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Title: A history of painting
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: London and Edinburgh : T.C. and E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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OF PAINTING a forerunner to the greater genius of Florence that came WHICH ISafter him, than a great achiever himself; though it must be CHIEFLYremembered that Franceschi was the first painter to display CON-a calculated skill in the painting of objects seen in the value WTTRcreated by their distance in atmosphere—what is called cpprxTVFtone-values—that is to say, the subtle effect produced byperspective of colour in relation to its distance from theeye. Piero dei Franceschi died blind on the i 2th of October1492, 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 of Castagno and Franceschi.Alongside of this was the art o

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