The Louvre: Fifty Plates in Colour
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Louvre: Fifty Plates in Colour, by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody and Maurice W. Brockwell, Edited by T. Leman Hare
PLATE IV.—LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452–1519) FLORENTINE SCHOOL No. 1601.—PORTRAIT OF MONA LISA (La Joconde)
The portrait of Lisa di Anton Maria di Noldo Gherardini, third wife of Francesco di Bartolommeo de Zenobi del Giocondo. She is seated in a chair on which her left arm rests, her right hand superposed on the left. She is turned three-quarters to her right. Her hair, divided in the centre and seen under a transparent veil, falls in curls on her shoulders; her dark almond-shaped eyes look out at the spectator; the mouth is smiling. She wears a dark-green dress with golden-brown sleeves; a dark cloak is draped over her shoulders. The background is formed by a mountainous landscape full of incident. Painted in tempera on panel, and restored in oil. 2 ft. 6½ in. × 1 ft. 9 in. (0·79 × 0·53.)
By PAUL G. KONODY
AND
MAURICE W. BROCKWELL
JOINT-AUTHORS OF “THE NATIONAL GALLERY: ONE HUNDRED PLATES IN COLOUR”
Editor: T. LEMAN HARE
NEW YORK DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY 214–220 EAST 23RD STREET
THOSE who wish to make a thorough, comprehensive, and systematic study of the pictures of the great national collection contained in the Louvre, which extend from the early years of the fourteenth century down to almost the present day, will be well advised to deal with the artists by the countries, schools, and periods to which they belong. That is the scheme which we have followed here.
We do not hesitate to refer to painters, especially those of the Italian schools, under the names by which they are generally known to modern critics, as opposed to those under which they are officially catalogued by the Louvre authorities. Thus, Raphael, Titian, and Giulio Romano, and not Santi, Vecelli, and Pippi, are the names which we shall use in this book. Special attention is drawn to the fact that the official attributions of a certain number of the pictures, mainly of the Italian schools, and notably several by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian, are not accepted by us.
Paul G. Konody
Maurice W. Brockwell
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
EARLY SIENESE SCHOOL
DUCCIO’S FOLLOWERS
THE FLORENTINE SCHOOL
THE GIOTTESQUES
FRA ANGELICO
PAOLO UCCELLO
THE GOLDSMITH PAINTERS
LEONARDO DA VINCI
MONA LISA
BOTTICELLI
ALBERTINELLI
ANDREA DEL SARTO
THE LATER SIENESE SCHOOL
THE UMBRIAN SCHOOL
PERUGINO
RAPHAEL
THE VENETIAN SCHOOL
THE BELLINI
GIORGIONE
TITIAN
TITIAN’S FOLLOWERS
PAOLO VERONESE
THE PADUAN SCHOOL
ANDREA MANTEGNA
THE SCHOOL OF VERONA
THE SCHOOL OF FERRARA
THE SCHOOL OF MILAN
ANDREA SOLARIO
BERNARDINO LUINI
THE SCHOOL OF LOMBARDY
THE SCHOOL OF FERRARA-BOLOGNA
THE SCHOOL OF CREMONA
THE SCHOOL OF BRESCIA
THE SCHOOL OF MODENA
THE SCHOOL OF VICENZA
THE SCHOOL OF VERCELLI
THE SCHOOL OF PARMA
THE SCHOOL OF BOLOGNA
THE DECADENT SCHOOLS
THE “MANNERISTS”
THE “ECLECTICS”
THE “NATURALISTS”
THE EARLY FLEMISH SCHOOL
