Excerpt from Great Epochs in Art History<br><br>Criticism, pure and simple, should be based on science, or exact scientific knowledge, but I am of the Opinion that the scientific method may be too rigidly employed, and that works of art ought to be studied not in an exclusively analytic way, as if they were dead, but as if they were living, in the spirit of love in which they were created, and that is the joyful and inspiring source of art.<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.