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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Cruiosities of Art

by Shearjashub Spooner

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Author
Spooner, Shearjashub, 1809-1859
Title
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)
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Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
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English
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N: Fine Arts
Subject
Artists -- Anecdotes
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eBook-No.
21198
Project Gutenberg
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Release Date
April 21, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.ANECDOTES — OF — PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS — Sculptors and Architects, — AND — CURIOSITIES OF ART. — BY
  2. 2.S. SPOONER, M. D., — IN THREE VOLUMES. — VOL. II.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.TITIAN,—SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
  5. 5.TITIAN'S MANNERS.
  6. 6.TITIAN'S WORKS.
  7. 7.TITIAN'S IMITATORS.
  8. 8.TITIAN'S VENUS AND ADONIS.
  9. 9.TITIAN AND THE EMPEROR CHARLES V.
  10. 10.TITIAN AND PHILIP II.
  11. 11.TITIAN'S LAST SUPPER AND EL MUDO.
  12. 12.TITIAN'S OLD AGE.
  13. 13.MONUMENT TO TITIAN.
  14. 14.HORACE VERNET.
  15. 15.THE COLOSSEUM.
  16. 16.NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS.
  17. 17.DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE EXHUMED AT NIMROUD.
  18. 18.ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE ARCH.
  19. 19.ANTIQUITIES OF HERCULANEUM, POMPEII, AND STABIÆ.
  20. 20.ANCIENT FRESCO AND MOSAIC PAINTING.
  21. 21.MOSAIC OF THE BATTLE OF PLATÆA.
  22. 22.THE ALDOBRANDINI WEDDING.
  23. 23.THE PORTLAND VASE.
  24. 24.ANCIENT PICTURES OF GLASS.
  25. 25.HENRY FUSELI—HIS BIRTH.
  26. 26.FUSELI'S EARLY LOVE OF ART.
  27. 27.FUSELI'S LITERARY AND POETICAL TASTE.
  28. 28.FUSELI, LAVATER, AND THE UNJUST MAGISTRATE.
  29. 29.FUSELI'S TRAVELS, AND HIS LITERARY DISTINCTION.
  30. 30.FUSELI'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON.
  31. 31.FUSELI'S CHANGE FROM LITERATURE TO PAINTING.
  32. 32.FUSELI'S SOJOURN IN ITALY.
  33. 33.FUSELI'S "NIGHTMARE."
  34. 34.FUSELI'S "ŒDIPUS AND HIS DAUGHTERS."
  35. 35.FUSELI AND THE SHAKSPEARE GALLERY.
  36. 36.FUSELI'S "HAMLET'S GHOST."
  37. 37.FUSELI'S "TITANIA."
  38. 38.FUSELI'S ELECTION AS A ROYAL ACADEMICIAN.
  39. 39.FUSELI AND HORACE WALPOLE.
  40. 40.FUSELI AND THE BANKER COUTTS.
  41. 41.FUSELI AND PROF. PORSON.
  42. 42.FUSELI'S METHOD OF GIVING VENT TO HIS PASSION.
  43. 43.FUSELI'S LOVE FOR TERRIFIC SUBJECTS.
  44. 44.FUSELI'S AND LAWRENCE'S PICTURES FROM THE "TEMPEST."
  45. 45.FUSELI'S ESTIMATE OF REYNOLDS' ABILITIES IN HISTORICAL PAINTING.
  46. 46.FUSELI AND LAWRENCE.
  47. 47.FUSELI AS KEEPER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
  48. 48.FUSELI'S JESTS AND ODDITIES WITH THE STUDENTS OF THE ACADEMY.
  49. 49.FUSELI'S SARCASMS ON NORTHCOTE.
  50. 50.FUSELI'S' SARCASMS ON VARIOUS RIVAL ARTISTS.
  51. 51.FUSELI'S RETORTS.
  52. 52.FUSELI'S SUGGESTION OF AN EMBLEM OF ETERNITY
  53. 53.FUSELI'S REPORT IN MR. COUTTS' BANKING HOUSE.
  54. 54.FUSELI'S GENERAL SARCASMS ON LANDSCAPE AND PORTRAIT PAINTERS.
  55. 55.FUSELI'S OPINION OF HIS OWN ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS.
  56. 56.FUSELI'S PRIVATE HABITS.
  57. 57.FUSELI'S WIFE'S METHOD OF CURING HIS FITS OF DESPONDENCY.
  58. 58.FUSELI'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE, HIS SARCASTIC DISPOSITION, AND QUICK TEMPER.
