Excerpt from The Characteristics of Sienese Art Greatness and economical prosperity which has never been surpassed, and in which Siena attained to such a condition of civilization and culture that' it has giveni her a special character in History. But from this in: disputable truth it is arbitrary to draw, as has been done, the conclusion that previous to this period it is useless to investigate the origin and traces of Sienese Art, ' as the statement is also. Arbitrary that Siena later: manifested herself decidedly averse to that superb out burst of the Human Spirit, which we know as the Renaissance; and to the new forms of that Art which having their source from Italy were destined to flood the World. Sienese Artlhas a more ancient origin than the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.