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Thereis little known about them except that they worked together in asimilar
manner.
He wasprobably the founder of the school in which Francesco Cossa (fl.
Giotto broke the immobilityof the Byzantine model by showing the draped figure
in action.
They did not cringe to it soservilely as before.
There was no chance
for painting to rise under the prevailingconditions.
; Ghirlandajo, frescos
Sistine Chapel Rome, S.
Art in all itsphases was not only an adornment but a
necessity of Christiancivilization.
Domenico Sienna; Duccio, panels Duomo and
Acad.
Their fancy ran tosweetness of face rather than to bodily vigor.
-1337),
was a great improver on all hispredecessors because he was a man of
extraordinary genius.
Itmust have had some, though the early painters, like
Ottaviano Nelli,do not show it. Nor was there so muchattempt to shake them off
as at Florence.
The spirit oflearning showed itself in the founding of schools
and universities. In the fifteenth century it was still dominant. He
was,however, a master-draughtsman, and a man of large conceptions andgreat
strength. Perugia; Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, many pictures Acad. Peters Rome,
frescos Vatican, pictures Berlin and Nat. 1455-1492), of Brescia,and afterward
at Milan, was probably the founder of this Milaneseschool. His drawing was
good, but his painting lacked force, and hewas too pallid in flesh
color.
Martino Maggiore, and many altar-pieces in Acad. The altar-pieces of the
Greek and Russian churches show the same influence even in modern work. In the
thirteenthcentury the light grew brighter, but the internal dissensions did
notcease.
With Constantine Christianity was recognized asthe national religion.
It affected French andGerman art, it ruled at the North, and in the East it
lives even tothis day. The painters were taking notes of natural
appearances.
His work strikes one aseccentric, and eccentricity was the strong
characteristic of the man.
But classicform was ever being encroached upon by
oriental richness of materialand color.
Marco Florence, Last Judgment Duomo,
Orvieto. There was no such thing then as artfor arts sake. , Scappi Portrait
Uffizi, Baptism Dresden.
He wasprobably the founder of the school in which
Francesco Cossa (fl.
Florence; Lorenzo di Credi, Nativity Acad.
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