Excerpt from Catalogue of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden<br><br>Art-history has become an independent science, during the period which has elapsed since Julius Hiibner in the year 1856, published the first edition of his Cata logue of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden which for its time and of its kind, was worthy of all respect. Fresh light has been thrown upon the lives of a great many, perhaps the majority, of artists, through the study of archives; and by means of these researches and by comparative study of pictures, new and often surprising results have been attained concerning the authors of a considerable number of old pictures in all the collections of Europe.<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.