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Title: Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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? This would occasion a long discussion if the space were accorded me. Let it suffice to say that the biography written by Vasari merits no credence, that it has been unfortunately accepted by the majority of historians, and that we have not yet a good chronology of Botticellis works, nor even a simple catalogue. As for the chronology, most historians, relying upon Vasari, place nearly all of Botticellis works before his trip to Rome in 1481. I think, on the contrary, and I will prove it elsewhere, that the great productive period of Botticelli belongs to the ten last years of the century and that the Primaveras hould be classed in this period. The Primavera represents, with The Birth of Venus and The Adoration of the Magi, the culminating point of Botticellis art. Jouin, Chefs-dcewvre: Peinture, Sculpture, Architecture (Paris,1895-97).
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Fisherman presenting the Ring to the Doge Gradenigo. Bordone. Great Pictures As Seen and Describedby Famous Writers EDITED AND TRANSLATED By ESTHER SINGLETON AUTHOR OF TURRETS, TOWERS, AND TEMPLES AND TRANSLATOR OF THE MUSIC DRAMAS OF RICHARD WAGNER With Numerous Illustrations 1 NEW YOR KDODD, MEAD AND COMPANY IQOI oAdut - Copyright, 189Q By Dodd, Mead and Company » /r I s5f SEitibcrsttg ^ircss John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S. A. Preface THE cordial reception of Turrets, Towers, and Temples has encouraged me to hope that a welcome may be given to a book treating the master-pieces of painting in a similar manner. Great writers and literary tourists have occasionally been inspired to record the impressions of their saunterings among galleries and museums. The most interesting of these, not necessarily professional, I have tried to bring together in the following pages. My object has been not to make a selection of the greatest pictures in the world, although many that have that reputation w

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