A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . DANA ESTES AND CO. BOSTON. SEP 2 8 1957 I 0 0 9G> FOREWORD To the student who desires full information upon the significanceof the Italian genius in painting after the great outburst of thatgenius in the Renaissance, in the years of the so-called Decline,I can find few books to recommend in the English tongue—forthe greatness of the Naturalisti has not yet been discovered,whilst the old vogue of the Eclectics was exaggerated as muchin laudation as it is to-day condemned by contempt. But thegreat Spaniards have come into their own—o
A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . DANA ESTES AND CO. BOSTON. SEP 2 8 1957 I 0 0 9G> FOREWORD To the student who desires full information upon the significanceof the Italian genius in painting after the great outburst of thatgenius in the Renaissance, in the years of the so-called Decline,I can find few books to recommend in the English tongue—forthe greatness of the Naturalisti has not yet been discovered,whilst the old vogue of the Eclectics was exaggerated as muchin laudation as it is to-day condemned by contempt. But thegreat Spaniards have come into their own—or are coming. Thebest authorities on the scientific side concerning Velazquez andSpanish art generally are Beruete and Carl Justi, and they maybe read in an English translation. An excellent survey of theSpanish achievement, set forth in fairly good balance, is the volumewritten by Mrs. Gasquoine Hartley, entitled A Record ofSpanish Painting. The writings of R. A. M. Stevenson,Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Arthur Symons, W. Rothenstein,and the many brilliant students, English a
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