A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend I thank the Editor of the Burlington Magazine for the permission to republish the articles which make up this small book. They gave rise to certain misunderstandings which were probably due, in the first place, to the fact that they touch too rapidly upon too many things, and in the second place to a question of emphasis. I had hoped to help clear my meaning by adding three other essays, elaborating what I had to say about the religious painting of China and Japan, about imaginative design, and above all about the claims of illustration as a separate 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.