JAN VAN EYCK
THE SCHOOL OF TOURNAI
HANS MEMLINC
MEMLINC’S “VIRGIN AND CHILD, WITH DONORS”
GERARD DAVID
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
THE ANTWERP SCHOOL
BAREND VAN ORLEY
THE LATE FLEMISH SCHOOL
PIETER BRUEGHEL
JAN BRUEGHEL
THE FRANCK FAMILY
PETER PAUL RUBENS
RUBENS AT ANTWERP
THE MÉDICIS SERIES
MÉDICIS PORTRAITS
LATE WORKS BY RUBENS
ANTHONY VAN DYCK
VAN DYCK’S SECOND ANTWERP PERIOD
“LE ROI À LA CHASSE”
FRANS SNYDERS
JACOB JORDAENS
FOLLOWERS OF RUBENS
ADRIAEN BROUWER
DAVID TENIERS
PHILIPPE DE CHAMPAIGNE
VAN DER MEULEN
MINOR FLEMISH PAINTERS
THE GERMAN SCHOOL
“THE MASTER OF THE BARTHOLOMEW ALTAR”
COLOGNE PAINTERS
ALBRECHT DÜRER
DÜRER’S FOLLOWERS
LUCAS CRANACH
HANS HOLBEIN
THE KRATZER PORTRAIT
PORTRAIT OF ANNE OF CLEVES
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
THE SPANISH SCHOOL
LUIS DE DALMAU
LUIS MORALES
EL GRECO
THE SCHOOL OF SEVILLE
ZURBARÁN
RIBERA
VELAZQUEZ
THE INFANTA
MARIANA OF AUSTRIA
COPIES AND SCHOOL PICTURES
THE “MEETING OF THIRTEEN PEOPLE”
MURILLO
“THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION”
THE “BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN”
“THE ANGELS’ KITCHEN”
THE SCHOOL OF MADRID
GOYA
THE DUTCH SCHOOL
GERARD OF HAARLEM
SIR ANTONIS MOR
SPANISH OPPRESSION
HISTORY AND PORTRAIT PAINTERS
CORNELIS JANSSEN
FRANS HALS
DUTCH INDEPENDENCE
REMBRANDT
THE PUPILS OF REMBRANDT
VAN DER HELST
GENRE PAINTERS
ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE
GERARD DOU
DOU’S PUPILS
GERARD TERBORCH
JAN STEEN
PIETER DE HOOCH
NICOLAS MAES
GABRIEL METSU
LANDSCAPE PAINTERS
AELBERT CUYP
JACOB VAN RUISDAEL
HOBBEMA
PHILIPS WOUWERMAN
THE ITALIAN INFLUENCE
ARCHITECTURAL PAINTERS
MARINE PAINTERS
STILL-LIFE PAINTERS
THE DECLINE
THE EARLY FRENCH SCHOOL
THE MAÎTRE DE MOULINS
THE DE SOMZÉE “MAGDALEN”
JEAN FOUQUET
NICOLAS FROMENT
THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
JEAN CLOUET’S DRAWINGS
FRANÇOIS CLOUET
CORNEILLE DE LYON
THE SCHOOL OF FONTAINEBLEAU
JEAN COUSIN
THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
THE BROTHERS LE NAIN
NICOLAS POUSSIN
CLAUDE LORRAIN
LE SUEUR
CHARLES LE BRUN
PIERRE MIGNARD
LE BRUN’S FOLLOWERS
BATTLE PAINTERS
JEAN JOUVENET
THE PORTRAIT PAINTERS
LANDSCAPE PAINTERS
DESPORTES
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
GENRE PAINTERS
RAOUX AND DE TROY
WATTEAU
THE WATTEAUS IN THE LA CAZE GALLERY
WATTEAU’S FOLLOWERS
THE VAN LOO FAMILY
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER
SIMÉON CHARDIN
FRAGONARD
GREUZE
PORTRAIT PAINTERS
TOCQUÉ, VESTIER, AND LÉPICIÉ
JOSEPH VERNET
HUBERT ROBERT
LOUIS DAVID
THE “CORONATION” PICTURE
BARON GÉRARD
BARON GROS
PIERRE PRUD’HON
THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
GÉRICAULT
DELACROIX
DELACROIX’S ORIENTAL PICTURES
INGRES
DELAROCHE AND SCHEFFER
DECAMPS
THE ORIENTALISTS
REGNAULT
ACADEMIC PAINTERS
MICHEL AND HUET
THE BARBIZON SCHOOL
COROT
T. ROUSSEAU
C. TROYON
J. DUPRÉ
DIAZ
DAUBIGNY
MILLET
DAUMIER
COURBET
MEISSONIER
RICARD
MANET
THE BRITISH SCHOOL
CONSTABLE AND HIS IMITATORS
BONINGTON
RAEBURN
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE
OTHER PORTRAIT PAINTERS
I. INDEX OF ARTISTS
II. GENERAL INDEX
