Painting between Giotto and Masaccio existed in vain on the contrary, considerable progress was made in the direction of landscape, perspective and facial expression is true that, excepting the works masterpiece produced.
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. A vision of plein air, vague I must grant, seems to have hovered before him, and, feeling his powerlessness to cope with it in full effects of light such as he attempted in his earlier pictures, he deliberately chose the twilight hour, when, in Tuscany, on fine days, the trees stand out almost black against a sky of light opalescent grey
Furthermore, the stimulation of our tactile imagination awakens our consciousness of the importance of the tactile sense in our physical and mental functioning better provided
The proportions of this small book forbid me 12 to develop further a theme, the adequate treatment of which would require
Let us now turn back to Giotto fulfils the first condition of painting as an art, which condition, as we agreed, is somehow to stimulate our tactile imagination.
We shall understand this without difficulty if we cover with the same glance two pictures of nearly the same subject that hang side by side in the Florence Academy
To recognise these we have 14 had to make many times the effort that the actual objects would have required, and in consequence our feeling of capacity
