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Title: The Old Masters and Their Pictures
For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
Author: Sarah Tytler
Release Date: November 19, 2006 [EBook #19863]
Language: English
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THE OLD MASTERS AND THEIR PICTURES
_For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art_
BY SARAH TYTLER
AUTHOR OF "PAPERS FOR THOUGHTFUL GIRLS" ETC.
_NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION_
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LONDON
ISBISTER AND COMPANY LIMITED
15 & 16 TAVISTOCK STREET COVENT GARDEN
1893
[_The Right of Translation is Reserved_]
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J.S. VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED,
CITY ROAD.
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
I wish to say, in a very few words, that this book is intended to be a
simple account of the great Old Masters in painting of every age and
country, with descriptions of their most famous works, for the use of
learners and outsiders in art. The book is not, and could not well be,
exhaustive in its nature. I have avoided definitions of schools,
considering that these should form a later and more elaborate portion of
art education, and preferring to group my 'painters' according to what I
hold to be the primitive arrangements of time, country, and rank in
art.
PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
The restrictions with regard to space under which the little volume
called "The Old Masters" was originally written, caused me to omit, to
my regret, many names great, though not first, in art. The circulation
which the book has attained induces me to do what I can to remedy the
defect, and render the volume more useful by adding two chapters--the
one on Italian and the other on German, Dutch, and Flemish masters.
These chapters consist almost entirely of condensed notes taken from two
trustworthy sources, to which I have been already much indebted--Sir C,
and Lady Eastlake's version of Kugler's "Handbook of Italian Art," and
Dr. Waagen's
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