Book/Printed Material Stories of art and artists,
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- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 9 of Stories of art and artists, SHOR LES OF Art AND Arr1rists BY CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT 3 AUTHOR OF HANDBOOKS OF LEGENDARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL ART PAINTERS SCULPTORS ARCHITECTS AND ENGRAVERS CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS AND STORIES OF THE SAINTS ETC…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 10 of Stories of art and artists, ve v 2 é Copyright 1886 By CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT All rights reserved Gnibversity Press Joun Witson anv Son CAMBRIDGE
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 11 of Stories of art and artists, Chis Book IS DEDICATED TO MY LITTLE DAUGHTER Jo KONP 1s WHOSE FONDNESS FOR STORIES IS AN INCENTIVE TO THE WRITING OF THEM CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 13 of Stories of art and artists, CONTENTS Slee nes PAGE PAGE ZEUXIS Gimmats Tete en eee ema ea ate teat NAS PAUSIAS 3 GOD OWN Pane weer eee eh ek etary naarow Ae APELLES 3 BU WHATNDACCOM yee…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 14 of Stories of art and artists, REMBRANDT VAN Ryw ALBERT DURER Luts pE Morates Jost DE RIBERA VELASQUEZ Nicnonas Poussin CLAUDE LORRAINE ANTOINE WATTEAU JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE MapamrE Le Brun Emite Jean Horace VERNET WritrAm Hocartn JosHuA REYNOLDS…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 15 of Stories of art and artists, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS pee eee PAGE Cortacr CHILDREN T GAINSBOROUGH Frontispiece SEA ORMMUPTEBR GY VEATICAIN cis Sous yin et oe sod oe ee ae Oe 3 LEAD BORNE UNOM CiuDOWEST EATACH 0…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 16 of Stories of art and artists, xl LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRALT OF MCIMABUIS J cMiemnet ene nha ns ee Tue Maponna or Santa Marra Novetia Cimasur Giomros TowEk HLORENCE laaee mee ieee EORTRATIN Of ERAN AWN GIST alii…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 17 of Stories of art and artists, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Grove oF DAaNcING CHILDREN DONATELLO Starve or Sant GEorGE DONATELLO Beatrice Cenct Guipo RENI Armor Crawin Iwo G85 4a 5 a 6 ee oe Heap or Roxana 1t SoppomA…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 18 of Stories of art and artists, X1V LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Tue Doe or THE Regiment HoRAcE VERNET 200 Entrance Gates Hampron Court 2 ss 1 0 ae Portrait oF THE DucHEss or DrvonsHire Str Josuua REyNoups 303…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 21 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS AINTING was practised in Egypt three thousand years before the birth of Christ But Egypt lost her place among the great powers of the world and her…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 22 of Stories of art and artists, O STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS and form among the five and thus in his one figure give a high average of feminine personal beauty This picture was much praised by Cicero…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 23 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS Oo PAUSIAS THIs painter was born about 360 Bc and lived at Sicyon He is famous as being the first artist who used encaustic painting for the…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 24 of Stories of art and artists, 4 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS out of the seawas his most famous work In it the goddess was wringing her hair and the silvery drops fell around her in such a…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 25 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS 5 which was not in his favor yet when Apelles was driven by a storm to Alexandria and the sovereign brought into contact with the painter their…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 26 of Stories of art and artists, 6 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS grandson of the god Apollo and a special patron and guardian of the island of Rhodes The artist represented him either as hunting or as returning…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 27 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS i painter worked quietly on amidst the din of war which raged all about him The lIalysus was carried to Rome in later times and placed in…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 28 of Stories of art and artists, 8 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS was carried to Rome and it has been said that Raphael sketched one of his finest compositions from it The chief excellence of this painter was…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 29 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS 9 the young man also so he brought his clay and from the outline which Kora had made he filled in a portrait in basrelief the first…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 30 of Stories of art and artists, 10 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS PHIDIAS AutnoucH the Egyptians were great sculptors as some of their remaining works show and though the Lions of Nineveh attest the skill of the Assyrians…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 31 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS 11 Phidias wished to put his name on his work but not being allowed to do so he accomplished his purpose by making his own portrait m…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 32 of Stories of art and artists, 12 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS throne were wonderful in their design and execution there were hundreds of figures of gods youths dancinggirls and animals and flowers in great abundance When the…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 33 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS 13 When Phidias returned from Elis to Athens he found that his friend and master Pericles had fallen into bad repute through the jealousy of his enemies…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 34 of Stories of art and artists, 14 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS marble base It is praised by many writers no less than thirtysix epigrams having been written upon it which have all been collected by Sontag and…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 35 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS 15 saying that it must have been between 550 and 396 Bc The story runs that a young girl died at Corinth and her nurse followimg the…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 36 of Stories of art and artists, 16 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS There is a difference of opinion as to the merits of Aleamenes and of Agoracritus some writers say Phidias so loved the last that he even…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 37 of Stories of art and artists, STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS ales wished to select the one which the artist himself considered the best and im order to ascertain which was his favorite she sent a servant to…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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Image 38 of Stories of art and artists, 18 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS that many sculptors should make representations of her and there are several very famous ones still existing in different museums One in the gallery of the…
- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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- Contributor: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
- Date: 1887
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About this Item
Title
- Stories of art and artists,
Names
- Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916.
Created / Published
- Boston, Ticknor and company, 1887.
Headings
- - Art--Juvenile and popular literature. [from old catalog]
- - Artists
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 3 p.l., [ix]-xiv p., 1 l., 357 p. incl. front., illus., plates, ports. 26 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- N5300 .W34
Library of Congress Control Number
- 09018297
Online Format
- online text
- image