Now we pass up the grand staircase, where I pause to note the Ionic columns, the ormolu and porcelain candelabra, a Siberian vase from the Emperor Nicholas, five immense vases from the Emperor of China, a painting of William IV., and one of Maria of Stockholm and family.

From a painting by Franz von Lenbach.]

On 18 September, 1820, he left England for Italy, in company with Mr. Joseph Severn, a student of painting in the Royal Academy, who, having won the gold medal, was entitled to spend three years abroad for advancement in his art.

After my two explorations in unknown realms,the one voluntary, looking at the painting on the wall, the other involuntary, looking at a human soul in sorrow,I resolved to shut my eyes to all that they ought not to see; and therefore I stationed myself in the green glade of a chair, and very properly decided that the only thing I would look at should be the fire.

The scenery of the most brilliant theatre of the world was only a painting for children compared with this.

The painting as a wholerepresenting Lourdes twenty-five years agois most effective, and the effect is heightened by the admirable combination with real earth, and grass, and trees.

I beg to present you with a brief notice of the School of Painting at the British Institution, Pall Mall; you may rely upon its correctness, as I have been extremely cautious in making my notes, and in ascertaining every particular relative to the subject.

Strong fingers and a fruit knife quickly extracted the painting from its frame and loosened the canvas from its stretcher, proving that the latter held in fact two canvases instead of one.

Yes, M. Flaubert knows how to embellish his paintings with all the resources of art, but without the discretion of art.

The set of old paintings to the right and left represent scenes in the good man's life, who, if he had only changed the i in his name to oand the king would have agreed readilyby the perpetual allusion to Savon, would perhaps have done much for the natives generally.

She noted trifles; she saw a painting over Gratton's heada seascape her father had given her for her fourteenth birthday.

Signor Bianchi, who found these paintings under the whitewash in 1853, and restored them, overdid his part, there is no doubt; but as I have said, their interest is unharmed, and it is that which one so delights in.

Aunt Madge had done well to place such paintings before her young guests; good pictures bring good thoughts.

That one should try a little of everything, even of polities, when one is capable of nothing else, is, if not excusable, at any rate comprehensible; but when a man can make excellent boots like Napoleon Gaillard, or good paintings like Gustave Courbet, that he should deliberately lay himself open to ridicule, and perhaps to everlasting execration, is what we cannot admit.

'Tis true,' Beaufort laughingly added,' he has no more taste for paintings than his valet, and perhaps not so much; but that matters not: he thinks that he has, and it is not my place to undeceive him; for, as he is rich and influential, he may be a valuable friend to us.' Amy listened without making any reply.

PaganisesMusicThe Future of Painting after the Renaissance.

At the outset of his career Ruskin, as is well known, was led to take up a defence of J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and the contemporary school of English landscape-painting against the foreign trammels, which had fastened themselves upon modern art, and especially to prove the superiority of modern landscape-painters over the old masters.

Antonello da Messina brought his method of oil-painting into the city in 1470, and Gian Bellini learned something at Padua from Andrea Mantegna.

Great courage and self-command may to a certain extent give power of painting without the true calmness underneath, but never of doing first-rate work.

On his Collection of Paintings by the old German Masters Friendliest of men, Aders, I never come Within the precincts of this sacred Room, But I am struck with a religious fear, Which says "Let no profane eye enter here.

In his Roman manner the dramatic element was conspicuous; and to carry dramatic painting beyond the limits of good style in art is unfortunately easy.

Miss Beck edited the Catalogue of the Wilstach Collection of Paintings in Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. <b>BECKINGTON, ALICE.</b>

Some one named a light, free-smoking Five-Cent Cigar after him, and he began to see Weird Paintings on the Dead Walls, and was Ashamed to walk along those Streets.

[Footnote 71: Moti Chandra, Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India (Ahmedabad, 1949), Figs.

We who can call to mind the scenes that picture has looked down uponwe who have studied the rise and decadence of painting throughout Italy from this beginning even to the last work of the latest Bolognesemay do well to visit it with reverence, and to ponder on the race of mighty masters whose lineage here takes its origin.