Painting

(GIOTTO)

JOHN RUSKIN

(VAN DYCK)

JULES GUIFFREY

(VERONESE)

JOHN RUSKIN

(TINTORET)

JOHN RUSKIN

(ROSSETTI)

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

(TURNER)

JOHN RUSKIN

Antoine Watteau was born at Valenciennes in 1684, and died near there about thirty-seven years later of consumption. Valenciennes really belonged to Flanders, and had only lately been annexed to France, so that Watteau owed something of his art to Flemish rather than to French sources.

Titian occupies almost, if not quite, as important a place in the history of painting as does Shakespeare in that of literature. His fame, his popularity, the wide range as well as the immense quantity of his works, entitle him to be ranked with our poet, if only for the

It cannot be said that the Venetian artists of the second half of the sixteenth century equalled in their collective excellence the great masters of the first, but in single instances they are frequently entitled to rank beside them.