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It is hardly an accident that the period when these
ideas were so eagerly debated was also the period when
the history of art emancipated itself from antiquarianism,
biography, and aesthetics. Issues which had been taken
for granted so long suddenly looked problematic and
required reassessment. When Bernard Berenson wrote his
brilliant essay on the Florentine painters, which came out
in 1896, he formulated his aesthetic creed in terms of
Hildebrand’s analysis. With his gift for the pregnant
phrase, he summed up almost the whole of the sculptor’s
somewhat turgid book in the sentence “The painter can
accomplish his task only by giving tactile value to retinal
impressions.” For Berenson, Giotto’s or Pollaiuolo’s claim
on our attention is that they had done precisely this. . .