The Arts by Hendrik Willem Van Loon First Edition 1937

Description: VINTAGE 1937 "THE ARTS" BOOK BY HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON If your not 100% Satisfied I except returns The Arts By Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Simon and Schuster. New York. 1937 xxiii, [1], 677, [3] p.: 80 unpaginated plates, featuring illustrations in Color and Wash, 72 black and white in-text drawings; 24 cm. (9.5 inches). Red cloth, with gilt-stamped spine title and multicolor illustrated spine label, gilt-stamped front-cover vignette. No dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Includes An Afterthought on How to Use this Book, A Few Musical Illustrations, Index, A Note About the Author, and A Note on the Production of this Book. First Edition, Second Printing Contents: Prologue; The Art of Prehistoric Man; The Art of Egypt; Babylon and Chaldea and the Land of the Mysterious Sumerians; Heinrich Schliemann; The Art of the Greeks; The Age of Pericles; Pots and Pans and Earrings and Spoons; The Etruscans and the Romans; The Jews; Early Christian Art; The Copts; The Art of the Byzantines; Russia; Islam; Medieval Persia; The Romanesque Period; The Provence; Gothic; The End of the Gothic Period; The Spirit of the Renaissance; Florence; Il Beato Fra Giovanni Angelico Da Fiesole; Niccolo Machiavelli; Florence Comes into its Own as the World's Greatest Art Center; The Putti; The Invention of Oil Painting; The Italian Picture Factory Gets Under Way; America; New Ears Begin to Listen Where New Eyes Have Already Been Taught to See; The New Prosperity Reaches the Heart of Europe; A Mighty Fortress is Our God; Baroque; The Dutch School of Painting; The Grand Siecle; Monsieur De Molière Dies and is Buried in Sacred Ground; The Actor Makes His Reappearance; The Opera; Cremona; A New and Fashionable Form of Entertainment; Rococo; Some More Rococo; India, China, and Japan; Goya; The Picture-Book Gives Way to the Music-Book; Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; Pompeii, Winckelmann, and Lessing; Revolution and Empire; Chaos: 1815-1837; The Romantic Period; Revolt in the Studio; Asylum; The Music of the Nineteenth Century; Das Lied; Paganini and Liszt; Berlioz; Daguerre; Johann Strauss; Chopin; Richard Wagner; Johannes Brahms; Claude Debussy; A Final Word. Book is in good Condition, unmarked pages. please see pictures for further condition

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