CONTENTS
PREFACE BY JOHN RUSKIN
GENERAL INTRODUCTION WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY
GUIDE TO THE GALLERY AND INTRODUCTIONS TO THE SCHOOLS OF PAINTING
THE EARLY FLORENTINE SCHOOL
THE FLORENTINE SCHOOL
THE SIENESE SCHOOL
THE SCHOOLS OF LOMBARDY
FERRARESE AND BOLOGNESE SCHOOLS
THE UMBRIAN SCHOOL
THE VENETIAN AND ALLIED SCHOOLS [23]
THE PADUAN SCHOOL
THE LATER ITALIAN SCHOOLS
THE EARLY FLEMISH AND THE GERMAN SCHOOLS
THE DUTCH SCHOOL
THE LATER FLEMISH SCHOOL
THE SPANISH SCHOOL
THE FRENCH SCHOOL
NUMERICAL CATALOGUE, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES
PICTURES ON LOAN THE HOLY FAMILY. B. Fungai (Sienese: about 1460-1516). See 1331.
COPIES FROM THE OLD MASTERS I. VELAZQUEZ
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
HANDBOOK TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is open to the Public on week-days throughout the year. On MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and SATURDAYS admission is free, and the Gallery is open during the following hours:—
| January | From 10A.M.until 4P.M. |
| February | From 10A.M. until dusk. |
| March |
| April | From 10A.M.until 6 P.M. |
| May |
| June |
| July |
| August |
| September |
| October | From 10A.M.until dusk. |
| November |
| December |
On THURSDAYS and FRIDAYS (Students' Days) the Gallery is open to the Public on payment of Sixpence each person, from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. in winter, and from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. in summer.
On SUNDAYS the Gallery is open, free, from 2 P.M. till dusk, or 6 P.M. (according to the season).
☞ Persons desirous of becoming Students should address the Secretary and Keeper, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, S.W.
The National Gallery of British Art ("Tate Gallery") is open under the same regulations, and during the same hours, as those given above, except that Students' Days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
A POPULAR HANDBOOK
TO THE
NATIONAL GALLERY
INCLUDING BY SPECIAL PERMISSION
NOTES COLLECTED FROM THE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN
Volume I.—FOREIGN SCHOOLS
COMPILED BY
E. T. COOK
WITH PREFACE BY JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D., D.C.L.
EIGHTH EDITION
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1922
A picture which is worth buying is also worth seeing. Every noble picture is a manuscript book, of which only one copy exists, or ever can exist. A National Gallery is a great library, of which the books must be read upon their shelves (Ruskin: Arrows of the Chace, i. 71).
There, the long dim galleries threading,
May the artist's eye behold
Breathing from the "deathless canvass"
Records of the years of old:
Pallas there, and Jove, and Juno,
"Take" once more their "walks abroad,"
Under Titian's fiery woodlands
And the saffron skies of Claude:
There the Amazons of Rubens
Lift the failing arm to strike,
And the pale light falls in masses
On the horsemen of Vandyke;
And in Berghem's pools reflected
Hang the cattle's graceful shapes,
And Murillo's soft boy-faces
Laugh amid the Seville grapes;
And all purest, loveliest fancies
That in poet's soul may dwell,
Started into shape and substance
At the touch of Raphael.
Lo! her wan arms folded meekly,
And the glory of her hair,
Falling as a robe around her,
Kneels the Magdalen in prayer;
And the white-robed Virgin-mother
Smiles, as centuries back she smiled,
Half in gladness, half in wonder,
On the calm face of her Child:—
And that mighty Judgment-vision
Tells how men essayed to climb
Up the ladder of the ages,
Past the frontier-walls of Time;
Heard the trumpet-echoes rolling
Thro' the phantom-peopled sky,
And the still Voice bid this mortal
Put on immortality.
Calverley.
