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How to Study Pictures by Means of a Series of Comparisons of Paintings and Painters From Cimabue to Monet
How to Study Pictures by Means of a Series of Comparisons of Paintings and Painters From Cimabue to Monet Author:Charles Henry Caffin Subtitle: With Historical and Biographical Summaries and Appreciations of the Painters' Motives and Methods General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: The Century Co. Subjects: Painting Art appreciation Art / General Art / Criticism Art / History / General Art / European Art / I... more »ndividual Artist Art / Techniques / Painting Art / Techniques / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III TOM MA SO MASACCIO ANDREA MANTEGNA 1401 (?)-142S (?) 1431-1506 Italian School of Florence Italian School of Padua SINCE the' death of Giotto nearly a hundred years have elapsed, during which his followers in Florence and certain painters in Siena, notably the brothers Lorenzetti, have been continuing the effort to emancipate painting from the flat formalism of Byzantine art. But, although they have learned something more about expressing the roundness of form, have studied more closely the action of light upon objects and the expression and character of faces, and have begun to acquire some insight into the principles of foreshortening and perspective, they are inferior to Giotto in originality of feeling and grandeur of design. He had been a solitary genius. However, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, there arose in Florence a new genius, who became to this century what Giotto had been to the fourteenth. At a bound he leaped above all competitors, set painting free from its shackles, and continued to be a stimulus to hosts of other painters, including Michelangelo and Raphael. This new genius was Masaccio; and he, after his short life of twenty-seven years, was followed by the PaduanMantegna; this man, too, a genius, whose influence was wide-sprea...« less