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Title: The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Sandhurst, Phillip T
Subjects: Painting -- History
Publisher: N.Y., Worthington
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Peter to himself to be painted on the wall of the basilica of St. Paul. Thiswork, begun in the fifth century, has lasted to our own day, having been spared inthe great fire which destroyed the greater part of that edifice in 1S24; and Lanzijustly quotes it in proof of the assertion with which he begins his book: That Italywas not without painters, even during the dark ages, appears not only from history,but from various pictures that have resisted the attacks of time. Rome still retainssome of very ancient date. In the Liber Pontificalis, Anastasius the librarian, or whoever else may be theauthor of that book, gives a very complete detail of the sculpture, the carving, andthe works in gold and silver in the churches founded by Constantine. As for thepaintings, of which he also speaks, they have all perished except the mosaics andfrescoes in the Christian catacombs. But Anastasius speaks of the new kind ofpainting, which was just becoming fashionable, in those times when metals alone
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SAMSON AND THE LION. (From the original painting by Albert Durer.) a.d. 700.) CHARLEMAGNE. ig were considered valuable ; I mean painting in embroidery, that is to say, workedwith gold and silver threads on silk stuffs. He speaks among other things of achasuble of Pope Honorius I., A. d. 625, the embroidery on which represented theDeliverance of St. Peter and the Assumption of the Virgin. The art of embroidery had been brought from the East by the Greeks of Byzan-tium. It was known to the ancient Greeks, even from the earliest times, as isevidenced by the tapestry of Penelope, wherein figures were represented in differentcolours. It was also known to the Romans, according to Ciceros allusion whenreproaching Verres with his thefts in Sicily ( neque ullam picturam, neque in tabula,neque textili fuisse). In the time of St. John Chrysostom (fourth century), the togaof a Christian senator contained as many as six hundred figures, which made theeloquent orator say with grief, All our admirat

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