Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism (Classic Reprint)

This book has another object in view than the bringing together of mere information regarding Lotto. It is an attempt to reconstruct Lotto scharacter, both as a man and as an artist Consequently only such data as served this purpose have been considered. No document that can throw light on the painters career, no authenticated work, at all accessible, has been neglected. Such documents, however, as would bring more increase to the pages of a book than to the intimacy with an artist have been left to the delectation of lovers of old paper, in and for itself. As to pictures known only by hearsay, they cannot and must not be considered in forming an estimate or in defining the quality of an artist, vicarious experience of the work of art being less than useless in criticism. Nor has it been thought needful to encumber the following pages with refutations of all the catalogue-makers whom it has pleased to attach Lotto sname to pictures. Such refutation might be made amusing, if not edifying reading, but could not add to our knowledge of the master.
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