The Old and the New Renaissance: A Group of Studies in Art and Letters (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Old and the New Renaissance: A Group of Studies in Art and LettersThe writer of these papers sends them forth well aware of their limitations. Written for the most part as lectures, they have the inherent faults of such work - faults that all revision could not have wholly eradicated had such revi sion, indeed, been deemed advisable. Nor does he claim any particular originality in material or method of treatment; to do so in the face of the work of more competent and scholarly writers, to whom he owes a debt quite beyond repay ment, would be manifest supererogation. He will have sufiiciently attained his object, how ever, if he has put in a more or less popular and accessible form facts about certain men and movements that have had transcendent influence upon the art and culture of the modern times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.