But two of them, Mantegna and Dürer, were so polluted and paralyzed by the study of anatomy that the former's best works (the magnificent mythology of the Vices in the Louvre, for instance) are entirely revolting to all women and children; while Dürer never could draw one beautiful female form or face; and, of his important plates, only four, the Melancholia, St. Jerome in his study, St. Hubert, and The Knight and Death, are of any use for popular instruction, because in these only, the figures being fully draped or armed, he was enabled to think and feel rightly, being delivered from the ghastly toil of bone-delineation. Botticelli and Holbein studied the face first, and the limbs secondarily; and the works they have left are therefore (without exception) precious; yet saddened and corrupted by the influence which the contemporary masters of body-drawing exercised on them; and at last eclipsed by their false fame. I purpose, therefore, in my next course of lectures, to explain the relation of these two draughtsmen to other masters of design, and of engraving. BRANTWOOD, _Sept. 2nd, 1872._ CONTENTS. LECTURE I. _February 8, 1872._ PAGE THE FUNCTION IN ART OF THE FACULTY CALLED BY THE GREEKS σοφίa 1 LECTURE II. _February 10, 1872._ THE FUNCTION IN SCIENCE OF THE FACULTY CALLED BY THE GREEKS σοφίa 25 LECTURE III. _February 15, 1872._ THE RELATION OF WISE ART TO WISE SCIENCE 46 LECTURE IV. _February 17, 1872._ THE FUNCTION IN ART AND SCIENCE OF THE VIRTUE CALLED BY THE GREEKS σωφροσύνη 74 LECTURE V. _February 22, 1872._ THE FUNCTION IN ART AND SCIENCE OF THE VIRTUE CALLED BY THE GREEKS αὐτάρκεια 89 LECTURE VI. _February 24, 1872._ THE RELATION TO ART OF THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT 114 LECTURE VII. _February 29, 1872._ THE RELATION TO ART OF THE SCIENCES OF INORGANIC FORM 138 LECTURE VIII. _March 2, 1872._ THE RELATION TO ART OF THE SCIENCES OF ORGANIC FORM 161 LECTURE IX. _March 7, 1872._ INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY EXERCISES IN PHYSIOLOGIC ART. THE STORY OF THE HALCYON 188 LECTURE X. _March 9, 1872._