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

Portrait of a Lady. From the Painting, possibly by Verrocchio, in the Poldi Museum at Milan.
WITH AN INDEX TO THEIR WORKS
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
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 light the problem of Giotto’s origin and development. I felt stimulated to a fresh consideration of the subject. The results will be noted here in the inclusion, for the first time, of Cimabue, and in the lists of paintings ascribed to Giotto and his immediate assistants.
B. B.