Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts

1848. Contents: The Fine Arts; On the Criterion of Specific Style-On the Scriptural and Legendary Subjects of the Middle Ages; On the Origin of the Modern German School of Fresco Painting; The State and Prospects of the English School, considered with reference to the Promotion of Art in connection with the Rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament; Representation as distinguished from Description; Sculpture; Basso-Rilievo; Painting. Styles and Methods of Painting suited to the Decoration of Public Buildings; Life of Raphael; Notes from Kugler's Hand-Book. Note on the Subjects of the Paintings in the Cappella Sistina; Extracts from the Translation of Goethe's Theory of Colours; On the Decoration of a Villa: -Letter to Charles Lock Eastlake, Esq., R.A., etc., by H.B.K. and Mr. Eastlake's Answer.Eastlake, Charles Lock is the author of 'Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts', published 2007 under ISBN 9780548021453 and ISBN 0548021457.