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A history of Italian painting

Note 45 — Chapter IV · FRA FILIPPO LIPPI AND THE NEW NARRATIVE STYLE

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480Domenico 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.

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