Note 70 — Chapter VII · VENETIAN PAINTING BEFORE TITIAN

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.