Lectures On Art The Philosophy Of Art The Ideal Of Art Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Lectures on Art WE have now to consider the glorious epoch which men are agreed to look upon as the most beautiful of Italian creation, and which comprises, along with the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the first thirty or forty years of the sixteenth. Within this narrow limit the most accomplished artists flourished, -leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Mi chael Angelo, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolomeo, Giorgione, Titian, Sebastian del Piombo, and Cor reggio; and this limit is clearly defined; and if you look backward or forward of it, you find it pre ceded by eu incomplete art, and succeeded by a degenerate art; hitherto by those groping, and who are as yet dry, stiff and colorless, - Paolo Uccello, Antonio Pollaiolo, Fra Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandaijo Verocchio, Mantegna, Perugino, Giovanni Bellini. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lectures on Art: The Philosophy of Art; The Ideal of Art Philosophy of Art, seven years ago, in London, its author has become deservedly popular, and especially in this country. His writings are sought for, read and translated both in England and on the continent of Europe, and it would be but refining gold to say aught in his praise. Like every man of genius he has, as time moves on, improved in his order of thought and in his won derfully artistic style. His latest work, On Ih telligence, ranks him as high among thinkers, as his former works among men of letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Philosophy of Art These lectures, as a system of zesthetics, consist of an application of the experimental method to art, in the same manner as it is applied to the sciences. Whatever utility the system possesses is due to this principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.