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Excerpt from Renaissance and Modern Art The first wish of the student, who has been introduced to a new and important field of study by means of a summary and closely condensed compendium, is to know of the books which may supplement and enlarge his field of view, which may supply him with a larger number of facts about it, and bring him nearer to the individual lives and historic details which the space available for a summary compendium is insufficient to include. Not the least important matter of this work will, therefore, be the hints here and there scattered through it as to such further source of information. The "Suggestions in Aid of Reading," which I have compiled for the special course in Art History of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, would furnish a number of additional references, among which historical works, as distinct from those specially devoted to art, have received considerable attention. The English author who has made a specialty of the historic Renaissance is Symonds. Jacob Burckhardt's "Civilization of the Renaissance," translated from the German by Middlemore, is a pithier, more philosophical, and much shorter work. I should not wish to urge its use to the exclusion of Symonds, but no serious student can afford to forego the knowledge of it. It may be said in general that the wider one's knowledge of history and literature, the more interesting does the art of the Renaissance become; and, conversely, that there is no better introduction to the study of modern history and modern literature at large than the study of this art. 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.