Chapter I: Front Matter

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The Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture

Edited by G. C. Williamson

REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

THE GREAT MASTERS IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.

_The following Volumes have been issued, price 5s. net each._

BERNARDINO LUINI. By =George C. Williamson=, Litt.D., Editor of the
Series.

VELASQUEZ. By =R. A. M. Stevenson=.

ANDREA DEL SARTO. By =H. Guinness=.

LUCA SIGNORELLI. By =Maud Cruttwell=.

RAPHAEL. By =H. Strachey=.

CARLO CRIVELLI. By =G. McNeil Rushforth=, M.A., Lecturer in
Classics, Oriel College, Oxford.

CORREGGIO. By =Selwyn Brinton=, M.A., Author of "The Renaissance in
Italian Art."

DONATELLO. By =Hope Rea=, Author of "Tuscan Artists."

PERUGINO. By =G. C. Williamson=, Litt.D.

SODOMA. By the =Contessa Lorenzo Priuli-Bon=.

LUCA DELLA ROBBIA. By the =Marchesa Burlamacchi=.

GIORGIONE. By =Herbert Cook=, M.A., F.S.A.

MEMLINO. By =W. H. James Weale=, late Keeper of the National Art
Library.

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PINTORICCHIO. By =Evelyn March Phillipps=.

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_In preparation._

WILKIE. By =Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower=, M.A., F.S.A., Trustee of
the National Portrait Gallery.

TINTORETTO. By =J. B. Stoughton Holborn=, M.A. of Merton College,
Oxford.

GIOTTO. By =F. Mason Perkins=.

EL GRECO. By =Manuel B. Cossio=, Litt.D., Ph.D., Director of the
Mus[e']e P[e']dagogique, Madrid.

D[U"]RER. By =Hans W. Singer=, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Director of
the Royal Print Room, Dresden.

PAOLO VERONESE. By =Roger E. Fry=.

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_Others to follow._

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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

BY MALCOLM BELL

AUTHOR OF "SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES: A RECORD AND REVIEW," ETC.

LONDON

GEORGE BELL & SONS

1901