MARKET-CART _Gainsborough_ 268
RICHARD AND SAMUEL REDGRAVE

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE _Tintoret_ 273
HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE 278
ANONYMOUS

LA CRUCHE CASSEE _Greuze_ 280
THEOPHILE GAUTIER

PORTRAIT OF LADY COCKBURN
AND HER CHILDREN _Reynolds_ 282
FREDERIC G. STEPHENS

ST. CECILIA _Raphael_ 287
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

THE LAST SUPPER _Leonardo da Vinci_ 289
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

THE CHILDREN OF CHARLES I. _Van dyck_ 300
JULES GUIFFREY

THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE TUGGED
TO HER LAST BERTH TO BE
BROKEN UP, 1838 _Turner_ 306
JOHN RUSKIN

SPRING _Botticelli_ 313
MARCEL REYMOND

Illustrations

BORDONE Fisherman presenting the Ring
to the Doge Gradenigo _Venice_ Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

BOTTICELLI The Birth of Venus _Florence_ 6

VERONESE The Queen of Sheba _Turin_ 16

MICHAEL ANGELO The Last Judgment _Rome_ 18

CORREGGIO Magdalen _Dresden_ 28

VAN DER HELST The Banquet of the Arquebusiers _Amsterdam_ 34

WATTEAU L'Embarquement pour l'Ile
de Cythere _Paris_ 38

RAPHAEL The Sistine Madonna _Dresden_ 46

CARPACCIO The Dream of St. Ursula _Venice_ 58

RUBENS The Descent from the Cross _Antwerp_ 62

TITIAN Bacchus and Ariadne _London_ 72

FRA ANGELICO The Coronation of the Virgin _Paris_ 78

BOTTICELLI Judith _Florence_ 80

HOBBEMA The Avenue of Middelharnais _London_ 88

ANDREA DEL SARTO The Dance of the Daughter