Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)

by Shearjashub Spooner

Chapters (251)

ANECDOTES 0:00
PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS: Sculptors and Architects, 0:03
S. SPOONER, M. D., 0:13
TITIAN,—SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. 0:37
TITIAN'S MANNERS. 5:27
TITIAN'S WORKS. 7:05
TITIAN'S IMITATORS. 9:00
TITIAN'S VENUS AND ADONIS. 9:23
TITIAN AND THE EMPEROR CHARLES V. 12:17
TITIAN AND PHILIP II. 16:56
TITIAN'S LAST SUPPER AND EL MUDO. 17:58
TITIAN'S OLD AGE. 18:57
MONUMENT TO TITIAN. 19:54
HORACE VERNET. 20:28
THE COLOSSEUM. 38:30
NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS. 45:22
DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE EXHUMED AT NIMROUD. 49:10
ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE ARCH. 55:53
ANTIQUITIES OF HERCULANEUM, POMPEII, AND STABIÆ. 58:23
ANCIENT FRESCO AND MOSAIC PAINTING. 1:15:01
MOSAIC OF THE BATTLE OF PLATÆA. 1:15:32
THE ALDOBRANDINI WEDDING. 1:16:15
THE PORTLAND VASE. 1:16:46
ANCIENT PICTURES OF GLASS. 1:18:56
HENRY FUSELI—HIS BIRTH. 1:20:23
FUSELI'S EARLY LOVE OF ART. 1:21:03
FUSELI'S LITERARY AND POETICAL TASTE. 1:21:48
FUSELI, LAVATER, AND THE UNJUST MAGISTRATE. 1:22:38
FUSELI'S TRAVELS, AND HIS LITERARY DISTINCTION. 1:23:51
FUSELI'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON. 1:25:24
FUSELI'S CHANGE FROM LITERATURE TO PAINTING. 1:26:11
FUSELI'S SOJOURN IN ITALY. 1:28:09
FUSELI'S "NIGHTMARE." 1:29:28
FUSELI'S "ŒDIPUS AND HIS DAUGHTERS." 1:30:15
FUSELI AND THE SHAKSPEARE GALLERY. 1:30:56
FUSELI'S "HAMLET'S GHOST." 1:32:44
FUSELI'S "TITANIA." 1:33:41
FUSELI'S ELECTION AS A ROYAL ACADEMICIAN. 1:35:28
FUSELI AND HORACE WALPOLE. 1:36:26
FUSELI AND THE BANKER COUTTS. 1:37:15
FUSELI AND PROF. PORSON. 1:38:39
FUSELI'S METHOD OF GIVING VENT TO HIS PASSION. 1:39:08
FUSELI'S LOVE FOR TERRIFIC SUBJECTS. 1:39:36
FUSELI'S AND LAWRENCE'S PICTURES FROM THE "TEMPEST." 1:40:52
FUSELI'S ESTIMATE OF REYNOLDS' ABILITIES IN HISTORICAL PAINTING. 1:41:47
FUSELI AND LAWRENCE. 1:42:26
FUSELI AS KEEPER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. 1:43:13
FUSELI'S JESTS AND ODDITIES WITH THE STUDENTS OF THE ACADEMY. 1:44:15
FUSELI'S SARCASMS ON NORTHCOTE. 1:46:00
FUSELI'S' SARCASMS ON VARIOUS RIVAL ARTISTS. 1:47:06
FUSELI'S RETORTS. 1:48:42
FUSELI'S SUGGESTION OF AN EMBLEM OF ETERNITY 1:50:51
FUSELI'S REPORT IN MR. COUTTS' BANKING HOUSE. 1:51:39
FUSELI'S GENERAL SARCASMS ON LANDSCAPE AND PORTRAIT PAINTERS. 1:52:45
FUSELI'S OPINION OF HIS OWN ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS. 1:53:29
FUSELI'S PRIVATE HABITS. 1:54:10
FUSELI'S WIFE'S METHOD OF CURING HIS FITS OF DESPONDENCY. 1:55:08
FUSELI'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE, HIS SARCASTIC DISPOSITION, AND QUICK TEMPER. 1:56:55
FUSELI'S NEAR SIGHT. 1:58:43