  59. 59.FUSELI'S NEAR SIGHT.
  60. 60.FUSELI'S POPULARITY.
  61. 61.FUSELI'S ARTISTIC MERITS.
  62. 62.FUSELI'S MILTON GALLERY, THE CHARACTER OF HIS WORKS, AND THE PERMANENCY OF HIS FAME.
  63. 63.SALVATOR ROSA.
  64. 64.SALVATOR ROSA AND CAV. LANFRANCO.
  65. 65.SALVATOR ROSA AT ROME AND FLORENCE.
  66. 66.SALVATOR ROSA'S RETURN TO ROME.
  67. 67.SALVATOR ROSA'S SUBJECTS.
  68. 68.FLAGELLATION OF SALVATOR ROSA.
  69. 69.SALVATOR ROSA AND THE HIGGLING PRINCE.
  70. 70.SALVATOR ROSA'S OPINION OF HIS OWN WORKS.
  71. 71.SALVATOR ROSA'S BANDITTI.
  72. 72.SALVATOR ROSA AND MASSANIELLO.
  73. 73.SALVATOR ROSA AND CARDINAL SFORZA.
  74. 74.SALVATOR ROSA'S MANIFESTO CONCERNING HIS SATIRICAL PICTURE LA FORTUNA.
  75. 75.SALVATOR ROSA'S BANISHMENT FROM ROME.
  76. 76.SALVATOR ROSA'S WIT.
  77. 77.SALVATOR ROSA'S RECEPTION AT FLORENCE.
  78. 78.HISTRIONIC POWERS OF SALVATOR ROSA.
  79. 79.SALVATOR ROSA'S RECEPTION AT THE PALAZZO PITTI.
  80. 80.SATIRES OF SALVATOR ROSA.
  81. 81.SALVATOR ROSA'S HARPSICHORD.
  82. 82.RARE PORTRAIT BY SALVATOR ROSA.
  83. 83.SALVATOR ROSA'S RETURN TO ROME.
  84. 84.SALVATOR ROSA'S LOVE OF MAGNIFICENCE.
  85. 85.SALVATOR ROSA'S LAST WORKS.
  86. 86.SALVATOR ROSA'S DESIRE TO BE CONSIDERED AN HISTORICAL PAINTER.
  87. 87.DON MARIO GHIGI, HIS PHYSICIAN, AND SALVATOR ROSA.
  88. 88.DEATH OF SALVATOR ROSA.
  89. 89.DOMENICHINO.
  90. 90.THE DULLNESS OF DOMENICHINO IN YOUTH.
  91. 91.DOMENICHINO'S SCOURGING OF ST. ANDREW.
  92. 92.THE COMMUNION OF ST. JEROME.
  93. 93.DOMENICHINO'S ENEMIES AT ROME.
  94. 94.DECISION OF POSTERITY ON THE MERITS OF DOMENICHINO.
  95. 95.PROOF OF THE MERITS OF DOMENICHINO.
  96. 96.DOMENICHINO'S CARICATURES.
  97. 97.INTRIGUES OF THE NEAPOLITAN TRIUMVIRATE OF PAINTERS.
  98. 98.GIUSEPPE RIBERA, CALLED IL SPAGNOLETTO—HIS EARLY POVERTY AND INDUSTRY.
  99. 99.RIBERA'S MARRIAGE.
  100. 100.RIBERA'S RISE TO EMINENCE.
  101. 101.RIBERA'S DISCOVERY OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE.
  102. 102.RIBERA'S SUBJECTS.
  103. 103.RIBERA'S DISPOSITION.
  104. 104.SINGULAR PICTORIAL ILLUSIONS.
  105. 105.RAFFAELLE'S SKILL IN PORTRAITS.
  106. 106.JACOPO DA PONTE.
  107. 107.GIOVANNI ROSA.
  108. 108.CAV. GIOVANNI CONTARINI.
  109. 109.GUERCINO'S POWER OF RELIEF.
  110. 110.BERNAZZANO.
  111. 111.INVENTION OF OIL PAINTING.
  112. 112.FORESHORTENING.
  113. 113.METHOD OF TRANSFERRING PAINTINGS FROM WALLS AND PANELS TO CANVASS.
  114. 114.WORKS IN SCAGLIOLA.
  115. 115.THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAINTING.
  116. 116.GOLDEN AGE OF THE FINE ARTS IN ANCIENT ROME.
  117. 117.NERO'S GOLDEN PALACE.
  118. 118.NAMES OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTS DESIGNATED BY REPTILES.
