Excerpt from Seven Angels of the Renascence: The Story of Art, From Cimabue to Claude<br><br>I have been engaged upon this book for many years. It is impossible to see with one's own eyes, and to form one's own judgment of the works of the Masters, scattered as they are through Italy and Germany and France, without the expenditure of much time and travel. Some fragments of the book have appeared as articles or reviews - in The Contemporary, The National Review, Literature, The Guardian, The N ew York Critic, and other English and American Journals - some have formed the substance of lectures at the Royal Institution.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.