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

Author: S. Spooner

Release Date: May 12, 2006 [EBook #18383]

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. III.

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

COPYRIGHT, S. SPOONER, 1853.

Reentered, G. B., 1880.

CONTENTS.

Egyptian Art, 1
Ancient Thebes, 2
The Temple of Carnac, 5
Temple of Luxor, 5
The Statues of Memnon, 6
Heliopolis, 7
Memphis, 8
Lake Moeris, 9
The Colossal Sphinx, 10
The Labyrinth of Egypt, 11
The Catacombs of Egypt, 12
The Pyramids of Egypt, 19
Perilous Ascent of the Pyramid of Cephren, 27
Egyptian Obelisks, 30
Removal of an Obelisk by Fontana, 33
Removal of an Obelisk from Thebes to Paris, 40
Carburi's Base for the Equestrian Statue of Peter the Great, 42
Comparative Skill of the