Art and Architecture, illustrated

From Vitruvius to Rembrandt to Raphael, this CD contains 98 books about art and architecture.

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These books are organized into the following sections: Art in General, Theory of Art and Taste in Art, Art by Country and Period and Style and Subject, Art by Medium, Artists, and Architecture.

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Table of Contents

Art in General

• Art by Clive Bell, html file ILLUSTRATED
• L'Art Russe by Viollet le Duc
• Artist and Public and Other Essays by Kenyon Cox
• Lectures on Art by John Ruskin
• Lectures on Art by Washington Allston
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists, volume 6, by Elbert Hubbard
• Pictures Every Child Should Know by Dolores Bacon, html file ILLUSTRATED
• Since Cezanne by Clive Bell
• The Two Paths by John Ruskin
• Women in the Fine Arts by Clara Erskine Clement

Theory of Art and Taste in Art

• Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
• An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste by Frances Reynolds, 1785
• Essays on Taste by John Cooper, 1757 and John Armstrong, 1770
• The Mind of the Artist, compiled by Mrs. Lawrence Binyon
• The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Puffer
• Seven Discourses on Art by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Art by Country and Period and Style and Subject

• Du Style Gothique au 19th Siecle by Viollet Le Duc
• The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance by Bernhard Berenson
• French Art by W.C. Brownell, 1892
• The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair
• Knights of the Arts: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman
• The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. Hurll, html file ILLUSTRATED
• The Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts by John Addinton Symonds, 1899
• The Renaissance in Italy: Volume 1, The Age of Despots by John Addington Symonds
• The Renaissance in Italy: The Catholic Reaction by John Addington Symonds
• Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece (complete) by John Addington Symonds
• Some Old Time Beauties by Thomas Willing, 1895
• The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
• Val d'Arno by John Ruskin

Art by Medium

• The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay, 1922
• Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians by James Stevenson, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization by John Ruskin
• Great Pictures as Seen and Described by Famous Writers, edtied by Esther Singleton, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• \The History and Practice of the Art of Photography by Henry Snelling
• The Illustrated History of Furniture by Frederick Litchfield, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W.T. Vincent, 1896, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Modern Painting by George Moore
• The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition by Stella Perry
• Scultpture of the Exposition (short) by Juelt James
• Search of Gravestones by W.T. Vincent, 1896
• Sketches by Robert Seymour, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John C. Van Dyke, html file, ILLUSTRATED

Artists

• Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects, and Curiosities of Art by S. Spooner, 1853
• Albrecht Durer
• Albrecht Durer's Memoirs of Journeys to Venice
• Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
• Cellini
• Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
• Correggio
• Correggio by Estelle M. Hurll, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Brockwell, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Jean Paul Richter
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Donatello
• Donatello by Lord Balcarres, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Giorgione
• Giorgione by Herbert Cook, 1904, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Giotto
• Giotto and His Works by John Ruskin
• Michelangelo
• Michelangelo by Estell Hurll, 1900, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Michael Angelo Buonnotti by Charles Holroyd
• Millet
• Jean Francois Millet by Estelle Hurll, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Raphael
• Raphael edited by Estelle Hurll, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Rembrandt
• Rembrandt by Mortimer Menpes
• Rembrandt by Estelle Hurl, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Frank Reynolds
• Frank Reynolds by A.E. Johnson, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Joshua Reynolds
• Sir Joshua Reynolds by Estelle Hurll, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Titian
• The Earlier Work of Titian by Claude Phillips, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• The Later Works of Titian by Claude Phillips, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Van Dyck
• Van Dyck by Estelle Hurll, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Watts
• Watts (1817-1904) by W. Loftus Hare
• Benjamin West
• The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West by John Galt

Architecture

• American Architecture and Building News, Jan. 11, 1890
• Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon, 1918
• Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition [Panama-Pacific International Exposition] 1915
• The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, all html files, ALL ILLUSTRATED
• January 1895
• February 1895
• March 1895
• April 1895
• May 1895
• June 1895
• July 1895
• August 1895
• October 1895
• November 1895
• The Beautiful Necessity -- seven essays on theosophy and architeture by Calude Bragdon
• Cathedral Church of Chichester by Hubert Corlette, 1901
• The Cathedral Church of Exeter by Percy Addleshaw
• The Cathedral Church of Hereford by A. Hugh Fisher
• The Cathedral Church of Peterborough by Rev. W.D. Sweeting
• The Cathedral Church of St. Albans by Thomas Perkins
• The Cathedral Church of York by a. Clutton-Brock
• The Churches of Coventry by Frederic Woodhouse, 1909
• City of Domes, a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama Pacific International Exposition by John Barry
• Compte de l'Oeuvre de la Cathedrale de Chartre en 1415-1416 by M.L. Merlet, 1889, in French
• The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by John Overton
• The House that Jill Built After Jack's Had Proved a Failure: a Book on Home Architecture by E.C. Gardner, 1896
• Old St. Paul's Cathedral by William Benham, 1902
• Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality
• The Poetry of Architecture by John Ruskin
• Rural Architecture, being a complete description of farm houses, cottages and out buildings by Lewis F. Allen, 1952
• A Study of Pueblo Archicature: Tusayan and Cibola by Victor Mindeleff
• Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius (c. 70/80 BC - c. 25 BC)
• Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory by Thomas Perkins