Mr. Leader Scott has in all three lives the opportunity for fascinating studies, and his book presents them to us with much of the flavour of the period in which they lived. Perhaps to-day we should incline to modify his acceptance of the Vasari attitude to Lucrezia, especially since he himself tends to withdraw the charges against her, but leaves her as the villainess of the piece upon very little evidence. The inclusion of a chapter upon Ghirlandajo, treated merely as a follower of Fra Bartolommeo, scarcely does justice in modern eyes to this fine artist, whose own day and generation did him such honour and paid him so well. But the author's general conclusions as to the place in art and the significance of the lives of the three painters with whom he is chiefly concerned remains unchallenged, and we have in the volume a necessary study to place alongside those of Leonardo, of Michelangelo and of Raphael for an understanding of the culmination of the Renaissance in Italy. HORACE SHIPP. CONTENTS. FRA BARTOLOMMEO. CHAPTER I. THOUGHTS ON THE RENAISSANCE II. THE "BOTTEGA" OF COSIMO ROSELLI. A.D. 1475-1486 III. THE GARDEN AND THE CLOISTER. A.D. 1487-1495 IV. SAN MARCO. A.D. 1496-1500 V. FRA BARTOLOMMEO IN THE CONVENT. A.D. 1504-1509 VI. ALBERTINELLI IN THE WORLD. A.D. 1501-1510 VII. CONVENT PARTNERSHIP. A.D. 1510-1513 VIII. CLOSE OF LIFE. A.D. 1514-1517 IX. PART I.--SCHOLARS OF FRA BARTOLOMMEO PART II.--SCHOLARS OF MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI X. RIDOLFO GHIRLANDAJO ANDREA DEL SARTO. CHAPTER I. YOUTH AND EARLY WORKS. A.D. 1487-1511 II. THE SERVITE CLOISTER. A.D. 1511-1512 III. SOCIAL LIFE AND MARRIAGE. A.D. 1511-1516 IV. WORKS IN FLORENCE. A.D. 1511-1515 V. GOING TO FRANCE. A.D. 1518-1519 VI. ANDREA AND OTTAVIANO DE' MEDICI. A.D. 1521-1523 VII. THE PLAGUE AND THE SIEGE. A.D. 1525-1531 VIII. SCHOLARS OF ANDREA DEL SARTO BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ADORATION. By BARTOLOMMEO PROCESSION TO CALVARY. By GHIRLANDAIO A SCULPTOR. By ANDREA DEL SARTO MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SS. JOHN AND ELIZABETH. By ANDREA DEL SARTO THE HOLY FAMILY. By BARTOLOMMEO THE SAVIOUR. By ALBERTINELLI VIRGIN AND CHILD. By ANDREA DEL SARTO ECCE HOMO. By BARTOLOMMEO FRA BARTOLOMMEO. CHAPTER I. THOUGHTS ON THE RENAISSANCE. It seems to be a law of nature that progress, as well as time, should be marked by periods of alternate light and darkness--day and night. This law is nowhere more apparent than in the history of Art. Three times has the world been illuminated by the full brilliance of Art, and three times has a corresponding period of darkness ensued.