A guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries; the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia; a critical catalogue with quotations from Vasari
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Co.to at a later date aThe publishers hope issue guideto the in the Florentine similar inpictures Churches^to the volume.style presentA GUIDE to the PAINTINGS inthe FLORENTINE GALLERIESThe UFFIZI The PITTIThe ACCADEMIAA CRITICAL CATALOGUE WITHFROM VASARIQUOTATIONSMAUD CRUTTWELLByMINIATUREILLUSTRATED WITH MANYREPRODUCTIONS OF THE PICTURES1907LONDON: M. DENT 6? COMPANYJ.NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON 6? CO.All reserved.rightsPrinted HANSON <5r Co.by BALLANTYNE,theAt Ballantyne Press, EdinburghPREFATORY NOTICESo have been made withinmany important changesthe last few in the three Florentine Galleriesyearsthat a new hasGuide become Notindispensable.have new rooms been, onesonly closed,a^dgdyyoicland the of numerous beenplaces paintings changed,but of the old erroneous attributions have atmanylast been altered in with modern scien-conformitytific criticism and evidence. Newdocumentaryworks have been and the entire collectionacquired,of the of Maria Nuova has been addedS.Galleryto the ..." />
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With Illustrations.157
Octavo.Imperial
" This illustratedbeautifully
work . . . takes rank amongst
the best art of themonographs
Art.day." Magazine of
LONDON : M. DENT &* Co.J.
NEWYORK : E. P.DUTTON &> Co.
to at a later date aThe publishers hope issue guide
to the in the Florentine similar inpictures Churches^
to the volume.style present A GUIDE to the PAINTINGS in
the FLORENTINE GALLERIES
The UFFIZI The PITTI
The ACCADEMIA
A CRITICAL CATALOGUE WITH
FROM VASARIQUOTATIONS
MAUD CRUTTWELLBy
MINIATUREILLUSTRATED WITH MANY
REPRODUCTIONS OF THE PICTURES
1907
LONDON: M. DENT 6? COMPANYJ.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON 6? CO. All reserved.rights
Printed HANSON <5r Co.by BALLANTYNE,
theAt Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh PREFATORY NOTICE
So have been made withinmany important changes
the last few in the three Florentine Galleriesyears
that a new hasGuide become Notindispensable.
have new rooms been, onesonly closed,a^dgdyyoicl
and the of numerous beenplaces paintings changed,
but of the old erroneous attributions have atmany
last been altered in with modern scien-conformity
tific criticism and evidence. Newdocumentary
works have been and the entire collection
acquired,
of the of Maria Nuova has been addedS.Gallery
to the andUffizi the rest. Thedispersed among
official sold at the entrance it iscatalogues have, true,
been to date asbrought up regards arrangement
and the new but are otherwiseattributions, they
mere of the old.reprints
The work is intended not as afollowing only
for use in the but as a book ofcatalogue Galleries,
reference for the student. All the facts known
the are and anconcerning pictures given, alpha-
betical index of the whose works arepainters
with the date of theirmentioned, death,birth,
and isschool, master, influences, appended.
The indescriptions given guide-books,usually
and even in critical works are to
catalogues, apt
be of toomost wearisome and reasonuseless, by
much detail. If the reader is withunacquainted PREFATORY NOTICE
no amount of such minutethe painting descrip-
him to visualize If he istions will enable it.
with it are What isthey superfluous.acquainted
needed is to draw attention to the general effect,
of ofto composition,peculiarities atmospheric
of and to suchand andeffect, colour, special
characteristic features as notice. Tomight escape
mention each tint on the topainter's palette, repeat
notice of the Madonna that she is robedafter each
blue and holds the Infant Christ in herin red and
is the time of both writer andarms, simply wasting
reader.
In of such useless I havedescriptionsplace
words on such works as he hasVasarPsquoted
wherewith omissions are toonoticed, they prolix,
as are to be in the case of theapt paintersthey
of his own However much Vasari be
day. may
incorrectness as to his criticismsblamed for facts,
are sound and to the and hisgenerally point, descrip-
tions have charm. He is moreovergreat literary
the source of our of the Italian painters,knowledge
word has value and interest.and as such every
In the order of rooms andarranging pictures
I have tried to save the visitor to the Galleries
as much as and have therefore begun,possible,
the last rooms at the further end ofnot with
the Uffizithe as in the official toGalleries, guides
and but at the entrances. to constantPitti, Owing
of the of the isplace pictureschanges numbering
in so chaotic a state that sort of numericalany
has been evenabandoned,sequence necessarily by
ofthe official has been takenguides. Advantage
onthis disorder to each room with the wallbegin
which the falls on
eye naturally entry.
