Excerpt from Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Their Works: A Handbook
For the convenience of my readers it seems best to explain more fully than has been done the plan of this book. In writing it I had two objects constantly in mind, namely, that it must be kept within a portable size and a moderate cost. In order to do this, all living artists were excluded, and those not living spoken of with as much conciseness as possible, while few were mentioned whose works do not come in the way of most travellers. This last rule when applied to the artists of antiquity takes in a very small number. Of antique paintings we have almost nothing remaining, and of antique sculptures but a small number of well attested originals and some copies. My limits have been exceeded in this respect by adding a few artists of antiquity of whom much is written and said, but whose works are not extant. It is a pleasure to elaborate, to dwell with minuteness upon every known circumstance in the lives of those who have left us works of Art, and this has often been done.
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