Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 of 6: From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century; Containing the Schools of Florence and Siena
The tastes of individuals, however, are different, and some'people delight in minutiae, as it regards both the present and the past; and Since it maybe of utility tothose who may hereafter be inclined to give a very full and perfect history of every thing relating-to Italian painting, let us View Within dulgence those who have employed themselves in compiling lives so copious, and let those who have time to Spare, beguile it with their perusal. At the same time, due regard should be paid to that very respectable class of readers, ' who, in'a history of painting, would rather contemplate the artist than the man;.and who are less sollcltotls to become acquainted with the character of a single painter, whose solitary and insulated history cannot prove instructive, than with the genius, the method; the invention, and the style of a great number of art ists, with their characteristics, their merits, and their rank, the result of which is a history of the whole art.
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