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Title: Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers

Editor: Esther Singleton

Release Date: January 7, 2006 [eBook #17478]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note:

Bracketted lower case letters refer to notes at the end of
the text{a}

At the end of this text I have provided some links to Internet
sites which have more information about some of the artists,
some of which may have color images similar to the ones presented
in this book.

GREAT PICTURES

As Seen and Described by Famous Writers

Edited and Translated by

ESTHER SINGLETON

Author of "Turrets, Towers, and Temples" and
Translator of "The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner"

With Numerous Illustrations

[Illustration: FISHERMAN PRESENTING THE RING TO THE DOGE GRADENIGO.
_Bordone._]

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
Copyright, 1899
By Dodd, Mead and Company

Preface

The cordial reception of "Turrets, Towers, and Temples" has encouraged
me to hope that a welcome may be given to a book treating the
masterpieces of painting in a similar manner.

Great writers and literary tourists have occasionally been inspired to
record the impressions of their saunterings among galleries and museums.
The most interesting of these, not necessarily professional, I have
tried to bring together in the following pages. My object has been not
to make a selection of the greatest pictures in the world, although m