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).

  Church, St Peter’s, iii, 61

  Churches of Rome, iii, 60.

  Cimabue, Giovanni—­Sketch of his Life, ii, 251;
    his Style, ii, 252;
    his Passion for Art, ii, 252;
    his famous picture of the Virgin, ii, 253;
    remarkable instance of homage to Art, ii, 254;
    his Works, ii, 255;
    his Death, ii, 256;
    his Care of Giotto, ii, 257.

  Cloaca Maxima at Rome, ii, 42.

  Coello, Claudio, his challenge to Giordano, ii, 234.

  Column, Trajan’s, i, 164.

  Column of Austerlitz, iii, 280.

  Colosseum, description of, ii, 29;
    Montaigne’s quaint account of its Spectacles, ii, 31.

  Colossus of the Sun at Rhodes, ii, 162.

  “Columbus and the Egg,” story of, derived by him from
    Brunelleschi, iii, 95.

  Contarini, Cav.  Giovanni—­his skill in Portraits, ii, 139.

  Contri, Antonio—­his method of transferring frescos from walls to
    canvass, ii, 146;
    see also Palmarolis, ii, 147.

  Cooper, J. Fennimore—­his Encouragement of Greenough, i, 66;
    his Letter to Induce his Countrymen to Patronize their own
    Artists, i, 67.

  Corenzio, Belisario—­his Intrigues, ii, 128.

  Corinthian Capital, invention of, i, 152.

  Correggio—­Sketch of his Life, i, 243;
    his Cupola of the Church of St. John at Parma, i, 244;
    his grand Cupola of the Cathedral, i, 246;
    his Fate Exaggerated, i, 249;
    Lanzi’s Opinion, i, 251;
    his Marriage and Children, i, 252;
    Caracci’s Opinion of Correggio, and his Letter, i, 258;
    his Enthusiasm, i, 255;
    his Grace, i, 255;
    Correggio and the Monks, i, 256;
    his Kindness—­his Muleteer, i, 256;
    Duke of Wellington’s Correggio, i, 257;
    Correggio’s Ancona, i, 257;
    Portraits of Correggio, i, 258;
    did Correggio ever visit Rome? i, 259;
    Singular History of Correggio’s Adoration of the Shepherds, i, 261;
    of his Education of Cupid, i, 262;
    of a Magdalen, i, 264;
    of a Charity, i, 265;
    the celebrated Notte of Correggio, iii, 259.

  Cortona, Pietro—­Sketch of his Life, iii, 253;
    Anecdotes of, iii, 254.

  David, Jacques Louis, i, 176;
    his Politics and Love of Liberty, i, 176;
    David and Napoleon, i, 177;
    his Banishment to Brussels, i, 177;
    his famous picture of the Coronation of Napoleon, i, 178;
    David and Canova, i, 179;
    Napoleon’s Compliments to David, i, 180;
    the King of Wurtemberg’s, i, 181;
    List of Portraits it contained, i, 182;
    its Barbarous Destruction by the Bourbons, i, 184;
    David and the Duke of Wellington at Brussels, i, 184;
    David and the Cardinal Caprara, i, 185;
    Talma and David in his Banishment, 1, 186.

  Denon, the Baron—­his description of the Necropolis of Thebes, iii, 16,
    his Employment by Napoleon, iii, 802.

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