Visual Arts · Art History: Renaissance to Nineteenth Century
A topic within Art History: Renaissance to Nineteenth Century, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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Bernard Berenson
Argues Florentine painting's central achievement is "tactile values" — the illusion of solid, touchable form on a flat surface — and ranks painters by how fully they deliver that illusion rather than by subject or finish.
link failing as of 17 Sept 2026Herbert P. Horne
Reconstructs Botticelli's career from documentary evidence rather than legend, arguing his work belongs to the workaday routines of a Florentine painter's workshop, not to Romantic myths of the misunderstood genius.
link checked 17 Sept 2026