Note 46 — Chapter V · DAWN OF THE GOLDEN AGE: BOTTICELLI AND LEONARDO DA VINCI
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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.