Classicly Collection of Books

Histoire des plus célèbres amateurs italiens et de leurs relations avec les artistes

Jules Dumesnil

Much has been written about artists, and there are, in almost every language, a large number of books on their lives and works; but one would look in vain for one on the amateurs. It is scarcely in th..

Honor de artista

Octave Feuillet

One of the noblest names of the old France, the Odón de Pierrepont, was taken, and well taken, around 1875, by the Marquis Pedro Armando, who was then thirty years old, and was the last male descendan..

How to Enjoy Paris in 1842

F. Hervé

How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 by F. Hervé. Preface from the book:In offering the following pages to the public, the author has been principally influenced by a desire of uniting useful information with t..

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

W. Blanchard Jerrold

The money to found a British Museum was raised by a lottery in the middle of the last century. Sir Hans Sloane having offered his books and museum of natural history to Parliament, for less than half ..

Les femmes d'artistes

Alphonse Daudet

It was time for effusions, confidences. The lamp shone lightly under the lampshade, limiting its circle of flame to the intimacy of conversation, leaving barely distinct the capricious luxury of the v..

Letters to Helen

Keith Henderson

Excerpts:These letters were never intended for publication. But when the pictures were brought back from France it was suggested that they should be reproduced, and a book evolved. Then a certain pers..

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard is dead, or should we say, has gone on his last Little Journey to the Great Beyond. But the children of his fertile brain still live and will continue to live and keep fresh the memory ..

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 3

Giorgio Vasari

Excerpts from the book:There was at this same time in Florence a painter of most beautiful intelligence and most lovely invention, namely, Filippo, son of Fra Filippo of the Carmine, who, following in..