[[181]] Milton's Il Penseroso, 170 ff.

[[182]] Psalms i, 3.

[[183]] As Slade Professor, Ruskin held a three years' appointment at Oxford.

[[184]] This story comes from Pliny, Natural History, 35. 36; the two rival painters alternately showing their skill by the drawing of lines of increasing fineness.

[[185]] This story comes from Vasari's Lives of the Painters. See Blashfield and Hopkins's ed. vol. 1, p. 61. Giotto was asked by a messenger of the Pope for a specimen of his work, and sent a perfect circle, drawn free hand.

[[186]] Timothy vi, 10.

[[187]] In Modern Painters, vol. 1.

[[188]] The quotation is from Vasari's account of Angelico's Last Judgment (now in the Accademia at Florence). [Cook and Wedderbum.]

[[189]] Song of Solomon i, 6.

[[190]] Cf. Classical Landscape, pp. 92-93.