Excerpt from The Study and Criticism: Italian Art
The papers republished in this volume have appeared at various times during the last ten years. Some of them, like those, for instance, on Correggio, were written two or three years before they were printed. These particularly I cannot present in the more pretentious form of a book without a word of apology.
Few will be more convinced of their crudity and their juvenility than I am. Yet they show signs of striving towards a critical method. In the first it is crassly Morellian, redeemed only, for me at least, by a touch of glamour, of the innocent illusion which in another form makes so many simple-minded people who have failed to find an aesthetic gospel in Ruskin, imagine a vain thing, and seek for it in the sterile prosings of the so-called connoisseurs. I see now how fruitless an interest is the history of art, and how worthless an undertaking is that of determining who painted, or carved, or built whatsoever it be. I see now how valueless all such matters are in the life of the spirit.
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