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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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that had been granted to them, and whichthey knew full well had been employed in all their power,they created a larger art and a fuller realm for that art.They took up art where it had left off; and their blood ting-ling to the new adventure of life that was abroad overthe world, which the old instrument and the old Italywere too feeble to utter, they invented an art that should bedeep enough to sound the mightier resonances and giveforth the fuller life. The air was athrob with the song ofthe sea-dogs who were putting forth to the discovery ofnew worlds. And the men who created this art were ofthe same vigorous fibre. The sober ideals of Beauty thatcame down from antiquity were waste-paper to them.Their eyes were on the new romances. Michelangelo Amerighi or Merigi was the son of amason of Caravaggio, in the Milanese country of Lombardy,where he was born in 1569 ; hence the name by which he 54 V CARAVAGGIO1569 - 1609 SCHOOL OF THE TENEBROSI OR NATURALISTS DEATH OF THE VIRGIN (Louvre)
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OF PAINTING is known to fame, and will one day be still better known. WHEREINHe seems to have been self-taught, and for about five years A NEWhe is found painting portraits at Milan. Thence he betook ANDhimself to Venice, where he worked awhile, thence on to VASTERRome. REVELA- Arrived in Rome in a pitiful state of poverty, and J^V™unable to buy the materials to paint a picture, he entered tNTO the service of the artist Cavaliere Cesare dArpino. The ITALY NOTCavaliere Cesare dArpino employed the young fellow to WITHOUTpaint the fruit and flowers and ornaments in his pictures. VIOLENCEIt is difficult to imagine the restive and violent assistantat the pretty business. But at last Caravaggio painted hiscelebrated II Giuoco di Garte^ or The Cardplayers, which wasbought by the Cardinal del Monte, who probably procuredhim the painting of the several works in oils at the Con-tarelli chapel of the church of San Luigi de Francesi. Itwas his first altarpiece for this chapel, the St. Matthewwr

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