rs. Watts, Mrs. C. W. Furse, Mr. W. M. Rossetti, Mr. J. G. Millais, Mr.
Samuel Calvert, and Mr. Sydney Cockerell, for permission to make
quotations from Burne-Jones, Whistler, Watts, Furse, D. G. Rossetti,
Madox Brown, Millais, Edward Calvert, and William Morris; also Sir
Martin Conway, Sir Charles Holroyd, Mrs. Herringham, Mr. E. McCurdy,
and Mr. Everard Meynell, for allowing me to use their translations from
Duerer, Francisco d'Ollanda (conversations with Michael Angelo), Cennino
Cennini, Leonardo, and Corot, respectively.

Thankful acknowledgment is also made to the authors of any other
quotations whose names may inadvertently have been omitted.

Above all, I thank my husband for his advice and help.

C. M. B.

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE POLISH RIDER. Rembrandt _Frontispiece_
_Tarnowski Collection, Dzikow_

FACING PAGE

THE CASTLE IN THE PARK. Rubens. (_Detail_) 28
_Vienna_

LOVE. Millais 48
_The Victoria and Albert Museum_

THE MUSIC OF PAN. Signorelli 74
_Berlin_

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S WIFE. J. Van Eyck 96
_Bruges_

HOPE. Puvis de Chavannes 102
_By permission of Messrs. Durand-Revel_

THE MASS OF BOLSENA. Raphael. (_Detail_) 118
_The Vatican_

THE CHILDREN AND THE BUTTERFLY. Gainsborough 134
_National Gallery_

THE MIND OF THE ARTIST

I

An able painter by his power of penetration into the mysteries of his
art is usually an able critic.

_Alfred Stevens._[1]

[Footnote 1: The Belgian painter, not the English sculptor.]

II

Art, like love, excludes all competition, and absorbs the man.

_Fuseli._

III

A good painter has two chief objects to paint, namely, man, and the
intention of his soul. The first is easy, the second difficult, because
he has to represent it through the attitudes and movements of the limbs.
This should be learnt from the dumb, who do it better than any other
sort of person.

_Leonardo da Vinci._

IV

In my judgment that is the excellent and divine painting which is most
like and best imitates any work of immortal God, whether a human figure,
or a wild and strange animal, or a simple and easy fish, or a bird of
the air, or any other creature. And this neither with gold nor silver
nor with very fine tints, but drawn only with a pen or a pencil, or with
a brush in black and white. To