Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net SIX CENTURIES OF PAINTING [Illustration; VITTORE PISANO (CALLED PISANELLO) ST ANTHONY AND ST GEORGE _National Gallery, London_] SIX CENTURIES OF PAINTING BY RANDALL DAVIES [Illustration] LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK 67 LONG ACRE, W.C., AND EDINBURGH CONTENTS TUSCAN SCHOOLS-- PAGE I. GIOVANNI CIMABUE 1 II. GIOTTO DI BONDONE 10 III. THE EARLIER QUATTROCENTISTS 18 IV. THE LATER QUATTROCENTISTS 26 V. LEONARDO DA VINCI 33 VI. MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI 40 VII. RAFFAELLO DI SANTI 47 VENETIAN SCHOOLS-- I. THE VIVARINI AND BELLINI 59 II. TIZIANO VECELLIO 78 III. PAOLO VERONESE AND IL TINTORETTO 99 SPANISH SCHOOL 109 FLEMISH SCHOOL-- I. HUBERT AND JAN VAN EYCK 121 II. PETER PAUL RUBENS 143 III. THE PUPILS OF RUBENS 157 DUTCH SCHOOL-- I. FRANS HALS 165 II. REMBRANDT VAN RYN 171 III. PAINTERS OF _GENRE_ 183 IV. PAINTERS OF ANIMALS 191 V. PAINTERS OF LANDSCAPE 202 GERMAN SCHOOLS 211 FRENCH SCHOOL-- I. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 225 II. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 235 THE ENGLISH SCHOOL-- I. THE EARLY PORTRAIT PAINTERS 251 II. WILLIAM HOGARTH 258 III. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS AND THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH 267 IV. THE CLOSE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 295 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY-- I. THE SPIRIT OF REVOLT 305 II. EUGENE DELACROIX 309 III. RUSKIN AGAINST THE PHILISTINES 313 IV. MANET AND WHISTLER AGAINST THE WORLD 324 V. THE ROYAL ACADEMY 329 INDEX 335 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS