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Very fine reproductions of the works of the principal painters of the time are published in separate volumes of the series, Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart und Leipzig. A brief list of standard criticisms of art, many of them well illustrated, follows:

K. Woermann: Geschichte der Kunst aller Zeiten und Voelker. Band 4. 1919.

S. Reinach: Apollo. 1907. (Also English translation. Marvelously compressed and sound criticism).

J. A. Symonds: The Italian Renaissance. The Fine Arts. 1888.

L. Pastor: History of the Popes. (Much on art at Rome, passim).

B. Berenson: North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. 1907.

B. Berenson: Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance. 1897.

B. Berenson: The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance. 1902.

B. Berenson: The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. 1903.

Giorgio Vasari: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, newly translated by G. du C. de Vere. 10 vols. 1912-14. (Other editions).

E. Lanciani: The Golden Days of the Renaissance in Rome. 1907.

E. Muentz: Histoire de l' art pendant la Renaissance. 3 vols. 1889-95.

J. Crowe and G. Cavalcaselle: History of Italian Painting. 1903 ff.

L. Dimier: French Painting in the Sixteenth Century. 1904.

L. F. Freeman: Italian Sculptors of the Renaissance. 1902.

H. Janitschek: Geschichte der deutschen Malerei. 1890.

H. A. Dickenson: German Masters of Art. 1914.

E. Bertaux: Rome de l' avenement de Jules II a nos jours. 1908.

M. Reymond: L' Education de Leonard. 1910.

W. Pater: "Leonardo da Vinci," in the volume called The Renaissance, 1878. (Though much attacked this is, in my opinion, the best criticism of Leonardo).

S. Freud: Leonardo da Vinci. 1910.

W. von Seidlitz: Leonardo da Vinci. 2 vols. 1909. (Excellent).

Osvald Siren: Leonardo da Vinci. 1916.

Leonardo da Vinci: A treatise on painting, translated from the Italian by J. F. Rigaud. London. 1897.

C. J. Holmes: Leonardo da Vinci. Proceedings of the British Academy. 1919.

E. Muentz: Raphael, sa vie, son oeuvre et son temps. 1881.

W. Pater: "Raphael," in Miscellaneous Studies, 1913. (First written 1892: fine criticism).

Edward McCurdy: Raphael Santi. 1917.

H. Grimm: Life of Michael Angelo, tr. by F. E. Bunnett. 2 vols. New ed. 1906.

Crowe and Cavalcasselle: Life and Times of Titian. 1877.

H. Thode: Michelangelo und das Ende der Renaissance. 5 vols. 1902-13.

L. Dorez: "Nouvelles recherches sur Michel-Ange et son entourage," Bibliotheque de l' Ecole des Chartes. Vol. 77, pp. 448 ff. (1916), vol. 78, pp. 179 ff. (1917).

Romain Roland: Vie de Michel-Ange. 1913.

The Sonnets of Michael Angela Buonarroti, translated into English by J. A. Symonds. (My copy, Venice, has no date).

R. W. Emerson: Essay on Michaelangelo.

A. Duerer's Schriftliche Nachlass, ed. E. Heidrich. 1908.

M. Thausing: A. Duerer. 1876. (English translation from 1st ed. by F. A. Eaton. 1882).

Albrecht Duerers Niederlaendische Reise, hg. van J. Veth und S. Mueller. 2 vols. 1918.

A. B. Chamberlain: Hans Holbein the Younger. 2 vols. 1913.

A. Michel: Histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chretiens jusqu' a nos jours. 3 vols. 1905-8.

C. H. Moore: The Character of Renaissance Architecture. 1905.

R. Bloomfield: A History of French Architecture from the Reign of Charles VIII till the death of Mazarin. 2 vols. 1911.

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