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| ESSAY I. | |
| Introduction.—Lectures on Painting.—History of Art displayed by its remains.—Object of the present Essays.—Origin of Art.—First mention of Art in the Book of Genesis.—Egyptian and Chaldean Colonies.—Art among the Chinese.—Hindoo Art.—Egyptian Art.—Second Colonization from Egypt.—Egyptian Arts as practised by the Israelites.—The Ark of the Covenant and the Golden Calf.—Hieroglyphical Writing; its effects upon Art.—Egyptian Painting.—Pigments used by the Egyptians | 1 |
| ESSAY II. | |
| OF ART IN ANCIENT ITALY. | |
| Italy long a Civilised Nation before the existence of Rome.—The ancient Etruscans.—The useful Nature of their Works.—Their Tombs.—Those of Chiusi.—Tarquinii and Vulscii.—Etruscan Vases.—Painted Tombs.—Early Pictures mentioned by Pliny.—Etruscan Statues in Rome.—Roman Pictures.—Fabius Pictor.—Pacuvius.—Triumphal Pictures.—Pictures used in Law Suits.—Begging Pictures.—Compliment paid by Augustus to Painting.—First Greek Pictures brought to Rome by Mummius.—Pictures brought to Italy by different Conquerors and placed in Temples and Porticos.—New Italian School of Pottery.—Schools of Painting in Italy.—No good Roman Painters.—Roman Busts.—Mosaic Pictures.—Miniatures.—Books first Illustrated with Portraits by Varro and Atticus.—Antique Pictures found at Pompeii.—Portrait Painting in Nero’s Time.—Gradual decay of Art in Italy | 44 |
| ESSAY III. | |
| OF PAINTING IN GREECE, FIRST AND SECOND SERIES. | |
| Earliest Painting in Greece.—No relic of Greek Pictures remaining.—The Arts first cultivated at Sicyon and Corinth.—Their rapid improvement in Greece.—Art in Asia Minor.—Vases of Clay and of Metal.—The first Greek Painters.—Progress of Painting up to the time of Phidias.—The Works of Mycon.—Those of Polygnotus.—The Battle of Marathon.—The Pictures of Delphi.—Apollodorus.—Improvements made by him in Art.—Further Improvements made by Pamphilus.—And still further by Parrhasius.—His Pictures and Character.—Zeuxis, his Pictures.—Timanthes, his Pictures.—Colotes | 85 |
| ESSAY IV. | |
| OF THE THIRD PERIOD OF PAINTING IN GREECE. | |
| Macedonian Kings Encouragers of Art.—Philip.—Alexander.—Pamphilus and School of Sicyon.—Pictures of Pamphilus.—Apelles.—His Character.—His Pictures.—His Danger in Egypt.—His Picture of Calumny.—His Visit to Protogenes.—The Venus Anadyomene.—Protogenes.—His Pictures.—Aristides of Thebes.—His Pictures.—Nichomachus.—His Pictures.—Pausias.—His Picture of the Garland Maker.—Other Pictures.—Euphranor.—Antiphilus.—Familiar Life Subjects.—Pyreicus.—Interiors, animals, &c.—Minor Painters.—Nicias.—Timomachus.—His Medea.—Conclusion | 137 |
| ESSAY V. | |
| CLASSIFICATION OF PICTURES. | |
| Inconveniences of the present Mode of Classing Pictures.—Proposed Classification.—Historical Pictures Divisible into Four Classes.—Further Subdivision.—Present Class of Dramatic Pictures divided into two.—Three Classes of Portrait Painting.—Two Classes of Familiar Life Subjects.—Landscape, its Four Classes.—Two Classes of Animal Painting.—Examples taken from Ancient and Modern Pictures.—Table of Cebes.—Calumny of Apelles.—Old Fresco at Sienna.—Allegories of the Greek Painters.—Of Giotto.—Prophets and Sybils.—Sistine Chapel.—Works of Polygnotus.—Some Works of Raffaelle.—Other Pictures of Polygnotus.—Hemelink’s Three Kings.—Cimabue’s and Giotto’s Lives of St. Francis and the Virgin.—Raffaelle’s Loggie.—Luini Frescoes.—Andrea del Sarto.—Domenichino.—Pictures of Single Actions by the Ancients.—Many Examples by the Moderns.—Dramatic Pictures of the Ancients.—Of the Moderns.—Historical Portraits and Examples.—Familiar Life Pictures of the Ancients.—Of the Moderns.—Examples of the Four Classes of Landscapes.—Animal Painters Ancient and Modern | 169 |
| ESSAY VI. | |
| ON THE MATERIALS USED BY PAINTERS. | |
| Introduction.—Early Pictures, in Egypt and Etruria, on bare Sandstone.—Painting on fine Plaster or Stucco.—On Wood, prepared.—Kinds of Wood.—Manner of Preparing it by Ancients and Moderns.—Painting on Linen.—Its Antiquity.—Its use.—When revived.—Pigments.—Vulgar Error concerning the Number of Colours used by the Ancient Greeks.—Its Refutation.—White Pigments of the Ancients.—Middle Ages.—Moderns.—Yellows.—Reds, especially vermilion.—Minium.—The Red Ochres.—Dragons’ Blood.—Blue Colours.—Ultra Marine.—The Blue of Egypt.—Blues used by Early Modern Painters.—Blue Earths and Indigo, Ancient and Modern.—Green Colours, Native and Manufactured.—Blacks of the Ancients and Moderns.—Purples and Browns.—Vehicles used by Painters.—Difficulty of the subject.—Asphaltum, Petroleum, Wax, and Oil, used as Varnishes by the Ancients.—Encaustic Painting.—Vehicles certainly known to the Ancients.—The Vehicles used in the Tenth Century, in the Thirteenth, and by the Moderns.—Metal Points used for Drawing by the Ancients.—The Egyptian Drawings, made with a Pen or fine Pencil.—The Tools of Hogs’ Bristles have always been the same.—Fine Pencils made of Squirrels’ hair in the Twelfth Century.—Conclusion | 217 |