Chapter I: Front Matter

BOOKS BY PROF. JOHN C. VAN DYKE

=Art for Art’s $1.50
Sake.= University
Lectures on the
Technical Beauties
of Painting. With
24 Illustrations.
12mo

=The Meaning of _net_
Pictures.= $1.25
University
Lectures at the
Metropolitan
Museum, New York.
With 31
Illustrations.
12mo

=Studies in _net_
Pictures.= An $1.25
Introduction to
the Famous
Galleries. With 40
Illustrations.
12mo

=What is Art?= _net_
Studies in the $1.00
Technique and
Criticism of
Painting. 12mo

=Text Book of the $1.50
History of
Painting.= With
110
Illustrations.
12mo

=Old Dutch and $7.50
Flemish Masters.=
With Timothy
Cole’s
Wood-Engravings.
Superroyal 8vo

=Old English $8.00
Masters.= With
Timothy Cole’s
Wood-Engravings.
Superroyal 8vo

=Modern French $10.00
Masters.= Written
by American
Artists and Edited
by Prof. Van Dyke.
With 66 Full-page
Illustrations.
Superroyal 8vo

=Nature for Its Own $1.50
Sake.= First
Studies in Natural
Appearances. With
Portrait. 12mo

=The Desert.= _net_
Further Studies in $1.25
Natural
Appearances. With
Frontispiece. 12mo

=The Opal Sea.= _net_
Continued Studies $1.25
in Impressions
and Appearances.
With Frontispiece.
12mo

=The Money God.= _net_
Chapters of Heresy $1.00
and Dissent
concerning
Business Methods
and Mercenary
Ideals in American
Life. 12mo

=The New New York.= _net_
A Commentary on $4.00
the Place and the
People. With 125
Illustrations by
Joseph Pennell

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THE MEANING OF PICTURES

_SIX LECTURES GIVEN FOR COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
AT THE METROPOLITAN
MUSEUM OF ART_

BY

JOHN C. VAN DYKE

AUTHOR OF “ART FOR ART’S SAKE,” “NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE,” ETC.

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1911

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COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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Published, February, 1908

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~To~

WILLIAM CRARY BROWNELL

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