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Excerpt from Great Epochs in Art History This little book, though intended for all kindly readers who have been led to take a thoughtful interest in the subject, is more specifically addressed to students of the history and criticism of art. Criticism, pure and simple, should be based on science, or exact scientific knowledge, but I am of the opinion that the scientific method may be too rigidly employed, and that works of art ought to be studied not in an exclusively analytic way, as if they were dead, but as if they were living, in the spirit of love in which they were created, and that is the joyful and inspiring source of art. While ancient and modern fields have been entered, I have not been so eager to bring out new things as to bring out new beauties in old things that the world has consented to call beautiful, and that have won their claim to the studious attention of lovers of art. The first essay, on Italian Religious Painting, is limited mainly to the art of Northern Middle Italy of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the third essay, on French Gothic Architecture, I would acknowledge aid derived from such books as Viol-let-le-Duc's "Dictionnaire raissonnc de l'Architecture française," Louis Gonse's "L'Art gothique," and Charles loore's "Development of Gothic Architecture." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.