Documents Mostly New Relating to Florentine Painters and Sculptors of the Fifteenth Century

ABOUT ten years ago I decided to copy and publish the Tax Declarations (Portate al Catasto) of all the important artists of the Quattrocento which had not already been printed. Those of Botticelli have been published by the late Herbert Home, those of Desiderio by Professor Kennedy, and those of Donatello and Michelozzo by me. 1 But I have been amazed to find that virtually no effort has been made (even by Italians) to publish the Portate included in this article. 2 Recently, during a stay in Italy of several months, I took up the quest interrupted by the war and copied all the important Portate of twenty artists, which now, so far as I know, appear in print for the first time.