5. Rooms IX.-XIII., which contain French pictures and Rooms XIX.-XXXV., which contain Flemish and Dutch pictures are not open before eleven o’clock. 6. The Louvre is closed on Mondays all the year round, and on January 1, July 14, and Ascension Day; it is also closed on the Feast of the Assumption (August 15), All Saints Day (November 1), and Christmas Day, unless these last three days fall on a Sunday. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE v INTRODUCTION 1 EARLY SIENESE SCHOOL 15 DUCCIO’S FOLLOWERS 16 THE FLORENTINE SCHOOL 19 THE GIOTTESQUES 20 FRA ANGELICO 23 PAOLO UCCELLO 26 THE GOLDSMITH PAINTERS 32 LEONARDO DA VINCI 34 MONA LISA 36 BOTTICELLI 39 ALBERTINELLI 43 ANDREA DEL SARTO 45 THE LATER SIENESE SCHOOL 49 THE UMBRIAN SCHOOL 53 PERUGINO 54 RAPHAEL 56 THE VENETIAN SCHOOL 61 THE BELLINI 62 GIORGIONE 66 TITIAN 68 TITIAN’S FOLLOWERS 72 PAOLO VERONESE 74 THE PADUAN SCHOOL 79 ANDREA MANTEGNA 80 THE SCHOOL OF VERONA 85 THE SCHOOL OF FERRARA 89 THE SCHOOL OF MILAN 93 ANDREA SOLARIO 95 BERNARDINO LUINI 96 THE SCHOOL OF LOMBARDY 99 THE SCHOOL OF FERRARA-BOLOGNA 101