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Title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14)
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Release Date: April 4, 2006 [EBook #18118]

Language: English

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Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14)

Little Journeys To The Homes Of Eminent Painters

Elbert Hubbard

Memorial Edition

Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters,
who are in East Aurora, Erie County, New York

New York

1916

CONTENTS

MICHELANGELO 3
REMBRANDT 39
RUBENS 79
MEISSONIER 117
TITIAN 145
ANTHONY VAN DYCK 171
FORTUNY 199
ARY SCHEFFER 223
FRANCOIS MILLET 257
JOSHUA REYNOLDS 285
LANDSEER 309
GUSTAVE DORE 327

MICHELANGELO

How can that be, lady, which all men learn
By long experience? Shapes that seem alive,
Wrought in hard mountain marble, will survive
Their maker, whom the years to dust return!
Thus to effect, cause yields. Art hath her turn,
And triumphs over Nature. I, who strive with sculpture,
Know this well: her wonders live
In spite of time and death, those tyrants stern.
So I can give long life to both of us
In either way, by color or by stone,
Making the semblance of thy face and mine.
Centuries hence when both are buried,
Thus thy beauty and my sadness shall be shown,
And men shall say, "For her 'twas wise to pine."

--_Sonnets of Michelangelo_

[Illustration: MICHELANGELO]

"Call me by my pet name," wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in one of
those incomparable sonnets o