Sculpture, Renaissance and Modern (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Scott, Leader

 
9781333035372: Sculpture, Renaissance and Modern (Classic Reprint)

Présentation de l'éditeur

JieuL vPKEFACE. It is not an easy task to fulfil the title of this series of hooks, and to comhine the weight of history with the necessary slightnesa of a hand-hook. It can only be done hy a resolute compression of facts which is necessarily cramping to the author and probably dry for the reader. I have done ray best to comply with the conditions and avoid the dangers: with how littJ eor how much success I fear to judge; for after all, my little work is more an outline than substantial history: to the student it may prove useful as a classification of the different schools, and to the amateur as a gallery-companion in continental travel Kecessarily the bulk of the book is devoted to Italian A rt, because for the four hundred years of which we chiefly write, Italy was the cradle of the artistic world. The northern Gothic school was the mother of Italian sculpture; the northern Modem schools are its daughters. L. S. Florence, Jamiary,
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