The Cicerone
ISBN: 978-13-343-4437-4
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Liczba stron: 348
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2017 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: aktualnie niedostępny
Excerpt from The Cicerone: An Art Guide to Painting in Italy, for the Use of Travellers and Students<br><br>And thus the scientific expert may hold Dr Burckhardt's Cicerone to be old-fashioned and superseded. As an intro duction to the study of Italian Art it still holds its own place and fully justifies a reprint. More than that, it occupies a unique place; for the overwhelming mass of literature on Italian Art, printed during the last two decades, includes not a single volume that can vie with Dr Burckhardt's, as regards terse completeness and practical arrangement. It is the only book on the subject that combines the qualities of a useful guide-book with those of a chrono logical history of the entire _art of Italy - an achievementf that would be impossible without an ingenious and elaborate system of sub-divisions, cross-references and indices. Dr Burckhardt's history is indeed a Cicerone - a guide and instructor, and it fulfilsin the fullest sense of the word the function claimed for it by the sub-title of the first German edition: An Introduction to the Enjoyment of the Art Treasures of Italy. P. G. Konody.<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.