A Text-Book of the History of Painting

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Text-Book of the History of Painting, by John C. Van DykeThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: A Text-Book of the History of PaintingAuthor: John C. Van DykeRelease Date: July 23, 2006 [EBook #18900]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF PAINTING ***Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: VELASQUEZ. HEAD OF SOP, MADRID.]� A TEXT-BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF PAINTING BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D. PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ART IN RUTGERS COLLEGE AND AUTHOR OF "ART FOR ART'S SAKE," "THE MEANING OF PICTURES," ETC. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 91 AND 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK LONDON, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1909 COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. * * * * *PREFACE.The object of this series of text-books is to provide conciseteachable ...