Excerpt from The Italian Schools of Painting: With Observations on the Present State of the Art<br><br>AN historical account of the several Italian schools of painting is a desideratum of the present day. It is indeed much to be lamented that the publication of a work of this description, projected some few years since, under the title, The Italian School of Design, should have been discontinued, since it came from a person better qualified than, perhaps, any other in the country, to do justice to the undertaking. One num ber only appeared, and unfortunately on so extensive and costly a scale, that while it could not but be regarded as a valuable and highly ornamental addition to our stock of literature, yet it was in a great degree ill.<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.