Title: Such a bad book!
Product review: Even with the updates, this remains a monument to mis-information. In 1938 much of what Barton wrote was widely believed to be true, but in the last 70 years so much research has been done that no one should rely on Barton's work for anything! I know that theatre programs still use this text (I had it in 1969 at the University of Oklahoma) but even people at community theatres and high school theatre programs can do better in an hour or two of looking at period paintings online at the Web Gallery of Art or ArtCyclopedia than they ever can get by using Barton's work.
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