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Old Masters and Their Pictures, by Sarah Tytler

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Title: The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
Author: Sarah Tytler
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THE OLD MASTERS AND THEIR PICTURES
For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
BY SARAH TYTLER
AUTHOR OF "PAPERS FOR THOUGHTFUL GIRLS" ETC.
NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION
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LONDON ISBISTER AND COMPANY LIMITED 15 & 16 TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN 1893
[The Right of Translation is Reserved]
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J.S. VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED, CITY ROAD.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
I wish to say, in a very few words, that this book is intended to be a simple account of the great Old Masters in painting of every age and country, with descriptions of their most famous works, for the use of learners and outsiders in art. The book is not, and could not well be, exhaustive in its nature. I have avoided definitions of schools, considering that these should form a later and more elaborate portion of art education, and preferring to group my 'painters' according to what I hold to be the primitive arrangements of time, country, and rank in art.

PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
The restrictions with regard to space under which the little volume called "The Old Masters" was originally written, caused me to omit, to my regret, many names great, though not first, in art. The circulation which the book has attained induces me to do what I can to remedy the defect, and render the volume more useful by adding two chapters--the one on Italian and the other on German, Dutch, and Flemish masters. These chapters consist almost entirely of condensed notes taken from two trustworthy sources, to which I have been already much indebted--Sir C, and Lady Eastlake's version of Kugler's "Handbook of Italian Art," and Dr. Waagen's "Handbook,"--remodelled from Kugler--of German, Dutch, and Flemish art, revised by J.A. Crowe. I have purposely given numerous records of those Dutch painters whose art has been specially popular in England and who are in some cases better represented in our country than in their own.

CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGE I. EARLY ITALIAN ART--GIOTTO, 1276-1337--ANDREA PISANO, 1280-1345--ORCAGNA, 1315-1376--GHIBERTI, 1381-1455--MASACCIO, 1402-1428 OR 1429--FRA ANGELICO, 1387-1455 1
II. EARLY FLEMISH ART--THE VAN EYCKS, 1366-1442--MABUSE, ABOUT 1470-1532--MEMLING, ABOUT 1478-1499--QUINTIN MATSYS, 1460-1530 OR 31 41
III. IN EARLY SCHOOLS OF ITALIAN ART--THE BELLINI, 1422-1512--MANTEGNA, 1431-1506--GHIRLANDAJO, 1449-1498--- IL FRANCIA, 1450-1518--FRA BARTOLOMMEO, 1469-1517--ANDREA DEL SARTO, 1488-1530 53
IV. LIONARDO DA VINCI. 1452-1519--MICHAEL ANGELO, 1475-1564--RAPHAEL, 1483-1520--TITIAN, 1477-1566 83
V. GERMAN ART--ALBRECHT DüRER, 1471-1528 169
VI. LATER ITALIAN ART--GIORGIONE, 1477-1511--CORREGGIO, ABOUT 1493-1534--TINTORETTO, 1512-1594--VERONESE, 1530-1588 181
VII. CARRACCI, 1555-1609--GUIDO RENI, 1575-1642--DOMENICHINO, 1581-1641--SALVATOR ROSA, 1615-1673 212
VIII. LATER FLEMISH ART--RUBENS, 1577-1640--REMBRANDT, 1606 OR 1608-1669--TENIERS, FATHER AND SON, 1582-1694--WOUVVERMAN, 1620-1668--CUYP, 1605; STILL LIVING, 1638--PAUL POTTER, 1625-1654--CORNELIUS DE HEEM, 1630 225
IX. SPANISH ART--VELASQUEZ, 1599-1660--MURILLO, 1618-1682 260
X. FRENCH ART--NICOLAS POUSSIN, 1594-1665--CLAUDE LORRAINE, 1600-1682--CHARLES LE BRUN, 1619-1690--WATTEAU, 1684-1721--GREUZE, 1726-1805 286
XI. FOREIGN ARTISTS IN ENGLAND--HOLBEIN, 1494-1543--VAN DYCK, 1599-1641--LELY, 1618-1680--CANALETTO, 1697-1768--KNELLER, 1646-1723 309
XII. ITALIAN MASTERS FROM THE FOURTEENTH TO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES--TADDEO GADDI, 1300, SUPPOSED TO HAVE DIED 1366--FRA FILIPPO, 1412-1469--BENOZZO GOZZOLI, 1424-1496--LUCA SIGNORELLI, 1441, SUPPOSED TO HAVE DIED ABOUT 1524--BOTTICELLI, 1447-1515--PERUGINO, 1446-1522--CARPACCIO, DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH AND DEATH UNKNOWN--CRIVELLI, FILIPPINO LIPI, EARLIER THAN 1460--ANTONELLA DA MESSINA, BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED AT VENICE, 1416--GAROPALO, 1481-1559--LUINI, DATE OF BIRTH UNKNOWN, SUPPOSED TO HAVE DIED ABOUT 1530--PALMA, ABOUT 1480-1528--PARDENONE, 1483-1538--LO SPAGNA, DATE OF BIRTH UNKNOWN, 1533--GIULIO ROMANO, 1492-1546--PARIS BORDONE, 1500-1570--IL PARMIGIANINO, 1503-1540--BAROCCIO, 1528-1612--CARAVAGGIO, 1569-1609--LO SPAGNOLETTO, 1593-1656--GUERCINO, 1592-1666--ALBANO, 1578-1660--SASSOFERRATO, 1605-1615--VASARI, 1512-1574--SOFONISBA ANGUISCIOLA, 1535, ABOUT 1626--LAVINIA FONTANA, 1552-1614 364
XIII. GERMAN, FLEMISH, AND DUTCH ARTISTS FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY--VAN DER WEYDEN, A CONTEMPORARY OF THE VAN EYCKS, 1366-1442--VAN LEYDEN, 1494-1533--VAN SOMER, 1570-1624--SNYDERS, 1579-1657--G. HONTHORST, 1592-1662--JAN STEEN, 1626-1679--GERARD DOW, 1613-1680--DE HOOCH, DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH UNKNOWN--VAN OSTADE, 1610-1685--MAAS, 1632-1693--METZU, 1615. STILL ALIVE IN 1667--TERBURG, 1608-1681--NETCHER, 1639-1684--BOL, 1611-1680--VAN DER HELST, 1613-1670--RUYSDAEL, 1625 (?)-1682--HOBBEMA, 1638-1709--BERCHEM, 1620-1683--BOTH 1600 (?)-1650(?) DU JARDIN, 1625-1678--ADRIAN VAN DE VELDE, 1639-1672--VAN DER HEYDEN, 1637-1712--DE WITTE, 1607-1692--VAN DER NEER, 1619 (?)-1683--WILLIAM VAN DE VELDE, THE YOUNGER, 1633-1707--BACKHUYSEN, 1631-1708--VAN DE CAPELLA, ABOUT 1653--HONDECOETER, 1636-1695--JAN WEENIX, 1644-1719--PATER SEGERS, 1590-1661--VAN HUYSUM, 1682-1749--VAN DER WERFF, 1659-1722--MENGS, 1728-1774 391
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THE OLD MASTERS AND THEIR PICTURES.
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CHAPTER I.
EARLY ITALIAN ART--GIOTTO, 1276-1337--ANDREA PISANO. 1280-1345--ORCAGNA, 1315-1376 GHIBERTI, 1381-1455--MASACCIO, 1402-1428 OR 1429--FRA ANGELICO, 1387-1455.
A pencil and paper, a box of colours, and a scrap-book, form so often a child's favourite toys that one might expect that a