_Domenico Ghirlandaio._ A copious and satisfactory life is that of
Gerald S. Davies, _Ghirlandaio_, London and New York, 1909. Briefer
but of greater cultural scope is Ghirlandaio, by Henri Hauvette,
Paris, “Les maîtres de l’art.” For a summary criticism my article in
_The Nation_ (N. Y.), Aug. 20, 1908, p. 167. Ruskin’s famous assault
on Ghirlandaio in _Mornings in Florence_ is joyous reading if
whimsically exaggerated.
CHAPTER V.—BOTTICELLI AND LEONARDO DA VINCI
Footnote 46:
_Botticelli._ The standard work is Herbert P. Horne, _Sandro
Botticelli_, London, 1908. A little additional information may be
found in Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _A History of Painting in Italy_,
Hutton Ed. Vol. II, and in Venturi, _Storia dell’ Arte Italiana_, Vol.
VII, pt. 1.
Walter Pater’s essay in _The Renaissance_ offers beautifully a
one-sided view. The essays, the _Soul of a Fact_, and
_Quattrocentisteria_, in Maurice Hewlett’s _Earthwork out of Tuscany_
are poetically illuminative. Mr. Berenson’s analysis in _Florentine
Painters of the Renaissance_ is important. I have written more fully
on Botticelli in _Estimates in Art_, New York, 1912.
Botticelli’s Dante illustrations are published in a cheaper and more
sumptuous form by Friedrich P. Lippmann. _Botticelli, Zeichnungen von
Sandro Botticelli_, Berlin, 1896.
Lists of Botticelli’s works differ considerably. I incline to accept a
number of early paintings which are neglected by such exclusive
critics as Berenson and Horne. My own list, which for reasons of space
cannot be given here, would not differ much from that of A. Venturi,
in _Storia_ VII, i, 588–642.
Footnote 47:
_Filippino Lippi._ I. B. Supino, _Les deux Lippi_, Firenze, 1904.
Footnote 48:
_Piero di Cosimo._ Fritz Knapp, _Piero di Cosimo_, Halle, 1899. As
usual later information in Venturi, _Storia_, Vol. VII, pt. 1.
Footnote 49:
This extraordinary series of which four have been recovered is fully
discussed and somewhat differently interpreted by Roger E. Fry, in
_Burlington Magazine_, Vol. XXXVIII, p. 131_f._ See also letter on
page 257.
Footnote 50:
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