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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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ry, and a very Florentine of Tuscans. Though littleof his work is known to-day, he wrought much, rangingover Italy to do the will of his patrons. The frescoes thathe painted of the Legends of the Cross stand to-day where hewrought them in the Church of San Francesco at Arezzo.The scientific bent of his mind—even as a boy he was amathematician—shows itself in close observation, a grip ofanatomy, and a skill in perspective; indeed, his Treatise onPerspective^ dedicated to the Duke Guidobaldo of Urbino,was a guide to the painters of his age. But he was rather 84 PIERO DEI FRANCESCHI1415? - 1492 UMBRIAN SCHOOL «THE NATIVITY (National Gallery) The Infant Christ lies on the ground on the corner of the Virginsmantle ; she kneels beside him in adoration. To the right St. Joseph isseen sitting on the pack saddle of the ass j near him are two shepherds.In the distance a view of a hilly landscape and the towers of the city ofArezzo. Painted on wood. 4 ft. 4^ in. h. x 4 ft. w. (i333 x i2i9).
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OF PAINTING a forerunner to the greater genius of Florence that came WHICH IS after him, than a great achiever himself; though it must be CHIEFLY remembered that Franceschi was the first painter to display CON- a calculated skill in the painting: of objects seen in the value ^^^^^L) . A \ .u ■ A . - . u u . - u A WITH PER- created by their distance in atmosphere—what is called npt-pT^xTTT- tone-values—that is to say, the subtle effect produced by perspective of colour in relation to its distance from the eye. Piero dei Franceschi died blind on the 12th of October 1492, and was buried in the cathedral of his native town. 85 CHAPTER X WHEREIN WE ARE INTRODUCED TO A FRIARWITH A ROVING EYE THE PAINTERS OF CENTRAL ITALY It is now necessary to call attention to the fact that therewere two currents of Florentine art flowing side by side.We have seen the sombre realistic art, so typical of hergenius, arising in the practice of Giotto, create the genius ofMasaccio, and flow in the blood

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