Apollo : an illustrated manual of the history of art throughout the ages / by S. Reinach ... from the French, by Florence Simmonds.

  • Salomon Reinach
Date:
1910
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Credit: Apollo : an illustrated manual of the history of art throughout the ages / by S. Reinach ... from the French, by Florence Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PAGE I. -THE ORIGIN OF ART I Art a Social Phenomenon. The Art of the Sacagc anJ of the Child akin.—Primitive Manifestations of the Artistic Instinct. Art in the Quaternary Period. The Art of the Reindeer Hunters.— Prehistoric Paintings in Cave Dwellings. The Caves of Peri- gord and of the Pyrenees.—The Magic Element in Primitive Works of Art. II. -ART IN THE POLISHED STONE AND BRONZE AGES ... 9 The Extinction of the Art of the Reindeer Hunters. Primitive Dwellings; rude Elint Implements. Lacustrine Dwellings and Polished Stone 1 mplements. Dolmens, Men- hirs, Cromlechs. Domestication of Animals and Culture of Cereals, hirst Use of Metals. The Bronze Age. Tumuli of Gavrinis, Morbihan, and New Grange, Ireland. —The Absence of Animal Eorms in the Decoration of the Bronze Age. High Degree of Excellence in Linear Decoration of this Period. Stonehenge. The Second Stone Age in Egypt. Pre-Pharaonic Art: Painted Vases discovered at Abydos and Nega- dah (Upper Egypt). Primitive Art in the Grecian Archipelago. Babylon and Egypt the Precursors of Classic Art. III. -EGYPT, CHALD/EA, AND PERSIA 17 Art in Egypt under the Pharaohs. The Saite Revival. The Characteristics of Egyptian Art. Egyptian Temples. Karnak- Egyptian Statues, figurines. Bas-reliefs, and Paintings in Tombs. The Scribe in the Louvre. Conventions of Egyptian .‘irt. Lange's Law of Frontality. Egyptian Decorative Motives. The Idea of Duration dominant in Egyptian Art. Chaldaan Art: The Monuments of Tello. near Bas- sorah.—Assyrian Art: The Bas-reliefs of the Palace of Nineveh. Assyrian Palaces. — Type of Assyrian Temples. Persian Art: The Palaces of Susa and Persepolis. T/ie Frieze of Archers in the Louvre. Hittite Art based on that of Assyria. The Phoenicians: Purely I ndustrialCharacler of their Art. ] ewish Art derived from that of Assyria.— The Antiquity of Indian and Chinese Art a Delusion. Both derived from Greece. IV. -7EGEAN, MINOAN, AND MYCEN/EAN ART: TROY. CRETE, AND MYCEN/E 30 Primitive Art in the Grecian Archipelago. Its Tendency to reproduce the Human Form. —Schliemann's Excavations at Hissarlik ( Troy), Mycence, and Tiryns. The Golden Vases of Vaphio—Excavations made by Mr. Arthur Evans in Crete. Discovery of Minos' Palace, the Labyrinth. Discovery of the Palace of Phcestus. The Three Periods of Prehistoric Greek Art. Destruction of the .Mycencean Civilisation by Bar- barians. -Mycensan Refugees in the Islands of the Archipelago.—The Hellenic Middle Ages.—Cyclopean Walls.—The Gate of thi Lions at Mycence. Minoan and Mycenaan Bas-reliefs and Metal-work. Animation the Distinguishing Character- istic of Minoan Art.