The New Standard Encyclopedia of Art: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Decorative Arts

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Basedon the Work of
LOUIS HOURTICQ
MemberoftheInstituteofFrance
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Translated Underthe Supervision of
TANCRED BORENIUS, Ph.D., D.Lit.
Durning-LaturenceProfessoroftheHistoryofArt
inthe University ofLondon
Fully Revised Under the Supervision of
LEROY DAVIDSON and PHILIPPA GERRY
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With the Assistance ofthe
Staffofthe Index of Twentieth-Century Artists College Art Association
New York City
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List of Halftone Plates
Captionsrefertopagegroups. Platesare
numbered in lower right-hand corner
and appear in their numerical order.
VOLUME
I
PLATE PLATE
I. Stone Architecture 31. Pompeii and Timgad
2. Brick Architecture Greek and Roman Portraits
3- Wood Architecture Moslem Architecture
4- Stone Sculpture 34- Moslem Decorative Art
5- Sculpture, Bronze and Wood 35- Hindu Architecture
6. Baked Clay (Terra Cotta) 2,(i. Chinese and Japanese Architecture
7. Fresco Painting 37. Chinese and Japanese Decorative Art
8. Painting: Tempera and Pastel 38. Buddhist Art
9. Oil Painting 39. Chinese and Japanese Painting
10. Glass 40. The Japanese Print
11. Iron 41. Early Christian Art
12. Engraving 42. Byzantine Architecture
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13. Prehistoric Art Cave Drawings 43. Byzantine Painting
14. Megalithic Monuments 44. French Romanesque Architecture
15. Egyptian Architecture 45. Romanesque Architecture Outside of France
16. Egyptian Sculpture 46. Romanesque Sculpture
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17. Egyptian Paintings and Bas Reliefs 47. Gothic Cathedrals France
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18. Sculpture ofAssyria and Chaldea 48. Gothic Cathedrals France
19. Greek Temples 49. Gothic Cathedrals Outside of France
20. Greek Sculpture Before Phidias 50. Flamboyant Gothic
21. The Acropolis ofAthens 51. Military Architecture
22. Decorative Sculpture Prior to the Parthenon 52. Mediaeval French Architecture
23. Phidias 53. French Sculpture of the Thirteenth Century
24. Scopas and Praxiteles 54. Sculpture at the End of the Middle Ages
25. Greek Sculpture After the Fifth Century 55. Ivory
26. Greek Terra Cotta Figurines 56. Giotto and Giottesque Painters
27. Greek Vases 57. Sienese Painters
28. Ancient Painting 58. Miniatures
29. Ancient Rome 59. The Van Eycks
30. Diffusion of Roman Art 60. Flemish Primitives
VOLUME
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PLATE PLATE
1. Late Flemish Primitives 12. Ghirlandajo and Botticelli
2. Spanish Primitives 13. Umbrian Painting
Rhenish Primitives 14. Painting in Venice in the Fifteenth Century
4- French Primitives 15. Mantegna
Florentine Architecture 16. From Bellini to Titian
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6. Venetian Architecture 17. Leonardo da Vinci
7. Rome of the Renaissance 18. Michelangelo
8. Ghiberti and Donatello 19. Raphael
9. Florentine Sculpture 20. Titian
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10. Masaccio and Filippo Lippi 21. Veronese and Tintoretto
11. Fra Angelico 22. Correggio and the School of Bologna
LIST OF HALFTONE PLATES
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PLATE
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23. Spanish Sculpture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 45. Sculpture from Bouchardon to Houdon
24. Flemish Painting in the Sixteenth Century 46. French Painting in the Eighteenth Century
25. German Renaissance Sculpture 47. French Painting in the Eighteenth Century
26. Albrecht Diirer and Holbein 48. English Painting in the Eighteenth Century
27. Chateaux of the Renaissance 49. The Painter Louis David
28. French Sculpture in the Sixteenth Century 50. The School of David
29. French City Halls 51. Sculpture of the Romantic Period
30. Enamel 52. French Sculpture at the End of the Nineteenth Century
31. Decorative Style of the Renaissance 53. Romantic Painting
32. Velazquez 54. Ingres and His School
33. Ribera and Murillo 55. The School of Fontainebleau
Rubens
34. 56. Realism and Impressionism
35. The School of Rubens 57. Decorative Painting
36. Holland: Painters of the People 58. Modern Painting, England and America
37. Dutch Landscape Painters 59. European Art in the Nineteenth Century
38. Rembrandt 60. The Exposition of Decorative Arts of 1925
39. French Art Under Louis XIII 61. American Art: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
40. Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain 62. American Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
41. Sculptors and Painters Under Louis XIV 62. American Art: Contemporary
42. Versailles 64. American Sculpture and Architecture
43. French Architecture in the Eighteenth Century 65. English Art: Survey
44. Decorative Art in the Eighteenth Century