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Title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)

Author: Shearjashub Spooner

Release Date: April 21, 2007 [EBook #21198]

Language: English

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ANECDOTES
OF
PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS
Sculptors and Architects,
AND
CURIOSITIES OF ART.

BY
S. SPOONER, M.D.,
AUTHOR OF "A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS."

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

NEW YORK:
R. WORTHINGTON, PUBLISHER,
770 Broadway.

COPYRIGHT, S. SPOONER, 1853.

Reentered, G. B., 1880.

CONTENTS.

Titian--Sketch of his Life, 1
Titian's Manners, 5
Titian's Works, 6
Titian's Imitators, 7
Titian's Venus and Adonis, 8
Titian and the Emperor Charles V., 10
Titian and Philip II., 13
Titian's Last Supper and El Mudo, 14
Titian's Old Age, 15
Monument to Titian, 15
Horace Vernet, 16
The Colosseum, 29
Nineveh and its Remains, 34
Description of a Palace Exhumed at Nimroud, 37
Origin and Antiquity of the Arch, 41
Antiquities of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae, 43
Ancient Fresco and Mosaic Painting,