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Maud Cruttwell (1859–1939) authored several foundational monographs on Italian Renaissance artists before writing guide books, one novel, and two biographies. Her monographs on Luca Signorelli, Andrea Mantegna, Luca and Andrea della Robbia, Antonio Pollaiuolo, and Donatello were important exemplars in the field, demonstrating Cruttwell’s ability to combine careful archival scholarship, the comparative attributional method of Morellian connoisseurship, and the concept of “artistic personality” developed by connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Having been introduced to Bernard and Mary Berenson by Vernon Lee, Cruttwell’s close acquaintance with the Berensons influenced her early publications, but when conflict arose with others over her adoption of the Berensonian method of connoisseurship, Cruttwell began writing less controversial and more profitable guidebooks to the galleries of Florence and Venice. Likely under the influence of Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, Cruttwell moved to...
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Cruttwell, Maud. 1899. Luca Signorelli. London: G. Bell and Sons.
———. 1901. Andrea Mantegna. London: G. Bell and Sons.
———. 1902. Luca and Andrea Della Robbia and their successors. London: J. M. Dent & Co.
———. 1904. Verrocchio. London: Duckworth and Co.
———. 1907a. Antonio Pollaiuolo. London: Duckworth and Co.
———. 1907b. A guide to the paintings in Florentine galleries; The Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia; A critical catalogue. London: J. M. Dent & Co.
———. 1908. A guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence; A critical catalogue. London: J. M. Dent &Co.
———. 1911. Donatello. London: Methuen & Co.
———. 1913. Fire and frost. London: John Lane.
———. 1927. Princess D’Ursins. London/Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.
———. 1930. Madame de Maintenon. London/Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.
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Johnston, T.L. (2020). Cruttwell, Maud [Alice Wilson]. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_220-1
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