Download or read book Famous Painters and Paintings (Classic Reprint) written by Julia A. Shedd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Famous Painters and Paintings HE present edition has been carefully revised, and somewhat enlarged by additions to the text. The catalogue of paintings has been greatly extended, and ren dered more complete. It is not, of course, exhaustive, nor can it be supposed to record all the masterpieces of Re naissance painting, except in regard to those artists who produced few pictures, or of whose works but few still exist. The selections have been made with the assist ance of the best authorities in the history of art, and years of earnest personal study. 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.