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Excerpt from Renaissance in Italy, the Fine Arts
In this part of my work I feel that I owe less to reading than to observation. I am not aware of having mentioned any important building, statue, or picture which I have not had the Opportunity of studying. What I have written in this volume about the monuments of Italian art has always been first noted face to face with the originals, and afterward corrected, modified, or confirmed in the course of subsequent journeys to Italy. I know that this method of composition, if it has the merit of freshness, entails some inequality of style and disproportion in the distribution of materials. In the final preparation of my work for press I have therefore endeavored, as far as possible, to compensate this disadvantage by ad hering to the main motive of my subject - the illustration of the Renaissance spirit as this was manifested in the Arts.
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