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Excerpt from The Characteristics of Sienese Art
One cannot separate art from life. In no place is this truth more felt and better shown than at Siena. Her history, both in her civil and political life, is recorded not so much in books and chronicles, as in her buildings and monuments, paintings, decorations and works of art, in which her people have expressed not only their wishes, aspirations, habits and tastes, but also their sufferings and joys, philosophy and faith. We have here a special store of facts and ideas, belief and style, which give to her art a primitive and definite character; also an originality which has been maintained through the varied and changeful periods of political and social life by which it is distinguished from the art of other towns of Tuscany; Florence, Pisa, Lucca, by calling it Sienese Art Sienese Art, because it has left its characteristic stamp within the confines of the little State, far from the frequented roads of the plain and from communication with the sea, which territory seems naturally separated, almost cut off, from that of the neighbouring Provinces an art which has risen with the origin of the Free Commune and died with the death of the little Republic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
