Painting

Andrea del Sarto approached perhaps as closely to a Giorgione or a Titian as could a Florentine, ill at ease in the neighbourhood of Leonardo and Michelangelo. As an artist he was, it is true, not endowed with the profoundest sense for the significant, yet within the sphere of common humanity who has produced anything more genial than his “Portrait of a Lady”—probably his wife—with a Petrarch in her hands?

(LEONARDO DA VINCI)

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

(VAN DER HELST) WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The Night-Watch at Amsterdam is magnificent in parts, but on the side to the spectator's right, smoky and dim. The Five Masters of the Drapers is wonderful for depth, strength, brightness, massive power. What words are these to express a picture!

(TITIAN)

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

(GUIDO RENI)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

(WATTEAU)

EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT

(REMBRANDT)

EUGÈNE FROMENTIN

(RAPHAEL)

MRS. JAMESON