Little literature of a general sort is available to the English
speaking reader. Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _A History of Painting in
Northern Italy_, admirably edited by Tancred Borenius, in three
volumes, London, 1913, is the chief repository of facts. Evelyn March
Phillipps, _The Venetian School of Painting_, London, 1912, is an
excellent brief survey. For readers of Italian Lionello Venturi’s _Le
Origini della Pittura Veneziana_, Venice, 1911, is the best book. A
treasure house of materials in Laudadeo Testi’s two volumes, _La
Storia della Pittura Veneziana_, Bergamo. John Ruskin’s masterpiece,
_Stones of Venice_, may be consulted with profit and delight. There
are treasures of antiquarian information in Pompeo Molmenti, _La
Storia di Venezia nella Vita Privata_, 3 vols., Bergamo, 1905.
Footnote 71:
_Jacopo Bellini._ The extraordinary and fascinating sketch books are
published in two forms, by Corrado Ricci, _Jacopo Bellini e i suo
libri di designi_, 2 vols., Florence, 1908, and by V. Goloubew, _Les
Dessins de Jacopo Bellini_, Bruxelles, 1908.
Footnote 72:
G. McNeill Rushforth, _Carlo Crivelli_, London, 1900.
Footnote 73:
_Andrea Mantegna._ The standard work is by Paul Kristeller, _Andrea
Mantegna_, London and New York, 1901. Maud Crutwell’s short biography,
_Andrea Mantegna_, London, 1901, is excellent. Mr. Berenson’s subtle
analysis in _North Italian Painters of the Renaissance_ perhaps
overstresses Andrea’s defects. Mantegna’s complete works are
reproduced in _Klassiker der Kunst_, No. XVI, Stuttgart, 1910.
Footnote 74:
_Antonello da Messina._ See L. Venturi, _Le Origini_, and A. Venturi,
_Storia_, VII, pt. 4. Recent attributions, Bernard Berenson, _Study
and Criticism of Italian Art_, 3rd Series, London, 1916, p. 79 _ff._
Footnote 75:
_Giovanni Bellini._ Nothing notable in English except casual criticism
by Ruskin and Roger E. Fry’s admirable little book, _Giovanni
Bellini_, London, 1899, which is unfortunately out of print. For such
as read German—Georg Gronau, _Die Künstler-familie Bellini_, Leipzig,
1907, with abundant illustrations. Recently discovered pictures and a
better chronology, in Bernard Berenson: _Venetian Painting in
America_, New York, 1916.
Footnote 76:
_Vettor Carpaccio._ Ludwig and Molmenti’s _The Life and Works of
Victor Carpaccio_, London, 1907, gives, aside from its main topic, a
vivid picture of the cultural condition of Venice about 1500. See my
essay review of it in _The Nation_, Vol. 86, (1908) pp. 315 _ff._ John
Ruskin’s delightful comments on Carpaccio are mostly in the _Guide to
the Academy_ at Venice and in _St. Mark’s Rest_, chapter _The Shrine
of the Slaves_, Library ed. Vol. XXIV.
Footnote 77:
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