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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otticelli became in the enda pious one, but in many houses he painted roundelswith his own hand, and of naked women plenty. It wasagainst the decay of the public spirit by paganism, and theloss of republicanism in Florence, that Savonarola fought 119 PAINTING THE GOLD- the tyrants in his own church, defied the very Pope, scornedthe princes of Florence, attacked works of art, and died atthe stake for it. The prophet of S. Marco may haveseen with narrow eyes when he misjudged the realsignificance of Art and of the Renaissance; but he madeno mistake when he attacked the debasing influences ofthe Renaissance, even whilst he missed its mighty impulses—for the Medici approved the debasing influences, andcame to tyranny thereby. SMITH-PAINTERSOFFLORENCE I20 XV PIERO Dl COSIMO1462 - 1521 FLORENTINE SCHOOLTHE DEATH OF PROCRIS(National Gallery)Cephalus kneels at the head of Procris, whom he has accidentally shot.Painted in tempera on poplar. 2 ft. i^ in. h. x 6 ft. w. (0*647 x 1-828). 1 I- /I
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i L... CHAPTER XV OF THE DEEPS OF POETRY THAT MAY BE WITHINTHE ROUGH OUTER MAN Working at the same time in Florence as Verrocchio was OF THEa painter, Cosimo Rosselli, now chiefly known to fame DEEPS OFas the master of the artists, Piero di Cosimo and Fra POETRYBartolommeo. But Cosimo Rosselli was an artist of finegifts, who was employed under Botticelli on work for the twfSistine Chapel, in which he painted several frescoes. Cosimo Rour^uRosselli (1439-1507) came of artist forefathers. OUTER PIERO DI COSIMO 1462 - 1521 Of about the same age as Filippino Lippi, Lorenzo diCredi, and Leonardo da Vinci, was Piero di Cosimo, whosepicturesque and tuneful name was a tribute to his master,Cosimo Rosselli. Piero di Cosimo was the son of Lorenzo,an auger-maker of Florence; at twenty (1482) he went withhis master, Cosimo Rosselli, to aid him in his work on thefrescoes of the Sistine Chapel. But though the direct pupilof Cosimo Rosselli, he became an eager student of the art ofAntonio Pollaiuolo

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