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Years have passed since the second edition of this book. But as most of this time has been taken up with the writing of my "Drawings of the Florentine Painters," it has, in a sense, been spent in preparing me to make this new edition. Indeed, it is to that bigger work that I m...
Years have passed since the second edition of this book. But as most of this time has been taken up with the writing of my "Drawings of the Florentine Painters," it has, in a se...
2. Chapter 2Still another exemplification of his sense for the significant is furnished by his treatment of action and movement. The grouping, the gestures never fail to be just such as wil...
3. Chapter 3What is a Naturalist? I venture upon the following definition:--A man with a native gift for science who has taken to art. His purpose is not to extract the material and spiritu...
4. Chapter 4Before Verrocchio, his precursors, first Alessio Baldovinetti and then Pollaiuolo, had attempted to treat landscape as naturalistically as painting would permit. Their ideal was...
5. Chapter 5Andrea del Sarto approached perhaps as closely to a Giorgione or a Titian as could a Florentine, ill at ease in the neighbourhood of Leonardo and Michelangelo. As an artist he w...
6. Chapter 6Aix-en-Provence. MUSÉE. Madonna and infant John adoring Child. Arezzo. MUSEO, SALA II, 4. Tabernacle: Magdalen and St. Antony at foot of Cross. Dresden. 17 and 18. _Tondi_: SS....
7. Chapter 7Bergamo. MORELLI, 33. Tobias and the Angel. Berlin. 70A. Crucifixion and Saints, 1475. 72. Coronation of the Virgin. E. Boston (U. S. A.). MRS. J. L. GARDNER. Madonna in Landsca...
8. Chapter 8Assisi. S. FRANCESCO, LOWER CHURCH, CHAPEL OF THE MAGDALEN: Frescoes: Feast in the House of Simon (in great part); Raising of Lazarus; "Noli me Tangere," (in part); Magdalen and...
9. Chapter 9Budapest. 50. Madonna and Angels. Florence. ACADEMY, 14. Vision of St. Bernard and Saints. 40. Trinity with Evangelist and St. Romuald. 1365. UFFIZI, 10. St. Bartholomew and Ang...
10. Chapter 10Altenburg. LINDENAU MUSEUM, 99. Adoration of Magi. 105. Madonna with Tobias and John. 150. St. Jerome. Arezzo. SALA II, 9. Madonna against Rose-hedge. Bergamo. CARRARA, 167. Bus...
11. Chapter 11Agram (Croatia). STROSSMAYER COLLECTION: Albertinelli, Fra Angelico, Bugiardini, Cosimo Rosselli. Aix-en-Provence. MUSÉE: Alunno di Domenico. Altenburg. LINDENAU MUSEUM: Amico d...