUSSIN'S LAST WORK AND DEATH.
- POUSSIN'S IDEAS OF PAINTING.
- POUSSIN AND THE NOBLEMAN.
- POUSSIN AND MENGS.
- POUSSIN AND DOMENICHINO.
- POUSSIN AND SALVATOR ROSA.
- POUSSIN, ANGELO, AND RAFFAELLE COMPARED.
- REMBRANDT.
- REMBRANDT'S WORKS.
- REMBRANDT AS AN ENGRAVER.
- ANECDOTE OF SCHWARTS.
- JACQUES CALLOT.
- CALLOT'S PATRIOTISM.
- INGENUITY OF ARTISTS.
- A HINT TO JEWELERS.
- CURIOUS PAINTINGS.
- THE OLDEST OIL PAINTING EXTANT.
- CURIOUS REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HARPIES.
- ADRIAN BROWER.
- BROWER, THE DUKE D'AREMBERG, AND RUBENS.
- DEATH OF BROWER.
- BROWER'S WORKS.
- ROSA DA TIVOLI.
- ROSA DA TIVOLI'S WORKS.
- ROSA DA TIVOLI'S FACILITY OF EXECUTION.
- ROSA DA TIVOLI'S HABITS.
- LUCA CAMBIASO'S FACILITY IN PAINTING.
- CAMBIASO'S WORKS IN SPAIN.
- CAMBIASO'S ARTISTIC MERITS.
- RARITY OF FEMALE PORTRAITS IN SPAIN.
- MURILLO'S PICTURES IN SPANISH AMERICA.
- MURILLO'S "VIRGIN OF THE NAPKIN."
- ANECDOTE OF AN ALTAR-PIECE BY MURILLO.
- MURILLO AND HIS SLAVE GOMEZ.
- AN ARTIST'S LOVE ROMANCE.
- ESTEBAN MARCH'S STRANGE METHOD OF STUDY.
- MARCH'S ADVENTURE OF THE FISH FRIED IN LINSEED OIL.
- A PAINTER'S REBUKE.
- A PAINTER'S RETORT COURTEOUS.
- ARDEMANS AND BOCANEGRA—A TRIAL OF SKILL.
- A PAINTER'S ARTIFICE TO "KEEP UP APPEARANCES."
- A GOOD-NATURED CRITICISM.
- ALONSO CANO AND THE INTENDANT OF THE BISHOP OF MALAGA.
- CANO'S LOVE OF SCULPTURE.
- CASTILLO'S SARCASM ON ALFARO.
- TORRES' IMITATIONS OF CARAVAGGIO.
- PANTOJA AND THE EAGLE.
- THE PAINTER METHODIUS AND THE KING OF BULGARIA.