1901. Hoppin addresses this volume to students of the history and criticism of art. His interest lies in bringing out new beauties in old things that the world has consented to call beautiful, and that have won their claim to the studious attention of lovers of art. The first essay, on Italian Religious Painting, is limited mainly to the art of Northern Middle Italy of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The other three essays are titled: A Post-Pheidian Greek Sculptor; French Gothic Architecture; and English Pre-Raphaelites.