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Excerpt from The Study and Criticism of Italian Art Second Series
Had this abstract work been written, the question of Method would scarcely have passed unnoticed. A discussion might have arisen that could not but have had a happy in¿uence on our much abused studies. As it is, the facility in reproducing works of art has created a great demand for knowledge regarding them. The demand finds but few who are really competent to satisfy it; but it is too ignorant and therefore too indiscriminate to know what it wants, still less whether the information offered is probable or improbable, interesting or uninterest ing, the fruit of intelligent labour or of impudent quackery.
But as my interests have carried me away from questions of Method, I no longer entertain the hope of continuing the book begun eight years ago: so that I now print the fragment which was to have formed but a small part of it. It is the part, how ever, which might have proved of greatest interest, for although it was to have been, in some respects, the least important, it deals with the now popular, even fashionable, subject of Connoisseurship.
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