The Old Masters and Their Pictures

Old Masters and Their Pictures,
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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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