Classicly Collection of Books

Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians

James Stevenson

During my visit to the Southwest, in the summer of 1885, it was my good fortune to arrive at the Navajo Reservation a few days before the commencement of a Navajo healing ceremonial. Learning of the p..

The Boy-Artist

F.M.S.

Alas! it was still in the window along with several others; a few butchers' boys, working-men, and ragged little girls were eagerly pressing their faces against the glass looking at the pictures, but ..

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture

John Ruskin

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture by John Ruskin. Preface by the author:I must pray the readers of the following Lectures to remember that the duty at present laid on ..

Artists' Wives

Alphonse Daudet

Artists' Wives is a romance novel by Alphonse Daudet. Excerpts from the book:Stretched at full length, on the great divan of a studio, cigar in mouth, two friends—a poet and a painter—were talking tog..

Field's Chromatography

George Field

Field's Chromatography by George Field. Excerpts from the book:How early, and to what extent, colouring may have attained the rank of science among the ancients, are questions not easily set at r..

A History of Art for Beginners and Students (Painting, Sculpture, Architecture)

Clara Erskine Clement Waters

No one can speak with exactness as to the time when sculpture was first practised by the Egyptians; we only know that it was a very long time ago. But we do know that in the time of the twelfth dynast..

French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

W. C. Brownell

French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. Brownell. Excerpts from the book:More than that of any other modern people French art is a national expression. It epitomizes ..

Great Artists, Vol 1 Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer

Jennie Ellis Keysor

The following brief sketches are presented in fear and in hope—in fear lest they prove in no wise adequate for so glorious a subject; in the hope that they may encourage not only the pupil, but the te..