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قراءة كتاب Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)
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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)
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ANECDOTES
OF
PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS
Sculptors and Architects,
AND
CURIOSITIES OF ART.
BY
S. SPOONER, M. D.,
AUTHOR OF "A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS."
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
NEW YORK:
R. WORTHINGTON, Publisher,
770 Broadway.
COPYRIGHT, S. SPOONER, 1853.
Reëntered, G. B., 1880.
CONTENTS.
| Egyptian Art, | 1 |
| Ancient Thebes, | 2 |
| The Temple of Carnac, | 5 |
| Temple of Luxor, | 5 |
| The Statues of Memnon, | 6 |
| Heliopolis, | 7 |
| Memphis, | 8 |
| Lake Moeris, | 9 |
| The Colossal Sphinx, | 10 |
| The Labyrinth of Egypt, | 11 |
| The Catacombs of Egypt, | 12 |
| The Pyramids of Egypt, | 19 |
| Perilous Ascent of the Pyramid of Cephren, | 27 |
| Egyptian Obelisks, | 30 |
| Removal of an Obelisk by Fontana, | 33 |
| Removal of an Obelisk from Thebes to Paris, | 40 |
| Carburi's Base for the Equestrian Statue of Peter the Great, | 42 |
| Comparative Skill of the Ancients and Moderns in Mechanics, | 45 |
| The Britannia Tubular Railway Bridge, | 46 |
| The Tubes, | 47 |
| Construction of the Tubes, | 49 |
| Floating the Tubes, | 50 |
| Raising the Tubes, | 52 |
| Glory of Ancient Rome, | 57 |
| The Capitol, | 59 |
| Modern Rome, | 60 |
| The Foundation of Venice, | 72 |
| Theodoric the Great, and his Love of the Fine Arts, | 73 |
| The Trials of Genius—Filippo Brunelleschi, | 80 |
| Brunelleschi's Enthusiasm, | 122 |
| Brunelleschi and Donatello, |