Excerpt from The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance Other students may have anticipated the publication of this or that result at which I have arrived in the course of the last twenty years. I am delighted that they have, for it proves that our studies have a scientific basis. But I pray these colleagues to forgive me if I have not taken the time and the trouble to keep a double entry of our agreements. 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.

A two vol. ed. of Berenson's famous essays on the Venetian, Florentine, Central and North Italian painters of the Renaissance which first appeared between 1894 and 1907. They have since taken their place among the great writings of art criticism and often described as one of the best introductions in any language to any school of painting.