Painting

Pontormo, who had it in him to be a decorator and portrait-painter of the highest rank, was led astray by his awe-struck admiration for Michelangelo, and ended as an academic constructor of monstrous nudes.

(WATTEAU)

EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT

(REMBRANDT)

EUGÈNE FROMENTIN

(GUIDO RENI)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

(RAPHAEL)

F.A. GRUYER

Raphael seemed to have attained perfection in the Virgin with the Fish; however, four or five years later, he was to rise infinitely higher and display something superior to art and inaccessible to science.

It was in 1518 that the Benedictines of the monastery of St. Sixtus ordered this picture. They had required that the Virgin and the Infant Jesus should be in the company of St. Sixtus and St. Barbara. This is how Raphael entered into their views.

(BENOZZO GOZZOLI)

COSMO MONKHOUSE

(RAPHAEL)

MRS. JAMESON

(CARPACCIO)

JOHN RUSKIN