individual
or school achievement, but for reference by travelling students in
Europe.

This volume on painting, the first of the series, omits mention of
such work in Arabic, Indian, Chinese, and Persian art as may come
properly under the head of Ornament--a subject proposed for separate
treatment hereafter. In treating of individual painters it has been
thought best to give a short critical estimate of the man and his rank
among the painters of his time rather than the detailed facts of his
life. Students who wish accounts of the lives of the painters should
use Vasari, Larousse, and the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_ in connection
with this text-book.

Acknowledgments are made to the respective publishers of Woltmann and
Woermann's History of Painting, and the fine series of art histories
by Perrot and Chipiez, for permission to reproduce some few
illustrations from these publications.

JOHN C. VAN DYKE.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I.

EGYPTIAN PAINTING

CHAPTER II.

CHALDAEO-ASSYRIAN, PERSIAN, PHOENICIAN, CYPRIOTE, AND ASIA MINOR PAINTING

CHAPTER III.

GREEK, ETRUSCAN, AND ROMAN PAINTING

CHAPTER IV.

ITALIAN PAINTING--EARLY CHRISTIAN AND MEDIAEVAL PERIOD, 200-1250

CHAPTER V.

ITALIAN PAINTING--GOTHIC PERIOD, 1250-1400

CHAPTER VI.

ITALIAN PAINTING--EARLY RENAISSANCE, 1400-1500

CHAPTER VII.

ITALIAN PAINTING--EARLY RENAISSANCE, 1400-1500, _Continued_

CHAPTER VIII.

ITALIAN PAINTING--HIGH RENAISSANCE, 1500-1600

CHAPTER IX.

ITALIAN PAINTING--HIGH RENAISSANCE, 1500-1600, _Continued_

CHAPTER X.

ITALIAN PAINTING--HIGH RENAISSANCE, 1500-1600, _Continued_

CHAPTER XI.

ITALIAN PAINTING--THE DECADENCE AND MODERN WORK, 1600-1894

CHAPTER XII.

FRENCH PAINTING--SIXTEENTH, SEVENTEENTH, AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

CHAPTER XIII.

FRENCH PAINTING--NINETEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER XIV.

FRENCH PAINTING--NINETEENTH CENTURY, _Continued_

CHAPTER XV.

SPANISH PAINTING

CHAPTER XVI.

FLEMISH PAINTING

CHAPTER XVII.

DUTCH PAINTING

CHAPTER XVIII.

GERMAN PAINTING

CHAPTER XIX.

BRITISH PAINTING

CHAPTER XX.

AMERICAN PAINTING

POSTSCRIPT

INDEX

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Velasquez, Head of AEsop, Madrid _Frontispiece_

1 Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Ti, Saccarah

2 Portrait