Ancient and Modern Art, Historical and Critical

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: His great work, the Triumph of Julins Caesar, is at Hampton Court: ?Perugino, the first distinguished painter of the Roman school, and immortalised as the master of Raffael. His scholar, Pinturicchio, assisted in the great works of fresco in the sacristy of Sienna, along with his fellow pupil RafFael. Lnca...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: His great work, the Triumph of Julins Caesar, is at Hampton Court: ?Perugino, the first distinguished painter of the Roman school, and immortalised as the master of Raffael. His scholar, Pinturicchio, assisted in the great works of fresco in the sacristy of Sienna, along with his fellow pupil RafFael. Lnca Signorelli, the pupil of Pietro della Francesca, having seen the works of Perugino, adopted and even surpassed his style. His principal works were the frescos in the Sistine chapel, and his Last Judgment in the duomo of Orvieto: ?the two Bellini and Giorgione, the two former the most distinguished of the first epoch of the Venetian school, the latter, if not the master of Titian, at least the artist whose style he adopted: ?lastly, Leonardo da Vinci, the harbinger of the great epoch of Italian art. Sculpture, which had taken precedence of painting, continued to ad- ranee. At the same time was awakened a taste for the more elevated style of architecture by the erection over all Italy of churches, palaces, and other public structures. THB CINQUE CENTO.?THB ITALIAN SCHOOLS.? THE FLORENTINE. The glorious epoch of the Cinque Cento was ushered in by Leonardo da Vinci and Michel Angelo Buonarotti of the Florentine school, Raffael of the Roman, Corregio of the Lombard, Giorgione and Titian of the Venetian. Great artists, it has been observed, like great poets, generally appear in clusters. Within the brief span of human life, Phidias and his illustrious contemporaries carried art in all its branches to the highest perfection. So it was with Italian art; its meteor-like blaze and obscuration occupying little more than half a century. Michel Angelo survived it; Titian, who was born in 1477, and died in 1576, witnessed both its rise and fall. Da Vinci, Michel Angelo, and Raffael, m..