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Art
November 23, 1918 issue

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The article presents an overview of the book "Essays in the Study of Sienese Painting," by Bernard Berenson. Berenson confides how much "the ardor of mere discovery" has meant to him in the pursuit of his studies, even when the pictures discovered were like "the standardized products of a mint rather than the spontaneous creations of a changeful human spirit." His new volume is an excellent example of his methods and results. In one chapter we find him explaining as reasonable his mistaken attribution twenty years ago of the Marriage Salver now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to Matteo di Giovanni, and showing why it is impossible not to resent its mistaken attribution to-day, by somebody else, to Boccatis of Camerino.

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ESSAYS in the Study of Sienese Painting (Book); PAINTING; ART; CREATIVE ability; CAMERINO (Italy); ITALY
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