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Title: The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance
With An Index To Their Works

Author: Bernhard Berenson

Release Date: December 28, 2005 [EBook #17408]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _Portrait of a Lady._

_From the Painting, possibly by Verrocchio, in the Poldi Museum at
Milan._]

THE
FLORENTINE PAINTERS
OF THE RENAISSANCE

WITH AN INDEX TO THEIR WORKS

BY
BERNHARD BERENSON

AUTHOR OF "VENETIAN PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE,"
"LORENZO LOTTO," "CENTRAL ITALIAN PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE"

THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press

COPYRIGHT, 1896
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_

* * * * *

COPYRIGHT, 1909
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
(For revised edition)

Made in the United States of America

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION

Years have passed since the second edition of this book. But as most of
this time has been taken up with the writing of my "Drawings of the
Florentine Painters," it has, in a sense, been spent in preparing me to
make this new edition. Indeed, it is to that bigger work that I must
refer the student who may wish to have the reasons for some of my
attributions. There, for instance, he will find the intricate Carli
question treated quite as fully as it deserves. Jacopo del Sellajo is
inserted here for the first time. Ample accounts of this frequently
entertaining tenth-rate painter may be found in articles by Hans
Makowsky, Mary Logan, and Herbert Horne.

The most important event of the last ten years, in the study of Italian
art, has been the rediscovery of an all but forgotten great master,
Pietro Cavallini. The study of his fresco at S. Cecilia in Rome, and of
the other works that readily group themselves with it, has illuminated
with an unhoped-for