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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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at career, destined alsoto come into his own again through a renewed vogue bythe strange means of an affected aesthetic cult that passedover England like a plague of culture in the late eighteen-hundreds. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni dei Filipepi, betteiknown and world-famous as Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510), is so individual, so original in his art, master of sofascinating and personal a style, that he stands out ascreating almost a new development of painting—and, asa matter of fact, he and his contemporaries do reveal anatmosphere in their art which was attune to new andmarked developments throughout Italian life in the last halfof the fourteen-hundreds. 98 XI SANDRO BOTTICELLI1444 - 1510 FLORENTINE SCHOOL MARS AND VENUS (National Gallery) The goddess, clothed in white and gold, is awake ; Mars lies asleep.Four infant satyrs are playing about him ; one of them tries to rouse himby blowing on a shell. Painted in tempera on wood. 2 ft. 3J in. h. x 5 tt. 8 in. w.(©•698 X 1727).
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PAINTING We have seen that Florentine art from the beginning of WHEREIN the century had received two new impulses that had rapidly WE ARE ureed it forward to fresh achievement. On the one hand, INTRO- Masaccio, powerfully impressed by the sculptor Donatello, ^^^^^ ^^ . . XFTP POFTT had raised a school of intensely realistic painting, rugged xwf and forthright, that had brought forth Domenico Veneziano, cpDyvrp, Andrea dal Castagno, Uccello, Dei Franceschi; on the other xiME OF hand, the Giottesques had bred the tender and beauty-seeking XHE RE- aims of Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and Benozzo NAISSANCE Gozzoli. The latter half of the century saw the rise of the goldsmith-painters, of whom the brothers Pollaiuoli were steeped in the severer and dramatic tradition of the realists born out of the art of Donatello and Masaccio. The beauty-seeking and religiously tender side of Florentine art was also to create a school akin to it in these latter fourteen-hundreds, and out of the soul

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