ANCIENT AND MODERN ART HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL. BY GEORGE CLEGHORN, ESQ. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. VOL. I. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, MDCCCXLVIII. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE generality of treatises on the Fine Arts are too costly, too dry and technical, too much confined to one art or the branch of an art, too vague and mystified, to be of any use to the ordinary reader. The discussions on Art in journals and periodical works, how able soever some of them may be, are isolated and disjointed, and being often the production of different writers, are not unfrequently contradictory and discordant with each other. The sister Arts of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, are so intimately related to each other, that it is impossible to give a satisfactory account of one unconnected with the others. The object of the following pages is to present, in a popular form, a brief yet comprehensive sketch, historical and critical, of Ancient and Modern Art, from the earliest up to the present times. Those |