Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Cicerone: An Art Guide to Painting in Italy, for the Use of Travellers and Students
And thus the scientific expert may hold Dr Burckhardt's Cicerone to be old-fashioned and superseded. As an intro duction to the study of Italian Art it still holds its own place and fully justifies a reprint. More than that, it occupies a unique place; for the overwhelming mass of literature on Italian Art, printed during the last two decades, includes not a single volume that can vie with Dr Burckhardt's, as regards terse completeness and practical arrangement. It is the only book on the subject that combines the qualities of a useful guide-book with those of a chrono logical history of the entire _art of Italy - an achievementf that would be impossible without an ingenious and elaborate system of sub-divisions, cross-references and indices. Dr Burckhardt's history is indeed a Cicerone - a guide and instructor, and it fulfilsin the fullest sense of the word the function claimed for it by the sub-title of the first German edition: An Introduction to the Enjoyment of the Art Treasures of Italy. P. G. Konody.
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