The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance - With An Index To Their Works by Bernhard Berenson
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famous "Assumption," painted for Matteo Palmieri, and now in the
National Gallery, already passed in Vasari's time for a Botticelli, and the attribution at Karlsruhe of the quaint and winning "Nativity" to the sublime, unyielding Piero della Francesca is surely nothing more than the echo of the real author's name. Most inadequate accounts, yet more than can be given here, of Pier Francesco, as well as of Botticini, will be found in the Italian edition of Cavalcaselle's _Storia della Pittura in Italia_, Vol. VII. The latter painter will doubtless be dealt with fully and ably in Mr. Herbert P. Horne's forthcoming book on Botticelli, and in this connection I am happy to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Horne for having persuaded me to study Botticini. Of Amico di Sandro I have written at length in the _Gazette des Beaux Arts_, June and July, 1899. FIESOLE, November, 1899. CONTENTS. PAGE THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE 1 INDEX TO THE WORKS OF THE PRINCIPAL FLORENTINE PAINTERS 95 INDEX OF PLACES 189 |
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