The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 237
nders and not in Italy? Hereanother cause of decay intervenes, thelegitimate, but stupefying admirationevoked by the great masters of theRenaissance. It was held that theyhad said everything to perfection;artists studied the masterpieces of thepast rather than Nature, and in thisstudy acquired a… … FIG. 418.—ECCO HOMO, CUIDO BENE (Gallery, Bologna.) (Photo, by Brogi.) sixteenth and throughout the seven-teenth century, they took, sometimesas their only masters, dead inen,Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Cor- 218 ITALIAN DECADENCE AND SPANISH SCHOOL reggio, or more remote dead artists,the authors…
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