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GREAT PICTURES	3
THE FISHERMAN PRESENTING THE RING TO THE DOGE GRADENIGO	3
THEOPHILE GAUTIER	3
THE BIRTH OF VENUS	5
WALTER PATER	5
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA	10
JOHN RUSKIN	10
THE LAST JUDGEMENT	11
ALEXANDRE DUMAS	11
FOOTNOTES:	16
MAGDALEN IN THE DESERT	16
AIME GIRON	16
BANQUET OF THE ARQUEBUSIERS	18
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY	19
L’EMBARQUEMENT POUR L’ILE DE CYTHERE	21
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT	21
THE SISTINE MADONNA	24
F.A. GRUYER	25
THE DREAM OF ST. URSULA	32
JOHN RUSKIN	32
FOOTNOTES:	34
THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS	34
EUGENE FROMENTIN	34
BACCHUS AND ARIADNE	38
CHARLES LAMB	38
BACCHUS AND ARIADNE	39
EDWARD T. COOK	39
FOOTNOTES:	41
THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN	41
THEOPHILE GAUTIER	41
JUDITH	42
MAURICE HEWLETT	42
THE AVENUE OF MIDDELHARNAIS	47
PAUL LAFOND	47
THE DANCE OF THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS	49
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE	49
ADORATION OF THE MAGI	51
F.A. GRUYER	51
FOOTNOTES:	52
PORTRAIT OF GEORG GISZE	52
ANTONY VALABREGUE	53
FOOTNOTES:	55
PARADISE	55
JOHN RUSKIN	55
AURORA	59
CHARLOTTE A. EATON	59
AURORA	61
JOHN CONSTABLE	61
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN	61
THEOPHILE GAUTIER	61
THE NIGHT WATCH	64
EUGENE FROMENTIN	64
THE RAPE OF HELEN	71
COSMO MONKHOUSE	71
MONNA LISA[9]	73
WALTER PATER	73
FOOTNOTES:	79
THE ADORATION OF THE LAMB	80
KUGLER	80
FOOTNOTES:	87
THE DEATH OF PROCRIS	88
EDWARD T. COOK	88
THE DEATH OF PROCRIS	88
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS	88
FOOTNOTES:	89
THE MARRIAGE IN CANA	89
JOHN RUSKIN	89
MADAME DE POMPADOUR	92
CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE	92
FOOTNOTES:	95
THE HAY WAIN	96
C.L. BURNS	96
THE SURRENDER OF BREDA	99
THEOPHILE GAUTIER	99
FOOTNOTES:	101
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION	102
AIME GIRON	102
ST. FRANCIS BEFORE THE SOLDAN	105
JOHN RUSKIN	105
FOOTNOTES:	110
LILITH	110
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE	110
ADORATION OF THE MAGI	112
MORIZ THAUSING	112
MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE	113
AUSTIN DOBSON	113
FOOTNOTES:	121
THE MADONNA OF THE ROCKS	122
THEOPHILE GAUTIER	122
FOOTNOTES:	124
BEATRICE CENCI	125
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY	125
THE TRANSFIGURATION	130
MRS. JAMESON	130
THE BULL	133
EUGENE FROMENTIN	133
CORESUS AND CALLIRHOE	137
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT	137
FOOTNOTES:	140
THE MARKET-CART	140
RICHARD AND SAMUEL REDGRAVE	140
BACCHUS AND ARIADNE	142
HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE	142
FOOTNOTES:	145
BACCHUS AND ARIADNE	145
LA CRUCHE CASSEE	146
THEOPHILE GAUTIER	146
PORTRAIT OF LADY COCKBURN AND HER CHILDREN	147
FREDERIC G. STEPHENS	147
FOOTNOTES:	149
ST. CECILIA	150
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY	150
THE LAST SUPPER	150
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE	150
THE CHILDREN OF CHARLES I.	156
JULES GUIFFREY	156
THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE TUGGED TO HER LAST BERTH TO BE BROKEN UP, 1838	159
JOHN RUSKIN	159
FOOTNOTES:	162
SPRING	163
MARCEL REYMOND	163
FOOTNOTES:	166

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