Works
- Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (1894)
- Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism (1895)
- Florentine Painters of the Renaissance (1896)
- Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance (1897)
- The Sense of Quality: Study and Criticism of Italian Art (1901; second series, 1902)
- The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (1903), his masterpiece
- North Italian Painters of the Renaissance (1907)
- A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend (1910)
- Venetian Painting in America: The Fifteenth Century (New York, 1916)
- Essays in the Study of Sienese Painting (New York, 1918)
- Aesthetics, ethics and history in the arts of visual representation (Estetica, Etica e Storia nelle Arti della Rappresentazione Visiva) (1948)
- The Italian Painters Of The Renaissance (1952)
- Rumor and Reflection (New York, 1952)
- Caravaggio: his incongruity and his fame (1953)
- Seeing and Knowing New York Graphic Society, Ltd., (1953)
- The Passionate Sightseer (New York, 1960)
- Sunset and Twilight (New York, 1963)
Most of his books were published in the United States and went through many editions.
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