Identifier: cu31924014078004 (find matches)
Title: A short history of art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910 Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eal, the material undefined, the nude formsare beautifully modelled, and the shadows are produced bytones of colour. Giovanni was at first influenced by Mantegna, but changedthe latters severity of style into a nobler natural way of rep- 286 A SHORT HISTORY OF ART resenting the local types of men, women, and children,a little idealised but not so as to lessen their individuality.Later his style was affected by his great pupil Giorgione; thecolour becomes richer, the landscapes are more brilliant andlovely, and a more generous amplitude of feeling possessesthe whole composition. Cima da Conegliano(1460.?-1517?) and Carpaccio (1460?-1522?) are, next to the Bellinis, the most important mastersof the early Venetian school. The latter was the great narra-tive-painter of his time. His best-known works are scenesfrom the life of St. Ursula. In all the productions of theschool we see a lofty and beautiful ideal of humanity, notso immeasurably out of reach as the conceptions of theFlorentines.
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