ANECDOTES

OF

PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS

Sculptors and Architects,

AND

CURIOSITIES OF ART.

BY

S. SPOONER, M. D.,

AUTHOR OF "A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:
R. WORTHINGTON, Publisher,
770 Broadway.

COPYRIGHT, S. SPOONER, 1853.
Reëntered, G. B., 1880.


CONTENTS.

Titian—Sketch of his Life,1
Titian's Manners,5
Titian's Works,6
Titian's Imitators,7
Titian's Venus and Adonis,8
Titian and the Emperor Charles V.,10
Titian and Philip II.,13
Titian's Last Supper and El Mudo,14
Titian's Old Age,15
Monument to Titian,15
Horace Vernet,16
The Colosseum,29
Nineveh and its Remains,34
Description of a Palace Exhumed at Nimroud,37
Origin and Antiquity of the Arch,41
Antiquities of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiæ,43
Ancient Fresco and Mosaic Painting,55
Mosaic of the Battle of Platæa,55
The Aldobrandini Wedding,56
The Portland Vase,56
Ancient Pictures on Glass,...

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