Excerpt from Famous Painters and Paintings<br><br>HE present edition has been carefully revised, and somewhat enlarged by additions to the text. The catalogue of paintings has been greatly extended, and ren dered more complete. It is not, of course, exhaustive, nor can it be supposed to record all the masterpieces of Re naissance painting, except in regard to those artists who produced few pictures, or of whose works but few still exist. The selections have been made with the assist ance of the best authorities in the history of art, and years of earnest personal study.<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.