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Автор: Luigi Lanzi
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       Luigi Lanzi

      The History of Painting in Italy

       Complete Edition

       Translator: Thomas Roscoe

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN: 4064066390006

       Volume 1

       Volume 2

       Volume 3

       Volume 4

       Volume 5

      VOLUME 1

       Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE.

       HISTORY OF PAINTING IN LOWER ITALY.

       BOOK I.

       FLORENTINE SCHOOL.

       EPOCH I.

       SECT. I.

       SECT. II.

       SECTION III.

       EPOCH II.

       EPOCH III.

       EPOCH IV.

       EPOCH V.

       BOOK II.

       SIENESE SCHOOL.

       EPOCH I.

       EPOCH II.

       EPOCH III.

      PREFACE.

       Table of Contents

      When detached or individual histories become so numerous that they can neither be easily collected nor perused, the public interest requires a writer capable of arranging and embodying them in the form of a general historical narrative; not, indeed, by a minute detail of their whole contents, but by selecting from each that which appears most interesting and instructive. Hence it mostly happens, that the diffuse compositions of earlier ages are found to give place to compendiums, and to succinct history. If this desire has prevailed in former times, it has been, and now is, more especially the characteristic of our own. We live in an age highly favourable, in one sense at least, to the cultivation of intellect: the boundaries of science are now extended beyond what our forefathers could have hoped, much less foreseen; and we become anxious only to discover the readiest methods of obtaining a competent knowledge, at least, of several sciences, since it is impossible to acquire them all. On the other hand, the ages preceding ours, since the revival of learning, being more occupied about words than things, and admiring certain objects that now seem trivial to the generality of readers, have produced historical compositions, the separate nature of which demands combination, no less than their prolixity requires abridgment.

      The tastes of individuals, however, are different, and some people delight in minutiæ, as it regards both the present and the past; and since it may be of utility to those who may hereafter be inclined to give a very full and perfect history of every thing relating to Italian painting, let us view with indulgence 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 solicitous 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 artists, with their characteristics, their merits, and their rank, the result of which is a history of the whole art.