Section 4 Art
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 Völker. Band 4.[2] 1919.
S. Reinach: Apollo.[4] 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.[3] 1902.
B. Berenson: The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance.[2] 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. Müntz: 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’ avènement de Jules II à nos jours.[2] 1908.
M. Reymond: L’ Education de Léonard. 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 Sirén: 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. Müntz: 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. Bunnètt. 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,” Bibliothèque de l’ École des Chartes. Vol. 77, pp. 448 ff. (1916), vol. 78, pp. 179 ff. (1917).
Romain Roland: Vie de Michel-Ange.[4] 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. Dürer’s Schriftliche Nachlass, ed. E. Heidrich. 1908.
M. Thausing: A. Dürer.[2] 1876. (English translation from 1st ed. by F. A. Eaton. 1882).
Albrecht Dürers Niederländische Reise, hg. van J. Veth und S. Müller. 2 vols. 1918.
A. B. Chamberlain: Hans Holbein the Younger. 2 vols. 1913.
A. Michel: Histoire de l’art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu’ à 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.