a hand book of the history of painting

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GENERAL LITERARY MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF ITALIAN PAINTING. I. PRINCIPAL HISTORICAL WORKS. Earliest Memoirs relating to the History of Art, by Lorenzo Ghiberti (the Florentine sculptor, who died 1455) : Commentario sulle Arti. Extracts from the MS. are printed in Cicognara: Storia della Scultura, ii. 99. Giorgio Vasari : Le vite dei piu eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori. Second edition, corrected and enlarged by the author: Florence, 1568.—Later reprints : Bologna, 1647-48, 1663, and Florence, 1823.—The edition of Rome, 1758 (colle note e illustrazioni di Gio. Bottari), printed also at Leghorn and Florence, 1767-72, contains important notes and corrections.—That of Siena, 1791-94 (pubbl. per opera del P. Guglielmo della Valle), is less useful.—Reprint of the last: Milano, 1807 (dalla societa tipografica de' Classici Ita- liani).—German edition: Leben der ausgezeichnetsten Maler, Bildhauer und Baumeister, etc. beschrieben von Giorgio Vasari. Aus dem Italienischen. Mit den wichtigsten An- merkungen der fruheren Herausgeber, so wie mit neueren Berichtigungen und Nachweisungen begleitet und heraus- gegebenvonLudwig Schorn. Stuttgart und Tubingen, 1832. (This excellent edition is as yet unfinished.) Raffaello Borghini : II Riposo, in cui della pittura e della scultura si favella, de' piii illustri pittori e scultori, ecc. Fiorenza, 1584. D. Jacopo Morelli : Notizia d' opere di disegno nella prima meta del secolo XVI.; scritta da un anonimo di quel tempo. Bassano, 1800. Filippo Baldinucci : Notizie del professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, ec. Firenze, 1681-1728. Later editions: Firenze, 1767-74 (Ediz. accresciuta di annota- zioni da Dom. Maria Manni).—Turino, 1768-1817 (con varie dissertazioni, note ed aggiunte da Gius. Piacenza). Works on the H...
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