It was this picture which caused Murillo to remark that it was something to be looked at with the nostrils closed. To which rather uncertain praise Leal is reported to have replied, 'Ah, my compeer, it is not my fault, you have taken all the sweet fruit out of the basket and left me only the rotten.' With the death of Valdés Leal, at the close of the seventeenth century, the long chain of artists, who had made the name of Seville famous, terminates. He left behind him no painter of specific merit. The artists who remained were dreary conventionalists, without originality, mere copyists of those who had preceded them. The study of their work yields neither pleasure nor profit. It is better to leave the record of the artists of Seville, while the memory of her greatest masters is still vivid, than to trace the slow decay of her art into feeble mediocrity. * * * * * _Note._--In order to facilitate the finding of the works of the artists mentioned in this chapter, this list is appended, naming their chief pictures, and the places where they may be found. Artists. Pictures. Where Situated. Pedrode Pampeluna Illuminated Bible. Library of the Cathedral. (thirteenth century). Juan Sanchez de Fresco of San San Julian. Castro (1454-1516) Cristobal. " Painting on panel House of Murillo. of the Entombment. Juan Nuñez (fifteenth Piéta. Sacristía de los century). Cálices, Cathedral. Alezo Fernandez Conception. Palacio Arzobiscopal. (worked in Seville about 1508). " Birth of the Virgin. Ditto. " Purification. Ditto. " Virgen de la Rosa. Santa Ana, Triana. " Altar-piece. San Julian. Luis de Vargas Frescoes. The Giralda Tower. (1502-1568). Outer Wall of the Court of the Oranges. " The Nativity. Altar del Nacimiento, Cathedral. " Temporal Generation Altar de la Gamba, of Our Lord. Cathedral. " Portrait of Don Ditto. Juan de Medina.