Volume 24, Number 19 · November 24, 1977
Stories of Art
By Kenneth Clark
BOOKS BY ERNST GOMBRICH DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Norm and Form: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance I
Phaidon, $5.95 (paper)
Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance II
Phaidon, $7.95 (paper)
The Heritage of Apelles: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance
Cornell University Press, $22.50
From about 1864, the year of the publication of Crowe and Cavaleaselle's New History of Italian Painting, the study of Italian art turned from the imaginative interpretations of Ruskin to the task of amassing information. Ruskin foresaw the change and recommended Crowe and Cavaleaselle as 'a book which they have called A History of Painting in Italy, but which is in fact only a dictionary of details relating to that history.' In the 1870s, writers on art, from Morelli downward, set out to discover who painted what pictures, the occupation to which they gave the rather pretentious title of 'the science of connoisseurship.'
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