  119. 119.TRIUMPHAL ARCHES.
  120. 120.STATUE OF POMPEY THE GREAT.
  121. 121.OF ANTIQUE SCULPTURES IN ROME.
  122. 122.ANCIENT MAP OF ROME.
  123. 123.JULIAN THE APOSTATE.
  124. 124.THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS.
  125. 125.MANDROCLES' BRIDGE ACROSS THE BOSPHORUS.
  126. 126.THE COLOSSUS OF THE SUN AT RHODES.
  127. 127.STATUES AND PAINTINGS AT RHODES.
  128. 128.SOSTRATUS' LIGHT-HOUSE ON THE ISLE OF PHAROS.
  129. 129.DINOCRATES' PLAN FOR CUTTING MOUNT ATHOS INTO A STATUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
  130. 130.POPE'S IDEA OF FORMING MOUNT ATHOS INTO A STATUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
  131. 131.TEMPLE WITH AN IRON STATUE SUSPENDED IN THE AIR BY LOADSTONE.
  132. 132.THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS AT ATHENS.
  133. 133.THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS.
  134. 134.THE ELGIN MARBLES.
  135. 135.ODEON, OR ODEUM.
  136. 136.PERPETUAL LAMPS.
  137. 137.THE SKULL OF RAFFAELLE.
  138. 138.THE FOUR FINEST PICTURES IN ROME.
  139. 139.THE FOUR CARLOS OF THE 17TH CENTURY.
  140. 140.PIETRO GALLETTI AND THE BOLOGNESE STUDENTS.
  141. 141.ÆTION'S PICTURE OF THE NUPTIALS OF ALEXANDER AND ROXANA.
  142. 142.AGELADAS.
  143. 143.THE PORTICOS OF AGAPTOS.
  144. 144.THE GROUP OF NIOBE AND HER CHILDREN.
  145. 145.STATUE OF THE FIGHTING GLADIATOR.
  146. 146.THE GROUP OF LAOCOÖN IN THE VATICAN.
  147. 147.MICHAEL ANGELO'S OPINION OF THE LAOCOÖN.
  148. 148.DISCOVERY OF THE LAOCOÖN.
  149. 149.SIR JOHN SOANE.
  150. 150.SOANE'S LIBERALITY AND PUBLIC MUNIFICENCE.
  151. 151.THE BELZONI SARCOPHAGUS.
  152. 152.TASSO'S "GERUSALEMME LIBERATA."
  153. 153.GEORGE MORLAND.
  154. 154.MORLAND'S EARLY TALENT.
  155. 155.MORLAND'S EARLY FAME.
  156. 156.MORLAND'S MENTAL AND MORAL EDUCATION, UNDER AN UNNATURAL PARENT.
  157. 157.MORLAND'S ESCAPE FROM THE THRALDOM OF HIS FATHER.
  158. 158.MORLAND'S MARRIAGE, AND TEMPORARY REFORM.
  159. 159.MORLAND'S SOCIAL POSITION.
  160. 160.AN UNPLEASANT DILEMMA.
  161. 161.MORLAND AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
  162. 162.A NOVEL MODE OF FULFILLING COMMISSIONS.
  163. 163.HASSELL'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH MORLAND.
  164. 164.MORLAND'S DRAWINGS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
  165. 165.MORLAND'S FREAKS.
  166. 166.A JOKE ON MORLAND.
  167. 167.MORLAND'S APPREHENSION AS A SPY.
  168. 168.MORLAND'S "SIGN OF THE BLACK BULL."
  169. 169.MORLAND AND THE PAWNBROKER.
  170. 170.MORLAND'S IDEA OF A BARONETCY.
  171. 171.MORLAND'S ARTISTIC MERIT.
  172. 172.CHARLES JERVAS.
  173. 173.JERVAS THE INSTRUCTOR OF POPE.
  174. 174.JERVAS AND DR. ARBUTHNOT.
  175. 175.JERVAS' VANITY.
  176. 176.HOLBEIN AND THE FLY.
  177. 177.HOLBEIN'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.
  178. 178.HENRY VIII.'S OPINION OF HOLBEIN.
  179. 179.HOLBEIN'S PORTRAIT OF THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF MILAN.
  180. 180.HOLBEIN'S FLATTERY IN PORTRAITS—A WARNING TO PAINTERS.
  181. 181.HOLBEIN'S PORTRAIT OF CRATZER.
  182. 182.HOLBEIN'S PORTRAITS OF SIR THOMAS MORE AND FAMILY.
