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the Individual. Effect of Nature upon Susceptible
Temperaments. - The Way to approach True Art. -
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priates Art.
Subordinate.
CHAPTER V.
The
Primary Relation of Art to Religion. — Priestcraft appro-
Origin of Sculpture. Painting at first
Primary Significance of Color.
Rainbow as a Symbol. Object of Art in Egypt,
India, — China. - Definition of Spirit and Spiritual. —
Want of Art among the Hebrews. Its Development
in Greece. Gradual Divorce from Sacerdotalism. -
Final Freedom of the Artist. Result..
CHAPTER VI.
Origin of Mythology.
Emancipation from Egyptian Art. — Examples. — The
Egyptian Apollo. — The great Law of Change as ap-
plied to Art.-Antagonistic Qualities of Greek and
Egyptian Art.-How we are to judge of Past Art.
Analysis of the Causes of the Perfection of Grecian
Art. Reaction of Philosophy vs. Polytheism. - Gre-
cian Faith and Art perish together. - Rise of Mono-
theism. Effect upon Art. - Christianity repeats the
Practice of Paganism. - Better Seed. - New Unfold-
ings of Faith, followed by Relapse to Primitive Igno-
rance in Art.-Laws and Examples of Grecian Art .. 23
CHAPTER VII.
Christian Art-Motive. - The Three Phases of Christian
Art.- Objections to Generalization. - Necessity for.
The Protestants of the Dark Ages. The Dawning
Phase. Comparison between Grecian and Christian
Art, in Character and Execution. Examples. The
Laokoon. Dying Gladiator. - Sensualism of Chris-
tian Art. Whence derived. - Art-Aspect of Oriental
Symbolism. Dante. - Milton. - Orgagna. — Michel
Angelo.-Their Works as Art and Illustrations of Chris-
tian Ideas. - Phidias. Apollo de Belvedere. - Flora
of Naples. Torso de Belvedere. Elgin Marbles. -
Perfect Art. - Bad Art.- The Demand of the Present
Age. - Ideal in Art a Comparative Term. - Pietà of
Michel Angelo. - Domenichino's St. Jerome. — Ra-
phael's Transfiguration. God and Christ as Art-Ob-
jects. Christ of Michel Angelo.- Tenerani: Saviour,
Angel, and Descent from the Cross.
Pagan Ascetic
Art. The Diogenes of Naples. - Christian Ascetic
Art.-The St. Jerome of Agostino Carracci.
- Heathen
and Christian Grotesque compared. — Il Penseroso.... 46
CHAPTER VIII.
The Comparison of Classical and Christian Art continued.
Different Treatment and Love of Landscape.
Christian Art excels in Idea and Comprehensiveness. -
Mythology and God the "Father" as Art-Inspirations.
- Roman Catholic Art tends to Polytheism, - Classical
Philosophical Art to Monotheism. - Art-Deities of the
Roman Church. Causes of Image-Worship ........ 77
CHAPTER IX.
Architecture, the Culmination of Art, is to Man what
Nature is to God. - Nature not Perfect, but Progres-
sive. Definition of Perfection
CHAPTER X.
Analogy between Nature and Architecture, as the Respec-
tive Creations of God and Man.-Life-Motives of Na-
tions to be read in their Architecture. - Relation of
Art-Monuments to the Religious or Governing Thoughts
in Central America, Mexico, Peru, China, Hindostan,
Egypt, Assyria. The Peculiar Inspiration of the.
Earliest Architecture. — Pelasgic. — Etruscan. - Gre-
cian. Roman. -Romanesque, Lombard, Byzantine.-
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CONTENTS.
Gothic.- Meaning and Aim. — Defects and Causes.
Influence of the Roman Church over it.
Renaissant
and Palatial Styles.
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CHAPTER XI.
Classical and Christian Domestic Art compared. — Influ-
ence of Climate upon Art,- of Race. - Why Chris-
tianity prefers Painting to Sculpture.-Respective Mer-
its of the Two. Classical Taste delights in Human
Figure, ― Modern Taste, in Landscape. - The Refor-
mation and Northern Schools. Protestantism and
Romanism as Art-Motives
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CHAPTER XII.
What Protestantism offers to Art.-Its Scope of Idea,
- Identification with the People, Fashion, - Prom-
ise. Dutch School. - English School. - Turner.
Blake. Pre-Raphaelitism. The German, Belgian,
and French Schools, and their Chief Artists..
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CHAPTER XIII.
An Inquiry into the Art-Conditions and Prospects of
America. -Art-Criticism. - Press, People, and Cler-
152
gy. Needs of Artists and Public. — American Know-
nothingism in Art.- Eclecticism. The True Path.. 171
Painting and the Early Painters of America. - Benja-
min West; Copley; Leslie; Trumbull; Sully; Peale;
Stuart; Mount; Vanderlyn; Cole; Washington All-
The Dusseldorf Element.
American Pre-Raphaelites. - Italian Influ-
ence.
- Tilten; Page; Wight; C. G. Thompson. -
The French-American Element. · Genre Artists.
Eastman Johnson; Hinckley; Beard; Thorndike;
Dana; Cole; Hunt; La Farge; Babcock. The Acad-
emicians. - Gray; Huntington; Wier. - Portraiture.
- Elliot; Healey; Ames. -Landscapists. - Church;
Bierstadt; Kensett; Gifford; Cropsey; Sontag; Gi-
noux; Heade; G. L. Brown; Bradford; Inness; Dar-
ley; Billings; Nast; Vedder. Naturalism, Realism,
and Idealism compared and illustrated. — Summary.. 211
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CHAPTER XVI.
The American School of Sculpture. Its Origin..
Greenough. Modern Motives. - Sculpture as a Trade.
-Clark Mills; Powers; Crawford; Dexter; King.
Chantrey's Washington. - Our Portrait - Statues.
Those of the Ancients. - Randolf Rogers. - The
Gates of Paradise, of the Capitol. - Ball; Brown;
Harriet Hosmer; Miss Stebbins; John Rogers; Dr.
Rimmer; Paul Akers; Palmer; William Story; Ward.
Conclusion.
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CHAPTER XVII.
Review of American Architecture, Past and Present.
The Prospect before it. Summary of Fundamental
Principles...
286
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Art-Idea is the Beautifier of Civilization. - Duty of
Individuals. Central Park vs. Harvard College.
The Institutions America needs. Selfishness of the
American "Home." The Abuse of the "Family"
Spirit. New York. — Boston. - Mount Auburn.·
Puritan Love of Beauty. - How Exhibited. - Street-
Cars. Shop - Windows. - Manners. - What Boston
enjoys. — What she has thrown away. - Conclusion.. 315
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CHAPTER XIX.
Art-Institutions and Art-Education in Europe and Amer-
ica.....
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CHAPTER XX.
Review of the Art-Phase of Civilization, as derived from
Greece and Judea. The Future of Art based upon
Protestant Freedom. - Quality of the Artistic Mind. -
Of the Scientific Need of Art.- Radical Difference be-
tween Science and Art. The Intellectual Repose of
the Scientific Mind, -the Passional Unrest of the Ar-
tistic. Analysis of Causes and Results.- What Sci-
ence can do. Legitimate Sources.
What Cultivation requires..
APPENDIX......
Highest Art.-
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