The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 264
de beyondthe beaten path which has been trodden for centuries is often evidence ofthe most courag-eous darinsr. The year 1240 witnessed the birth of Cimabue. As a young man, hebecame enamoured of art by watching the labours of the Greek painters whohad been summoned to Florence to decorate the… … r;. King Clovis. (Fragment of a Painting on Canvas at Kheiras. Fifteenth Century.) he soon became a master whose every thoug-ht was henceforth devoted to theemancipation of an art that he found condemned to a kind of immobility.Thanks to him, the expression of faces, which up to that time had been…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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