  183. 183.SIR JOHN VANBRUGH AND HIS CRITICS.
  184. 184.ANECDOTE OF THE ENGLISH PAINTER JAMES SEYMOUR.
  185. 185.PRECOCITY OF LUCA GIORDANO.
  186. 186.GIORDANO'S ENTHUSIASM.
  187. 187.LUCA FA PRESTO.
  188. 188.GIORDANO'S SKILL IN COPYING.
  189. 189.GIORDANO'S SUCCESS AT NAPLES.
  190. 190.GIORDANO, THE VICEROY, AND THE DUKE OF DIANO.
  191. 191.GIORDANO INVITED TO FLORENCE.
  192. 192.GIORDANO AND CARLO DOLCI.
  193. 193.GIORDANO'S VISIT TO SPAIN.
  194. 194.GIORDANO'S WORKS IN SPAIN.
  195. 195.GIORDANO AT THE ESCURIAL.
  196. 196.GIORDANO'S HABITS IN SPAIN.
  197. 197.GIORDANO'S FIRST PICTURES PAINTED AT MADRID.
  198. 198.GIORDANO A FAVORITE AT COURT.
  199. 199.GIORDANO'S RETURN TO NAPLES.
  200. 200.GIORDANO'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER.
  201. 201.GIORDANO'S RICHES.
  202. 202.GIORDANO'S WONDERFUL FACILITY OF HAND.
  203. 203.GIORDANO'S POWERS OF IMITATION.
  204. 204.GIORDANO'S FAME AND REPUTATION.
  205. 205.REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF GIORDANO'S RAPIDITY OF EXECUTION.
  206. 206.REVIVAL OF PAINTING IN ITALY.
  207. 207.GIOVANNI CIMABUE.
  208. 208.CIMABUE'S PASSION FOR ART.
  209. 209.CIMABUE'S FAMOUS PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN.
  210. 210.THE WORKS OF CIMABUE.
  211. 211.DEATH OF CIMABUE.
  212. 212.GIOTTO.
  213. 213.GIOTTO'S ST. FRANCIS STIGMATA
  214. 214.GIOTTO'S INVITATION TO ROME.
  215. 215.GIOTTO'S LIVING MODEL.
  216. 216.GIOTTO AND THE KING OF NAPLES.
  217. 217.GIOTTO AND DANTE.
  218. 218.DEATH OF GIOTTO.
  219. 219.BUONAMICO BUFFALMACCO.
  220. 220.BUFFALMACCO AND HIS MASTER.
  221. 221.BUFFALMACCO AND THE NUNS OF THE CONVENT OF FAENZA.
  222. 222.BUFFALMACCO AND THE NUNS' WINE.
  223. 223.BUFFALMACCO, BISHOP GUIDO, AND HIS MONKEY.
  224. 224.BUFFALMACCO'S TRICK ON THE BISHOP OF AREZZO.
  225. 225.ORIGIN OF LABEL PAINTING.
  226. 226.UTILITY OF ANCIENT WORKS.
  227. 227.BUFFALMACCO AND THE COUNTRYMAN.
  228. 228.BUFFALMACCO AND THE PEOPLE OF PERUGIA.
  229. 229.BUFFALMACCO'S NOVEL METHOD OF ENFORCING PAYMENT.
  230. 230.STEFANO FIORENTINO.
  231. 231.GIOTTINO.
  232. 232.PAOLO UCCELLO.
  233. 233.UCCELLO'S ENTHUSIASM.
  234. 234.UCCELLO AND THE MONKS OF SAN MINIATO.
  235. 235.UCCELLO'S FIVE PORTRAITS.
  236. 236.UCCELLO'S INCREDULITY OF ST. THOMAS.
  237. 237.THE ITALIAN SCHOOLS OF PAINTING.
  238. 238.CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET.
  239. 239.VERNET'S PRECOCITY.
  240. 240.VERNET'S ENTHUSIASM.
  241. 241.VERNET AT ROME.
  242. 242.VERNET'S "ALPHABET OF TONES."
  243. 243.VERNET AND THE CONNOISSEUR.
  244. 244.VERNET'S WORKS.
  245. 245.VERNET'S PASSION FOR MUSIC
  246. 246.VERNET'S OPINION OF HIS OWN MERITS.
  247. 247.CURIOUS LETTER OF VERNET.
  248. 248.CHARLES VERNET.
  249. 249.ANECDOTE OF CHARLES VERNET.
  250. 250.M. DE LASSON'S CARICATURE.
  251. 251.FRANK HALS AND VANDYKE.

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