Andrea Mantegna

244 Pages·2011·11.57 MB·Italian

by  Cruttwell, Maud

MASTERS
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IN POINTING SCULPTURE

The Great Masters
in Painting and Sculpture
Edited by Q. C. Williamson
ANDREA MANTEGNA
GREAT HASTERS IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
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ANDREA
MANTEGNA
MAUD CRUTTWELL
BY
Author of " LUCA SIGNORELLI," Etc.
LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1901

PREFACE
is with much diffidence that I have undertaken a
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work which deals with a Genius so great as
Mantegna, a work which I am fully conscious should
be attempted only by one far better equipped than
myself to comprehend the grandeur of the movement
of which he was representative.
I regret that the small dimensions of the present
series do not allow of an appendix, containing
the many documents discovered by the efforts of
M. Armand Baschet and the Conte Carlo d'Arco,
but to print even the most important only would
enlarge the volume too considerably.
I wish to express my deep sense of gratitude to
Mr Bernhard Berenson for the generous aid he has
invariably given. To his personal counsel and to his
published works particularly "The Florentine" and
"The Central I alian Painters of the Renaissance" I
owe most, not only of my understanding, but of my
enjoyment of fifteenth century Italian art. To the
kindness of Dr Gronau, also, I owe much for several
important suggestions.
MAUD CRUTTWELL.
FLORENCE, September 1901,
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