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x of a subject which must always be of deep and absorbing interest.

The increased interest now taken in Italian art by travellers, creates a distinct demand for a book in which the results of these researches are brought together, and the student is supplied with a brief account of the lives and works of the chief Florentine painters.

Among the authorities whose names are given in the following list, my thanks are especially due to Mr. Berenson, while I am indebted to Mr. Roger Fry for many valuable suggestions on technical points, and to Signor Alinari and Signor Anderson for their kind permission to reproduce several of their excellent photographs of Florentine masterpieces.

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Storia della Pittura in Italia," per G. B. Cavalcaselle and J. A. Crowe (Lemonnier).

'Le Vite de' più Eccellenti Pittori," scritte da Giorgio Vasari, con nuove annotazioni e commenti di Gaetano Milanesi (Sansoni).

"Delle Notiziede' Professori del Disegno," di Filippo Baldinucci.

"Carteggio inedito d' Artisti dei Secoli xiv. xv. xvi." dal Dott. Giovanni Gaye.

"Der Cicerone. Eine Anleitung zum Genuss der Kunstwerke Italiens," von Jacob Burckhardt.

"Italian Painters," by Giovanni Morelli, translated by C. J. Ffoulkes. (Murray.)

"The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance," by Bernhard Berenson. Third edition. (Putnam, 1909.)