APPENDIX
APPENDIX
LISTS OF BOOKS FOR A WORKING LIBRARY IN
ART STUDY
Note: A collection of books for art study should contain: (1) a general handbook of the art of every country; (2) separate monographs devoted to the work of those individual artists selected for study.
Both classes of books are of two kinds: (1) the brief outline which simplifies and popularizes the subject, (2) the exhaustive special treatise, representing a study of original sources.
The following two lists are made up with these distinctions in mind.
List I—For General Readers
General Histories
- Mrs. Jameson. Early Italian Painters. Revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll.
- H. H. Powers. Mornings with the Masters.
- Symonds. Renaissance in Italy. Volume on the Fine Arts.
- Julia Cartwright. The Painters of Florence.
- Sir Walter Armstrong. Art in Great Britain and Ireland.
- Sir Gaston Maspéro. Art in Egypt.
- Louis Hourtieq. Art in France.
- Comm. Ricci. Art in Northern Italy.
- Marcel Dieulafoy. Art in Spain and Portugal.
- Max Rooses. Art in Flanders.
- The last seven books are issued in the "General History of Art" series.
- Eugene Fromentin. Old Masters of Belgium and Holland.
- Translated by Mary C. Robbins.
- Charles H. Caffin. Story of Spanish Painting.
- Charles H. Cafffin. Story of French Painting.
- John La Farge. The Higher Life in Art. (Treating the French painters of Barbizon school.)
- Charles H. Caffin. Story of Dutch Painting.
- Charles H. Caffin. Story of American Painting.
- Isham. History of American Painting.
- G. H. Marius. Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century.
- Translated by Alexander de Matteo.
POPULAR ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
- John La Farge. Hundred Masterpieces.
- Esther Singleton’s compilations: Great Pictures, and Famous Paintings.
- Charles Barstow. Famous Pictures.
- Henry T. Bailey. Twelve Great Paintings.
- The Children’s Book of Art, by Agnes Ethel Conway and Sir Martin Conway. London, 1909. (The selections are chiefly from the National Gallery and from private collections in England.)
BOOKS ON SEPARATE ARTISTS
- Series: The Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture. Edited by G. C. Williamson. (Short biographical and critical monographs by reliable critics, carefully worked out, and made especially valuable by complete descriptive lists of the artists’ works, Well illustrated.)
- Riverside Art Series. By Estelle M. Hurll, Twelve volumes. (Each volume contains sixteen selected illustrations of an individual artist with simple descriptive commentary, A biographical outline and an essay summing up the artist’s character and place in art history are special features.)
List II—For Serious students
GENERAL HISTORIES
Vasari. Lives of the Painters (Italian). In four volumes. Edited by E. H. and E. W. Blashfield and A. A. Hopkins.
- The original source of all our information about the
- old Italian masters. Brought up to date with corrections and valuable critical commentary.
- Crowe and Cavalcaselle. History of Painting in Italy.
- Edited by Edward Hutton. In three volumes.
- Kugler. Handbook of the Italian Schools. Revised by A. H. Layard. In two volumes.
- Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. Annals of the Artists of Spain.
- Kugler. Handbook of the Germany Flemish, and Dutch Schools. Revised by J. A. Crowe. In two volumes.
- Clara Cornelia Stranahan. History of French Painting.
- W. C. Brownell. French Art.
- Allan Cunningham. Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters. Revised by Mrs. Charles Heaton.
BOOKS ON SEPARATE ARTISTS
- Symonds. Michelangelo Buonarotti.
- Eugene Miintz. Leonardo da Vinci.
- Eugene Muntz. Raphael.
- Corrado Ricci. Correggio.
- Claude Phillips. Titian.
- Charles B. Curtis. Velasquez and Murillo.
- Carl Justi. Velasquez.
- R. A. M. Stevenson. Velasquez. (In series, "Great Masters of Painting and Sculpture." Very original and remarkable.)
- Lionel Cust. Albert Durer, A Study of His Life and Work.
- Emile Michel. Rembrandt; His Life, His Work, His Time.
- Translated by Florence Simmonds.
- Gerald Stanley Davies. Frans Hals.
- Emile Michel. Rubens; His Life, His Work, His Time.
- Lionel Cust. Van Dyck.
- Sir Walter Armstrong. Reynolds.
- Thomas Humphrey and William Roberts. Romney.
- Sir Walter Armstrong. Gainsborough.
- Julia Cartwright. Millet.
- René Peyrol. Rosa Bonheur.
- John Guille Millais. Sir John Millais's Life and Letters.
- Malcolm Bell. Burne-Jones: A Record and a Review.
- Emilie Isabel Barrington. Sir Frederick Leighton: The Life, Letters, and Work.
- Mary S. Watts. George Frederick Watts. The Annals of an Artist's Life. His Writings.