TABLE OF CONTENTS.

[INTRODUCTION.]
Taste—Principles of Imitative Art	1
SCULPTURE.
[CHAPTER I.]
Egyptian and Oriental Sculpture—Indian Monuments	15
[CHAPTER II.]
Early Schools of Greece—Perfection of Material Art	34
[CHAPTER III.]
Ideal Art—Phidias—Elgin Marbles—Methods of Composition Among the Greek Sculptors	49
[CHAPTER IV.]
School of Beauty—Lysippus and Praxiteles—Historical Remarks	60
[CHAPTER V.]
Sculpture in Ancient Italy—Etruscan Art—Roman Busts—Decline	69
[CHAPTER VI.]
Revival of Sculpture in Italy—Italian Republics—Influence of Liberty—Early Schools of Modern Art	79
[CHAPTER VII.]
Michael Angelo and his Contemporaries	84
[CHAPTER VIII.]
School of Bernini—Decline of Sculpture—Causes of Decay	94
[CHAPTER IX.]
Revival—Canova—Thorwaldsen—Flaxman—Conclusion	101
PAINTING.
[CHAPTER X.]
Ancient Painting—Schools of Greece—Zeuxis, Appelles—Historical Remarks	117
[CHAPTER XI.]
Modern Schools in Italy—Roman, Raphael—Florentine,Michael Angelo—Comparison between the two—LombardSchool, Coreggio—Venetian School, Titian—Eclectic School, Caracci	130
[CHAPTER XII.]
German School, Holbein, Daur—Flemish School, Rubens, Vandyke—Dutch School, Teniers—French School, David—Anecdote of Napoleon	154
[CHAPTER XIII.]
English School—Historical Remarks—Causes of Inferiority in the Art—Influence of the Reformation not Hostile to the Fine Arts in Britain, &c.	174
[CHAPTER XIV.]
English School continued—History—Portrait—Landscape—Reynolds—West—Wilson—Laurence—Defects of English Style—Conclusion	190
ARCHITECTURE.
[CHAPTER XV.]
Early History and Principles of Architectural Design—Egyptian—Syrian—Indian Architecture	227
[CHAPTER XVI.]
Greek Architecture—Three Orders: Doric Remains, Ionic Remains, Corinthian Remains—Roman Architecture—Decline	248
[CHAPTER XVII.]
Architecture of the Middle Ages—Divisions of the Gothic—Revival of Classic Architecture—Italian, French, and English Masters—Conclusion	278