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[No. 283. 



THE WIDOW'S EESCUE. 



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THE WIDOWS RESCUE, SELECT EULOGIES, AND OTHER 

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SYLLABUS of A COURSE OF EIGHT 

 LECTURES (with Illustrations) on CHRIS- 

 TIAN ART. from the EARLIEST PERIOD 

 to RAPHAEL and MICHAEL ANGELO, 

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Lectdhe I Thursday, April 19th, 1855. 



From A.D. 30O. The Catacombs of Rome, and 

 Churches ofKavenna- —Early Christian Paint- 

 ing and Sculpture ; Constantine and Pope 

 Silvester ; Historical Notes upon the Relations 

 between Popes, Emperors, and Byzantines ; 

 Mosaics ; The Saracens ; Dark Ages ; Monte 

 Cassino ; The Millennium. 



Lecture II Thursday, April 26th. 



From A.D. 1000. Sicilian Mosaics and Archi- 

 tecture Institution of the Mendicant Orders ; 



Canonization of St. Dominick ; Close Relation 

 between Painting, Sculpture, and Architec- 

 ture ; Contemporaneous Buildings in France, 

 Germany, Italy, and England ; The Pisani. 



Lecture III. — Thursday, May 3rd. 



From A.D. 1234. Assisi. — G'vxata. Pisano, 



Guido da Siena, Cimabue, Dante, Giotto; 



Mosaics in Rome ; The Navicella ; Shrine m 



Westminster Abbey. 



Lectdbe IV. — Thursday, May 10th. 



From A.D. 1300. Campo Santo, at Pisa — 



Jubilee ; Giotto (^continued) ; Simone Merami, 



Duecio, Gaddi,?Orcagna, Petrarch, Boccaccio ; 



Plague at Florence. 



Lectitbe V. — Thursday, May 17th. 



From A.D. 1360. San Marco, at Florence. — 



Orcagna as Sculptor and Architect: D'Avanzo; 



Gentile da Fabriano. Venetian School ; An- 



gelico da Fiesole, Ghiberti, Donatello. 



Lecture VI. — Thursday, May 24th. 



From A.D. 1432. The Carmine at Florence.— 



Paolo Uccello, Masolino, Masaccio, Angelico 



da Fiesole {continued), Gozzoli, Van Eyck. 



The Paduan School, Andrea Mantegna. 



Lecture VII. — Thursday. May 31st. 



From A.D. 1473. Walls of the Sistine Chapel. 

 — Sandro Botticelli, Ghirlaiidajo, Signorelll, 

 Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Francia. Origm 

 of Engraving. 



Lecture VIII. — Thursday, June 7th. 



From A.D. 1492. The raYicarj. — Pinturicchio, 

 Michael Angelo, Raphael, Andrea del barto, 

 Correggio, Venetian School, Sebastiano del 

 Piombo and Giulio Romano. 



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