ARTIST-BIOGRAPHIES.
DÜRER.
BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, OSGOOD, AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1879.
Copyright.
By JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
1877.
FRANKLIN PRESS:
RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,
BOSTON.
ARTIST-BIOGRAPHIES.
PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT.
The growth of a popular interest in art and its history has been veryrapid during the last decade of American life, and is still inprogress. This interest is especially directed towards the lives ofartists themselves; and a general demand exists for a uniform seriesof biographies of those most eminent, which shall possess thequalities of reliability, compactness, and cheapness.
To answer this demand the present series has been projected. Thepublishers have intrusted its preparation to Mr. M. F. Sweetser, whosequalities of thoroughness in research and fidelity in statement havebeen proved in other fields of authorship. It is believed that by theomission of much critical and discursive matter commonly found in artbiographies, an account of an artist’s life may be presented, which isat once truthful and attractive, within the limits prescribed forthese volumes.
The series will be published at the rate of one or two volumes eachmonth, at 50 cents each volume, and will contain the lives of the mostfamous artists of mediæval and modern times. It will include the livesof many of the following:—
| Raphael, | Claude, | Van Dyck, |
| Michael Angelo, | Poussin, | Gainsborough, |
| Leonardo da Vinci, | Delacroix, | Reynolds, |
| Titian, | Delaroche, | Wilkie, |
| Tintoretto, | Greuze, | Lawrence, |
| Paul Veronese, | Dürer, | Landseer, |
| Guido, | Rubens, | Turner, |
| Murillo, | Rembrandt, | West, |
| Velasquez, | Holbein, | Copley, |
| Salvator Rosa, | Teniers, | Allston. |