The Tuscan & Venetian artists, their thought & work (1904)
Rea, Hope 1860- · London, J. M. Dent · leaf 81
ublic, the ideal form, kept beautiful byGreek gymnastic, was to be unclothed; and so theyfound in all the highest Greek art the worthiness andbeauty of the human form realised. The face may beconventionalised, and generally is—often into a sweetnothing—but on the body the Greek artist expended… … DREAMLAND AND REALITY 51 One of the first who began to work along these newlines was Luca Signorelli; and as Fra Angelico may beconsidered the idealist par excellence, so may Luca be placedamong the realists. Signorelli was born in 1441, andthus just overlapped Fra Angelicos last years. Heshowed…
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