are fine but the deep, expressive shadows that made Rembrandt
famous are entirely lacking. The softly flowing way in which the color
leaves his brush is, perhaps, the most inimitable part of his art. On
this account someone has said, who evidently has great reverence for
both Velazquez and Rubens, that we will see another Velazquez before
another Rubens.

Considering the qualities of his art, the number of his pictures, his
scholarship, his eminence as a diplomat and his pure and honorable
life, we must place Rubens among the very greatest men who ever
wielded a brush.

QUOTATIONS ABOUT RUBENS.

Rubens was _par excellence_ the painter of the group that
included the heroes of the Dutch Republic; and, like many of his
contemporaries, whilst excelling in his own line, he was, in
other respects also, a great man, in a time of and among great
men.--CHAS. W. KETT.

I cannot sufficiently admire his personal appearance nor praise
his uprightness, his virtue, his erudition and wonderful
knowledge of antiquities, his skill and celerity of pencil, and
the charm of his manner.--A CONTEMPORARY.

His eye is the most marvellous prism that has ever been given us
of the light and color of objects, of true and magnificent
ideas.--EUGENE FROMENTIN.

SUBJECTS FOR LANGUAGE WORK.

1. A Day in Rubens' Studio.

2. An Evening with Rubens.

3. Rubens at the Monastery.

4. A Day with Rubens in London.

5. Rubens as a Diplomat.

6. Antwerp, the Home City of Rubens.

7. Rubens and His Friends.

8. The Women Rubens Loved.

9. My Favorite Picture by Rubens.

10. The Masters of Rubens.

[Illustration: DURER'S HOUSE, NUREMBERG]

ALBRECHT DURER AND HIS CITY

"Of a truth this man would have surpassed us all if he had had
the master-pieces of art constantly before him."
--RAPHAEL.

"Hardly any master has scattered with so lavish a hand all that
the soul has conceived of fervid feeling or pathos, all that
thought has grasped of what is strong or sublime, all that the
imagination has conceived of poetic wealth; in no one has the
depth and power of the German genius been so gloriously revealed
as in him."
--LUBKE.

"He was content to be a precious corner-stone in the edifice of
German Art, the future grandeur of which he could only foresee."
--RICHARD FORD HEATH.