Giotto’s paintings on the contrary, have not only as much power of appealing to the tactile imagination as is possessed by the objects represented
We whose current knowledge of anatomy is greater, who expect more articulation and suppleness in the human figure, who, in short, see much less
At the risk of seeming to wander off into the boundless domain of æsthetics, we must stop at this point for a moment to make sure that we are of one mind regarding
Orcagna is difficult to speak as only a single fairly intact painting remains the altar-piece in Maria Novella
Different as these two were from each other, they have this much in common, that in their works which remain to us, dating, it is true, from their years of maturity, there is no touch of mediæval sentiment
Artists belonged entirely to new era and stand at beginning of Renaissance as two tendencies which were to prevail in Florence throughout the whole of the fifteenth century, partly supplementing
Uccello had a sense of tactile values and a feeling for colour, but in so far as he used these gifts at all, it was to illustrate scientific problems mere occasion for solving problem
Accordingly he composed pictures in which he contrived to get as many lines as possible leading the eye inward. Prostrate horses, dead or dying cavaliers, broken lances, ploughed fields
Noahs are used scarcely an attempt at disguise to serve his scheme of mathematically converging lines. In his zeal he forgot local colour he loved to paint his horses green or pink
Noahs are used scarcely an attempt at disguise to serve his scheme of mathematically converging lines. In his zeal he forgot local colour he loved to paint his horses green or pink