FUSELI'S POPULARITY. 1:59:12
FUSELI'S ARTISTIC MERITS. 1:59:47
FUSELI'S MILTON GALLERY, THE CHARACTER OF HIS WORKS, AND THE PERMANENCY OF HIS FAME. 2:01:26
SALVATOR ROSA. 2:03:09
SALVATOR ROSA AND CAV. LANFRANCO. 2:03:45
SALVATOR ROSA AT ROME AND FLORENCE. 2:04:42
SALVATOR ROSA'S RETURN TO ROME. 2:05:55
SALVATOR ROSA'S SUBJECTS. 2:07:07
FLAGELLATION OF SALVATOR ROSA. 2:09:36
SALVATOR ROSA AND THE HIGGLING PRINCE. 2:11:14
SALVATOR ROSA'S OPINION OF HIS OWN WORKS. 2:13:03
SALVATOR ROSA'S BANDITTI. 2:13:31
SALVATOR ROSA AND MASSANIELLO. 2:15:36
SALVATOR ROSA AND CARDINAL SFORZA. 2:16:18
SALVATOR ROSA'S MANIFESTO CONCERNING HIS SATIRICAL PICTURE LA FORTUNA. 2:17:28
SALVATOR ROSA'S BANISHMENT FROM ROME. 2:19:11
SALVATOR ROSA'S WIT. 2:20:09
SALVATOR ROSA'S RECEPTION AT FLORENCE. 2:20:53
HISTRIONIC POWERS OF SALVATOR ROSA. 2:21:26
SALVATOR ROSA'S RECEPTION AT THE PALAZZO PITTI. 2:22:33
SATIRES OF SALVATOR ROSA. 2:23:19
SALVATOR ROSA'S HARPSICHORD. 2:24:09
RARE PORTRAIT BY SALVATOR ROSA. 2:24:57
SALVATOR ROSA'S RETURN TO ROME. 2:27:55
SALVATOR ROSA'S LOVE OF MAGNIFICENCE. 2:28:58
SALVATOR ROSA'S LAST WORKS. 2:31:35
SALVATOR ROSA'S DESIRE TO BE CONSIDERED AN HISTORICAL PAINTER. 2:32:02
DON MARIO GHIGI, HIS PHYSICIAN, AND SALVATOR ROSA. 2:33:52
DEATH OF SALVATOR ROSA. 2:36:39
DOMENICHINO. 2:44:36
THE DULLNESS OF DOMENICHINO IN YOUTH. 2:45:18
DOMENICHINO'S SCOURGING OF ST. ANDREW. 2:48:05
THE COMMUNION OF ST. JEROME. 2:49:19
DOMENICHINO'S ENEMIES AT ROME. 2:50:17
DECISION OF POSTERITY ON THE MERITS OF DOMENICHINO. 2:52:05
PROOF OF THE MERITS OF DOMENICHINO. 2:52:52
DOMENICHINO'S CARICATURES. 2:53:17
INTRIGUES OF THE NEAPOLITAN TRIUMVIRATE OF PAINTERS. 2:54:44
GIUSEPPE RIBERA, CALLED IL SPAGNOLETTO—HIS EARLY POVERTY AND INDUSTRY. 3:01:18
RIBERA'S MARRIAGE. 3:02:41
RIBERA'S RISE TO EMINENCE. 3:03:44
RIBERA'S DISCOVERY OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE. 3:04:38
RIBERA'S SUBJECTS. 3:05:53
RIBERA'S DISPOSITION. 3:06:21
SINGULAR PICTORIAL ILLUSIONS. 3:07:13
RAFFAELLE'S SKILL IN PORTRAITS. 3:08:44
JACOPO DA PONTE. 3:09:09
GIOVANNI ROSA. 3:09:44
CAV. GIOVANNI CONTARINI. 3:10:07
GUERCINO'S POWER OF RELIEF. 3:10:31
BERNAZZANO. 3:11:15
INVENTION OF OIL PAINTING. 3:12:00
FORESHORTENING. 3:17:39
METHOD OF TRANSFERRING PAINTINGS FROM WALLS AND PANELS TO CANVASS. 3:18:57
WORKS IN SCAGLIOLA. 3:20:58
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAINTING. 3:23:30
GOLDEN AGE OF THE FINE ARTS IN ANCIENT ROME. 3:27:20
NERO'S GOLDEN PALACE. 3:31:44
NAMES OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTS DESIGNATED BY REPTILES. 3:33:14
TRIUMPHAL ARCHES. 3:34:12
STATUE OF POMPEY THE GREAT. 3:36:45
OF ANTIQUE SCULPTURES IN ROME. 3:37:50
ANCIENT MAP OF ROME. 3:38:29
JULIAN THE APOSTATE. 3:39:09
THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. 3:39:49
