THE CICERONE: An Art Guide to Painting in Italy. For the Use of Travellers and Students (English Edition)

From the Preface: this book „is intended as a practical guide to the traveller and lover of art in studying on the spot the works of painting, both native and foreign, existing in Italy. It contains an historical account, up to the close of the seventeenth century, of the rise and course of the various schools represented in Italy, pointing out their various characteristics, and especially describing their founders and principal masters, and enumerating the most remarkable
and characteristic works of each of them.”