Correggio, of Giorgione, Raphael, Ribera, and the other masters of the great art revival of Italy, are ripe with the ripeness of centuries. Their splendors have ceased to be mere matters of rare artistic skill, and they have taken their places among the classics of art. So, too, each in their degree, have the masterpieces of Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vandyck, in the Netherlands; those of Watteau, Boucher, Poussin, Mignard, Lebrun in France; of Durer, Holbein, and the rest,

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Caspar Ritter