Mr. Bernhard Berenson has been, for a whole generation, an
inspiring guide to all serious students of Italian painting. His famous Essays on the painters of Venice, Florence, Central and North Italy, with lists of the works that he regarded as authentic, have been often reprinted. They are now collected, without the lists, in one delightful little volume, The Italian Painters of the Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 12s. 6d.), with some revisions and with sixteen photographs. Much has been, and is being, written on Italian art at its greatest, but Mr. Berenson's book, distilled in long years of study and reflection, gives the essence of the matter. Those who read it and apply its hints as they go round the galleries of Burlington House will learn more from it than from any other book on the enthralling subject.
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