Excerpt from The Connoisseur: Essays on the Romantic and Picturesque Associations of Art and Artists
Italian Renaissance," "Royal Patrons," and "A Patron of Later Days," are intended to give some account of the classes of men who have enabled artists to live and work. Those on "An Intriguing Sculptor" and "The Troubles of an Architect" sketch the vexations of the artistic life.
"Pliny and Horace Walpole" and "The Indispensable Vasari" are typical historians of the world"s masterpieces.
"The Story of the Gem" shows how an entire branch of art may come at last to be utterly neglected, while the chapters on "Jewels and Precious Stones" and "The Goldsmith and Silversmith" draw attention to two of the most attractive of the "minor arts."
Lastly, the sketches of "Art and War" and "Art and Religion" suggest some of the external influences which have affected artistic production.
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