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Title: A Text-Book of the History of Painting
Author: John C. Van Dyke
Release Date: July 23, 2006 [EBook #18900]
Language: English
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Transcriber's Note.

The images in this e book of the paintings are from the original book. However many of the paintings have undergone extensive restoration. Some of the restored paintings are presented as modern color images with links.

Copyright , 1894, by
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

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The object of this series of text-books is to provide concise teachable histories of art for class-room use in schools and colleges. The limited time given to the study of art in the average educational institution has not only dictated the condensed style of the volumes, but has limited their scope of matter to the general features of art history. Archological discussions on special subjects and sthetic theories have been avoided. The main facts of history as settled by the best authorities are given. If the reader choose to enter into particulars the bibliography cited at the head of each chapter will be found helpful. Illustrations have been introduced as sight-help to the text, and, to avoid repetition, abbreviations have been used wherever practicable. The enumeration of the principal extant works of an artist, school, or period, and where they may be found, which follows each chapter, may be serviceable not only as a summary of individual or school achievement, but for reference by travelling students in Europe.

This volume on painting, the first of the series, omits mention of such work in Arabic, Indian, Chinese, and Persian art as may come properly under the head of Ornamenta subject proposed for separate treatment hereafter. In treating of individual painters it has been thought best to give a short critical estimate of the man and his rank among the painters of his time rather than the detailed facts of his life. Students who wish accounts of the lives of the painters should use Vasari, Larousse, and the Encyclopdia Britannica in connection with this text-book.

Acknowledgments are made to the respective publishers of Woltmann and Woermann's History of Painting, and the fine series of art histories by Perrot and Chipiez, for permission to reproduce some few illustrations from these publications.

John C. Van Dyke.

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(This includes the leading accessible works that treat of painting in general. For works on special periods or schools, see the bibliographical references at the head of each chapter. For bibliography of individual painters consult, under proper names, Champlin and Perkins's Cyclopedia, as given below.)

• Champlin and Perkins, Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, New York.
• Adeline, Lexique des Termes d'Art.
• Gazette des Beaux Arts, Paris.
• Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire Universel, Paris.
• L'Art, Revue hebdomadaire illustre, Paris.
• Bryan, Dictionary of Painters. New edition.
• Brockhaus, Conversations-Lexikon.
• Meyer, Allgemeines Knstler-Lexikon, Berlin.
• Muther, History of Modern Painting.
• Agincourt, History of Art by its Monuments.
• Bayet, Prcis d'Histoire de l'Art.
• Blanc, Histoire des Peintres de toutes les coles.
• Eastlake, Materials for a History of Oil Painting.
• Lbke, History of Art, trans. by Clarence Cook.
• Reber, History of Ancient Art.
• Reber, History of Medival Art.
• Schnasse, Geschichte der Bildenden Knste.
• Girard, La Peinture Antique.
• Viardot, History of the Painters of all Schools.
• Williamson (Ed.), Handbooks of Great Masters.
• Woltmann and Woermann, History of Painting.

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The origin of painting is unknown. The first important records of this art are met with in Egypt; but before the Egyptian civilization the men of the early ages probably used color in ornamentation and decoration, and they certainly scratched the outlines of men and animals upon bone and slate. Traces of this rude primitive work still remain to us on the pottery, weapons, and stone implements of the cave-dwellers. But while indicating the awakening of intelligence in early man, they can be reckoned with as art only in a slight archological way. They show inclination rather than accomplishmenta wish to ornament or to represent, with only a crude knowledge of how to go about it.