6o Ellen Key Stockholm, and also by her art-loving father's descriptions of his travels in youth. About Raphael's Sistine Madonna she says: "My father's impassioned descriptions, together with an old woodcut I have had from child- hood, made an impersonal judgment im- possible for me. The Madonna's face, the deep eyes, which appear to widen within, and the even more wonderful expression of the child, move me profoundly each time I see the picture. ..." Through the Dresden Gallery, a volume of engravings, she knew the names and compositions of a great many other paintings, and she surprised her father, when they were in Dresden, by her recognition of the great art schools of which she had seen examples for the first time in Berlin. In Cassel, Rembrandt impressed her for life. On their arrival home her father declared that "her passion for art was so violent that she needed a whole regiment of soldiers to accompany her one after the other, and that she would wear them all out. Visiting the same galleries many years later, she was herself surprised to find how deep had been her impressions from that first hasty trip, which only allowed for one, or at most two visits to each museum.