The Italian Schools of Painting

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Excerpt from The Italian Schools of Painting: With Observations on the Present State of the Art 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.