Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With an Index to their Works
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With an Index to their Works
                                            
                            By Bernard Berenson
                            
                                15 Nov, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Art history focuses on aesthetic works created by humans for their own sake over past eras, and is often presented as a chronology of the masterpieces that were created during each civilization. It is the narrative of high culture that is represented
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                                                Art history focuses on aesthetic works created by humans for their own sake over past eras, and is often presented as a chronology of the masterpieces that were created during each civilization. It is the narrative of high culture that is represented at one end by the Wonders of the World. However, at the other end, folk arts and crafts can also be integrated into art history. When art history addresses low culture, it examines visual culture or material culture, or contributes to fields relating to art history, such as anthropology or archaeology, where art objects may be referred to as archeological artifacts. Less