MANDROCLES' BRIDGE ACROSS THE BOSPHORUS. 3:41:10
THE COLOSSUS OF THE SUN AT RHODES. 3:42:11
STATUES AND PAINTINGS AT RHODES. 3:43:48
SOSTRATUS' LIGHT-HOUSE ON THE ISLE OF PHAROS. 3:44:16
DINOCRATES' PLAN FOR CUTTING MOUNT ATHOS INTO A STATUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 3:45:46
POPE'S IDEA OF FORMING MOUNT ATHOS INTO A STATUE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 3:47:32
TEMPLE WITH AN IRON STATUE SUSPENDED IN THE AIR BY LOADSTONE. 3:49:42
THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS AT ATHENS. 3:50:18
THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS. 3:52:44
THE ELGIN MARBLES. 3:54:53
ODEON, OR ODEUM. 4:08:34
PERPETUAL LAMPS. 4:09:28
THE SKULL OF RAFFAELLE. 4:10:21
THE FOUR FINEST PICTURES IN ROME. 4:10:52
THE FOUR CARLOS OF THE 17TH CENTURY. 4:11:11
PIETRO GALLETTI AND THE BOLOGNESE STUDENTS. 4:11:33
ÆTION'S PICTURE OF THE NUPTIALS OF ALEXANDER AND ROXANA. 4:12:04
AGELADAS. 4:12:36
THE PORTICOS OF AGAPTOS. 4:13:05
THE GROUP OF NIOBE AND HER CHILDREN. 4:13:27
STATUE OF THE FIGHTING GLADIATOR. 4:15:21
THE GROUP OF LAOCOÖN IN THE VATICAN. 4:15:46
MICHAEL ANGELO'S OPINION OF THE LAOCOÖN. 4:19:38
DISCOVERY OF THE LAOCOÖN. 4:20:07
SIR JOHN SOANE. 4:21:03
SOANE'S LIBERALITY AND PUBLIC MUNIFICENCE. 4:23:17
THE BELZONI SARCOPHAGUS. 4:25:45
TASSO'S "GERUSALEMME LIBERATA." 4:27:23
GEORGE MORLAND. 4:29:13
MORLAND'S EARLY TALENT. 4:31:01
MORLAND'S EARLY FAME. 4:31:46
MORLAND'S MENTAL AND MORAL EDUCATION, UNDER AN UNNATURAL PARENT. 4:33:08
MORLAND'S ESCAPE FROM THE THRALDOM OF HIS FATHER. 4:35:22
MORLAND'S MARRIAGE, AND TEMPORARY REFORM. 4:36:35
MORLAND'S SOCIAL POSITION. 4:38:08
AN UNPLEASANT DILEMMA. 4:39:07
MORLAND AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 4:40:20
A NOVEL MODE OF FULFILLING COMMISSIONS. 4:41:13
HASSELL'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH MORLAND. 4:41:55
MORLAND'S DRAWINGS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 4:42:50
MORLAND'S FREAKS. 4:43:36
A JOKE ON MORLAND. 4:44:21
MORLAND'S APPREHENSION AS A SPY. 4:45:24
MORLAND'S "SIGN OF THE BLACK BULL." 4:46:04
MORLAND AND THE PAWNBROKER. 4:47:39
MORLAND'S IDEA OF A BARONETCY. 4:48:46
MORLAND'S ARTISTIC MERIT. 4:49:13
CHARLES JERVAS. 4:51:22
JERVAS THE INSTRUCTOR OF POPE. 4:52:02
JERVAS AND DR. ARBUTHNOT. 4:53:13
JERVAS' VANITY. 4:53:42
HOLBEIN AND THE FLY. 4:54:47
HOLBEIN'S VISIT TO ENGLAND. 4:55:22
HENRY VIII.'S OPINION OF HOLBEIN. 4:56:09
HOLBEIN'S PORTRAIT OF THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF MILAN. 4:57:43
HOLBEIN'S FLATTERY IN PORTRAITS—A WARNING TO PAINTERS. 4:58:33
HOLBEIN'S PORTRAIT OF CRATZER. 4:59:15
HOLBEIN'S PORTRAITS OF SIR THOMAS MORE AND FAMILY. 4:59:56
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH AND HIS CRITICS. 5:01:18
ANECDOTE OF THE ENGLISH PAINTER JAMES SEYMOUR. 5:04:11
