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Title: A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Painting

Author: Clara Erskine Clement

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A HISTORY OF ART FOR BEGINNERS AND STUDENTS

Painting--Sculpture--Architecture

With Complete Indexes and Numerous Illustrations

by

CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT

Author of "Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art,"
"Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, Architects and Their Works,"
"Artists of the Nineteenth Century," Etc.

[Illustration]

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
MDCCCXCI

Copyright, 1887,
by Frederick A. Stokes,
Successor to White, Stokes, & Allen.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
ANCIENT PAINTING, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
TO THE CHRISTIAN ERA, 1
EGYPT, 3
ASSYRIA, 9
BABYLON, 11
ANCIENT GREECE AND ITALY, 13
MOSAICS, 34
PAINTINGS ON STONE, 36
VASE-PAINTING, 36

CHAPTER II.

MEDIAEVAL PAINTING, FROM THE BEGINNING
OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE RENAISSANCE, 41
THE EARLY PERIOD, 42
THE CENTRAL, OR ROMANESQUE PERIOD, 50
THE FINAL, OR GOTHIC PERIOD,