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The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance (Classic Reprint)
The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance - Classic Reprint Author:Bernard Berenson '... work of art is the occasion. What I do wish to say is that unless it satisfies our tactile imagination, a picture will not exert the fascination of an ever-heightened reality; first we shall exhaust its ideas, and then its power of appealing to our emotions, and its "beauty" will not seem more significant at the thousandth look than at the ... more »first.
My need of dwelling upon this subject at all, I must repeat, arises from the fact that although this principle is important indeed in other schools, it is all-important in the Florentine school. Without its due appreciation it would be impossible to do justice to Florentine painting. We should lose ourselves in admiration of its "teaching," or perchance of its historical importance--as if historical importance were synonymous with artistic significance!--but we should never realise what artistic idea haunted the minds of its great men, and never understand why at a date so early it became academic....'
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PAGE; THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE; I; INDEX TO THE YORKS OF THE PRINCIPAL; FLORENTINE PAINTERS 95; INDEX OF PLACES 143
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