A history of Italian painting

by Frank Jewett Mather

[41]. Antonio Pollaiuolo. Maud Crutwell’s Antonio Pollaiuolo, London and New York, 1907. For later information consult Venturi, Storia, Vol. VII, pt. I, pp. 558–578.

[42]. Piero della Francesca. W. G. Waters, Piero della Francesca, London, 1901; and Corrado Ricci’s superbly illustrated folio, Piero della Francesca, Rome, 1910.

[43]. Early Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Magnificently reproduced in the album accompanying Ernst Steinmann’s Die Sixtinische Cappelle, Munich, 1901.

[44]. Francesco Pesellino. Consult Dr. W. Weisbach’s able and beautifully illustrated work, Francesco Pesellino und die Romantik der Frührenaissance, Berlin, 1901. For cuts of Cassoni, Paul Schubring, Cassoni, Leipzig, 1915, and the books and articles already cited in note 6 to Chapter 3.

[45]. Domenico Ghirlandaio. A copious and satisfactory life is that of Gerald S. Davies, Ghirlandaio, London and New York, 1909. Briefer but of greater cultural scope is Ghirlandaio, by Henri Hauvette, Paris, “Les maîtres de l’art.” For a summary criticism my article in The Nation (N. Y.), Aug. 20, 1908, p. 167. Ruskin’s famous assault on Ghirlandaio in Mornings in Florence is joyous reading if whimsically exaggerated.

CHAPTER V.—BOTTICELLI AND LEONARDO DA VINCI

[46]. Botticelli. The standard work is Herbert P. Horne, Sandro Botticelli, London, 1908. A little additional information may be found in Crowe and Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, Hutton Ed. Vol. II, and in Venturi, Storia dell’ Arte Italiana, Vol. VII, pt. 1.

Walter Pater’s essay in The Renaissance offers beautifully a one-sided view. The essays, the Soul of a Fact, and Quattrocentisteria, in Maurice Hewlett’s Earthwork out of Tuscany are poetically illuminative. Mr. Berenson’s analysis in Florentine Painters of the Renaissance is important. I have written more fully on Botticelli in Estimates in Art, New York, 1912.

Botticelli’s Dante illustrations are published in a cheaper and more sumptuous form by Friedrich P. Lippmann. Botticelli, Zeichnungen von Sandro Botticelli, Berlin, 1896.

Lists of Botticelli’s works differ considerably. I incline to accept a number of early paintings which are neglected by such exclusive critics as Berenson and Horne. My own list, which for reasons of space cannot be given here, would not differ much from that of A. Venturi, in Storia VII, i, 588–642.