The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers, Edited by Esther Singleton
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
Release Date: January 7, 2006 [eBook #17478]
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT PICTURES, AS SEEN AND DESCRIBED BY FAMOUS WRITERS
***E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/)
Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17478-h.htm or 17478-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/4/7/17478/17478-h/17478-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/4/7/17478/17478-h.zip)
Bracketted lower case letters refer to notes at the end of the text{ a}
At the end of this text I have provided some links to Internet sites which have more information about some of the artists, some of which may have color images similar to the ones presented in this book.
Author of "Turrets, Towers, and Temples" and Translator of "The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner"
[Illustration: FISHERMAN PRESENTING THE RING TO THE DOGE GRADENIGO. _Bordone._]
New York Dodd, Mead and Company Copyright, 1899 By Dodd, Mead and Company
The cordial reception of "Turrets, Towers, and Temples" has encouraged me to hope that a welcome may be given to a book treating the masterpieces of painting in a similar manner.
Great writers and literary tourists have occasionally been inspired to record the impressions of their saunterings among galleries and museums. The most interesting of these, not necessarily professional, I have tried to bring together in the following pages. My object has been not to make a selection of the greatest pictures in the world, although many that have that reputation will be found here, but rather to bring together those that have produced a powerful impression on great minds. Consequently, when the reader is disturbed at the omission of some world-famous painting, I beg him to remember my plan and blame the great writers instead of me for neglecting his favourite.