Illustrations
Reading edition
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'Île de Cythère 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 SartoThe Dance of the Daughter of Herodias Florence 94
Fabriano The Adoration of the Magi Florence 98
Holbein Portrait of Georg Gisze Berlin 102
Tintoret Paradise Venice 106
Guido Reni Aurora Rome 114
Titian The Assumption of the Virgin Venice 120
Rembrandt The Night Watch Amsterdam 124
Gozzoli The Rape of Helen London 138
L. da Vinci Monna Lisa Paris 142
Van Eyck The Adoration of the Lamb Ghent 154
Piero di Cosimo The Death of Procris London 168
Tintoret The Marriage in Cana Venice 172
De la Tour Portrait of Madame de Pompadour Paris 178
Constable The Hay Wain London 184
Velasquez The Surrender of Breda Madrid 192
Murillo The Immaculate Conception Paris 196
Giotto St. Frances before the Soldan Florence 202
Rossetti Lilith Rockford, Del.212
Dürer The Adoration of the Magi Florence 216
Hogarth The Marriage A-la-Mode London 218
L. da Vinci The Madonna of the Rocks Paris 234
Guido Reni Portrait of Beatrice Cenci Rome 240
Raphael The Transfiguration Rome 250
Paul Potter The Bull The Hague 256
Fragonard Corésus and Callirhoé Paris 262
Gainsborough The Market-Cart London 268
Tintoret Bacchus and Ariadne Venice 274
Greuze La Cruche Cassée Paris 280
Reynolds Portrait of Lady Cockburn and her Children London 282
Raphael St. Cecilia Naples 288
L. da Vinci The Last Supper Milan 290
Van Dyck Portrait of the Children of Charles I. Turin 300
Turner The Fighting Téméraire London 306
Botticelli Spring Florence 314