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
MoreUccello 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
MoreAccordingly 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
MoreIn the design process, my gut instinct is my best critic. I just wished I would always listen to it!Bryan Tamayo
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 sentiment
MoreTheir ideal was to note it down with absolute correctness from a given point of view; their subject almost invariably the Valdarno achievement of this Tuscan paradise
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Verrocchio was, among Florentines at least, 60 the first to feel that a faithful reproduction of the contours is not landscape, that the painting of nature is an art distinct from the painting of the figure
He scarcely knew where the difference lay, but felt that light and atmosphere play an entirely different part in each, and that in landscape these have at least as much importance as tactile values
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MoreVerrocchio and Florentines at least the first to feel that a faithful reproduction of the contours is not landscape, that the painting of nature is an art distinct
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