GUIDO RENI.--The Archangel Michael overpowering Satan 63 H. MÜCKE.--The Translation of St. Catherine of Alexandria 71 FRA FILIPPO LIPPI.--The Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin Mary 79 FRA FILIPPO LIPPI.--A Divided Annunciation 89 ALESSANDRO ALLORI.--The Annunciation 95 FRA ANGELICO.--The Annunciation 101 ANDREA DEL SARTO.--The Archangel Raphael conducting the young Tobias 111 GIOVANNI BILIVERTI.--The Archangel Raphael refusing the Gifts of Tobias 117 SANDRO BOTTICELLI.--The Archangel Raphael (from a picture of Tobias and the three Archangels) 123 FRA ANGELICO.--Angel Choristers 137 KAULBACH.--The Angel of Peace 141 PERUGINO.--Musical Angels 147 FRANCESCO GRANACCI.--Angels in Adoration 153 IL SODOMA.--The Sacrifice of Abraham 161 MELOZZO DA FORLI.--An Angel 173 ARY SCHEFFER.--The Temptation of Christ 181 SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES.--Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre 187 FRA ANGELICO.--An Angel conducting a Soul to Heaven 195 FRA BARTOLOMMEO.--An Angel playing the Violin 201 LORENZO DI CREDI.--An Angel in Adoration 205 FRENCH.--Death staying the Hand of the Sculptor 211 ROSSETTI.--The Annunciation 221 FRANCESCO GRANACCI.--The Virgin and Angels 225 FRANCESCO FRANCIA.--A Pietà 233 MURILLO.--The Immaculate Conception 237 SANDRO BOTTICELLI.--Madonna and Angels 243 VAN DYCK.--The Repose in Egypt 251 TITIAN.--The Assumption of the Virgin 255 ANGELS IN ART. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Angels and archangels, cherubim and seraphim, and all the glorious hosts of heaven were a fruitful source of inspiration to the oldest painters and sculptors whose works are known to us, while the artists of our more practical, less dreamful age are, from time to time, inspired to reproduce their conceptions of the guardian angels of our race.