tailieunhanh - ARIADNE FLORENTINA

The entrance on my duty for to-day begins the fourth year of my official work in Oxford; and I doubt not that some of my audience are asking themselves, very doubtfully—at all events, I ask myself, very anxiously—what has been done. For practical result, I have not much to show. I announced, a fortnight since, that I would meet, the day before yesterday, any gentleman who wished to attend this course for purposes of study. My class, so minded, numbers four, of whom three wish to be artists, and ought not therefore, by rights, to be at Oxford at. | ARIADNE FLORENTINA. SIX LECTURES ON WOOD AND METAL ENGRAVING WITH APPENDIX. GIVEN BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN MICHAELMAS TERM 1872. CONTENTS. LECTURE I. PAGE DEFINITION OF THE ART OF ENGRAVING LECTURE II. THE RELATION OF ENGRAVING TO OTHER ARTS IN FLORENCE LECTURE III. THE TECHNICS OF WOOD ENGRAVING LECTURE IV. THE TECHNICS OF METAL ENGRAVING LECTURE V. DESIGN IN THE GERMAN SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING HOLBEIN AND DURER LECTURE VI. DESIGN IN THE FLORENTINE SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING SANDRO BOTTICELLI APPENDIX. ARTICLE I. NOTES ON THE PRESENT STATE OF ENGRAVING IN ENGLAND II. DETACHED NOTES LIST OF PLATES Facing Page Diagram The Last Furrow Fig. 2 . Facsimile from Holbein s woodcut The Two Preachers Fig. 3 . Facsimile from Holbein s woodcut I. Things Celestial and Terrestrial as apparent to the English mind II. Star of Florence III. At evening from the top of Fesole IV. By the Springs of Parnassus V. Heat considered as a Mode of Motion. Florentine Natural Philosophy VI. Fairness of the Sea and Air. In Venice and Athens The Child s Bedtime Fig. 5 . Facsimile from Holbein s woodcut He that hath ears to hear let him hear Fig. 6 . Facsimile from Holbein s woodcut VII. For a time and times VIII. The Nymph beloved of Apollo Michael Angelo IX. In the Woods of Ida X. Grass of the Desert XI. Obediente Domino voci hominis XII. The Coronation in the Garden Pg 1 ARIADNE FLORENTINA. LECTURE I. DEFINITION OF THE ART OF .