Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Sidenotes are identified as: [SN: text of sidenote]. Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * _The Relation of Art to Nature_ * * * * * _THE RELATION OF ART TO NATURE_ _by John W. Beatty_ _New York William Edwin Rudge_ 1922 * * * * * _Copyright, 1922 by_ JOHN W. BEATTY * * * * * _To my gentle wife this little volume is affectionately dedicated._ _Contents_ ARGUMENT _Page_ 1 THE ARTIST AND HIS PURPOSE 5 ANCIENT CONCEPTIONS OF ART 13 EVIDENCE OF PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS 19 OPINIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS AND WRITERS 48 SYMMETRY 57 CONCLUSION 67 _Authorities Quoted_ PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS Kuo Hsi 11th Century Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 Michelangelo Buonarotti 1475-1564 William Hogarth 1697-1764 Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828 Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769-1830 John Constable 1776-1837 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875 Jean François Millet 1814-1875 James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834-1903 John La Farge 1835-1910 Winslow Homer 1836-1910 Anton Mauve 1838-1888 Auguste Rodin 1840-1915 Abbott Handerson Thayer 1849-1921 Henry Ward Ranger 1858-1916 Giovanni Segantini 1858-1899 WRITERS AND PHILOSOPHERS Socrates 470-399 B. C. Plato 427-347 B. C. Aristotle 384-322 B. C. Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz 1646-1716 Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten 1714-1762 Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770-1831 Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860 John Stuart Blackie 1809-1895 James Anthony Froude 1818-1894 Jean Henri Fabre 1823-1915 Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 1828-1893 William Angus Knight 1836-1916 Lord James Bryce 1838-1922 Lafcadio Hearn 1850-1904 Maurice Maeterlinck 1862- Sei-ichi Taki _Introduction_