THE lists have been thoroughly revised, and
some of them considerably increased. Botti-
cini, Pier Francesco Fiorentino, and Amico di
Sandro have been added, partly for the intrin-
sic value of their work, and partly because so
many of their pictures are exposed to public
admiration under greater names. Botticini
sounds too much like Botticelli not to have
been confounded with him, and Pier Francesco
has similarly been confused with Piero della
Francesca. Thus, Botticini's famous "Assump-
tion," painted for Matteo Palmieri, and now in
the National Gallery, already passed in Vasari's
time for a Botticelli, and the attribution at
Karlsruhe of the quaint and winning "Nativity"
to the sublime, unyielding Piero della Francesca
is surely nothing more than the echo of the
real author's name.

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