Yet his art has its dwelling-place in the early Romanesque savageness and strangeness.

And the reader remembers Duerer's brooding muse called Melancholia that so obsessed Kipling in The Light that Failed.

But the wonder-quality went into nearly all the Duerer wood-cuts and etchings.

Rembrandt is a prophet-wizard, not only in his shadowy portraits, but in his etchings of holy scenes even his simplest cobweb lines become incantations.

Other artists in the high tides of history have had kindred qualities, but coming close to our day, Elihu Vedder, the American, the illustrator of the Rubaiyat, found it a poem questioning all things, and his very illustrations answer in a certain fashion with winds of infinity, and bring the songs of Omar near to the Book of Job.