The Picture Collector S Manual Adapted To The Professional Man And The Amateur Being A Dictionary Of Painters Together With An

Excerpt from The Picture Collector's Manual, Adapted to the Professional Man, and the Amateur, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a Dictionary of Painters, Containing Fifteen Hundred More Names Than in Any Other Work; Together With an Alphabetical Arrangement of the Scholars, Imitators, and Copyists of the Various Masters The Fine Arts had long been on the decline in the classic regions of Greece and Italy, and although the lambent flame of genius, continued to hover between those countries, and in Egypt, its influence was scarcely felt in either, if we may judge from the rude specimens with which we have been furnished, until the commence ment of the thirteenth century, at about which period, a spark of its sacred fire appears to have fallen upon Cimabue, who by his example, gave a new impulse to the art, and thus laid the foundation of that greatness, to which the Florentine School now lays claim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Picture Collector's Manual, Vol. 2 of 2: Adapted to the Professional Man, and the Amateur; Being a Dictionary of Painters, Containing Fifteen Hundred More Names Than in Any Other Work, Together With an Alphabetical Arrangement of the Scholars, Imitators, and Copyists of the Various Masters Containing the names of the principal Masters, with those of their Pupils, Copyists, and Imitators alphabetically arranged under each. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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