PRECOCITY OF LUCA GIORDANO. 5:05:45
GIORDANO'S ENTHUSIASM. 5:06:52
LUCA FA PRESTO. 5:07:42
GIORDANO'S SKILL IN COPYING. 5:08:40
GIORDANO'S SUCCESS AT NAPLES. 5:09:16
GIORDANO, THE VICEROY, AND THE DUKE OF DIANO. 5:10:30
GIORDANO INVITED TO FLORENCE. 5:12:23
GIORDANO AND CARLO DOLCI. 5:12:52
GIORDANO'S VISIT TO SPAIN. 5:13:26
GIORDANO'S WORKS IN SPAIN. 5:15:28
GIORDANO AT THE ESCURIAL. 5:16:30
GIORDANO'S HABITS IN SPAIN. 5:17:21
GIORDANO'S FIRST PICTURES PAINTED AT MADRID. 5:18:32
GIORDANO A FAVORITE AT COURT. 5:19:24
GIORDANO'S RETURN TO NAPLES. 5:22:48
GIORDANO'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER. 5:24:02
GIORDANO'S RICHES. 5:25:08
GIORDANO'S WONDERFUL FACILITY OF HAND. 5:25:44
GIORDANO'S POWERS OF IMITATION. 5:27:21
GIORDANO'S FAME AND REPUTATION. 5:28:07
REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF GIORDANO'S RAPIDITY OF EXECUTION. 5:30:32
REVIVAL OF PAINTING IN ITALY. 5:32:51
GIOVANNI CIMABUE. 5:42:59
CIMABUE'S PASSION FOR ART. 5:44:42
CIMABUE'S FAMOUS PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN. 5:45:59
THE WORKS OF CIMABUE. 5:47:47
DEATH OF CIMABUE. 5:49:59
GIOTTO. 5:50:42
GIOTTO'S ST. FRANCIS STIGMATA 5:54:03
GIOTTO'S INVITATION TO ROME. 5:55:02
GIOTTO'S LIVING MODEL. 5:57:39
GIOTTO AND THE KING OF NAPLES. 6:00:39
GIOTTO AND DANTE. 6:03:01
DEATH OF GIOTTO. 6:03:23
BUONAMICO BUFFALMACCO. 6:04:15
BUFFALMACCO AND HIS MASTER. 6:05:04
BUFFALMACCO AND THE NUNS OF THE CONVENT OF FAENZA. 6:08:55
BUFFALMACCO AND THE NUNS' WINE. 6:11:35
BUFFALMACCO, BISHOP GUIDO, AND HIS MONKEY. 6:12:58
BUFFALMACCO'S TRICK ON THE BISHOP OF AREZZO. 6:17:52
ORIGIN OF LABEL PAINTING. 6:20:10
UTILITY OF ANCIENT WORKS. 6:22:45
BUFFALMACCO AND THE COUNTRYMAN. 6:24:30
BUFFALMACCO AND THE PEOPLE OF PERUGIA. 6:26:37
BUFFALMACCO'S NOVEL METHOD OF ENFORCING PAYMENT. 6:28:22
STEFANO FIORENTINO. 6:29:36
GIOTTINO. 6:30:41
PAOLO UCCELLO. 6:31:23
UCCELLO'S ENTHUSIASM. 6:32:58
UCCELLO AND THE MONKS OF SAN MINIATO. 6:34:25
UCCELLO'S FIVE PORTRAITS. 6:36:01
UCCELLO'S INCREDULITY OF ST. THOMAS. 6:37:00
THE ITALIAN SCHOOLS OF PAINTING. 6:38:40
CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET. 6:41:50
VERNET'S PRECOCITY. 6:42:37
VERNET'S ENTHUSIASM. 6:43:21
VERNET AT ROME. 6:47:05
VERNET'S "ALPHABET OF TONES." 6:48:10
VERNET AND THE CONNOISSEUR. 6:49:46
VERNET'S WORKS. 6:50:48
VERNET'S PASSION FOR MUSIC 6:56:40
VERNET'S OPINION OF HIS OWN MERITS. 6:59:00
CURIOUS LETTER OF VERNET. 6:59:54
CHARLES VERNET. 7:02:25
ANECDOTE OF CHARLES VERNET. 7:03:30
M. DE LASSON'S CARICATURE. 7:04:10
FRANK HALS AND VANDYKE. 7:04:59

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Narrator: Howard — Erudite New England Antiquarian (en-US)
Length: 7 hr 6 min
Language: English
Added: October 6, 2026
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