Identifier: historyofpainti01macf (find matches)
Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hfulness, and handed it to Italy—a sublime heritagethat was to bring to full flower the sombre splendour ofTuscan art. Before his burly figure all insipidity fled; andin the presence of his majestic genius, at grips with therealities and intensities of life, fragile pietism and the narrowconvent ideals were swept away as though they departedinto nunneries. 80 IV PAOLO UCCELLO 1397 - ^A75 TUSCAN SCHOOL THE ROUT OF SAN ROMANO i (National Gallery) Niccolo da Tolentino, the leader of the Florentine forces, is representedon horseback directing the attack on the Sienese. He wears a rich damaskheaddress, his helmet being carried by his armour-bearer. These are theonly two persons whose heads are bare. The second and third of this series of battle pictures are in the UffiziGallery at Florence and in the Louvre. Painted in tempera on wood. 6 ft. h. x 10 ft. 5 in. w. (1*829 ^ 3i74) ^ It hat long ago been shown by Mr. H. P. Uurne tiiat this picture does notTffietiax. the Battle of Sant Egiaio.
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i « 11 CHAPTER IX WHICH IS CHIEFLY CONCERNED WITH PERSPECTIVE DOMENICO VENEZIANO 1400? - 1461 Masaccio, short as was his life, revealed his art to two WHICH ISpainters—whose names are linked together in a murder CHIEFLYinvented by the tongue of Vasari—Domenico Veneziano CON-and Andrea dal Castagno. ChRNhD Domenico di Bartolommeo, better known as Domenico ^^^^^^..^ oir 111 C T1 V 111Veneziano, the Venetian, born about 1400 and dying in 1461, had learnt his craft in Venice, where he had received the secret of painting in oils. Thence he went southwards over the mountains into Tuscany, and was working at Perugia in 1438, on the edge of forty, when Cosimo de* Medici called him to Florence. Here he at once came under the thrall of Masaccios Brancacci frescoes, which were a revelation to him, and caused a marked development in his artistry. Of his few known works, the most famous are the fresco of John the Baptist and St. Francis in S. Croce at Florence, a Madonna and Saints in the Uff

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