Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 229
ying phase of gen-eral history. The Ital-ians were the earliestmoderns, the first toconsciously set up theideal of modern civil-ization and to con-sciously antagonize theculture and feudal in-stitutions of the Mid-dle Ages. Their preju-dice against Gothic cul-ture and Gothic art,which gave us… … Fig, 126.—Pulpit of the Pisa Bap-tistery. By Nicolo Pisano. CHAPTER XIII. ITALIAN GOTHIC PAINTING.* It is in the distinction between the wall surfaceswhich were preserved by Italian buildings and thoseof the north, which were distributed into windowopenings and buttresses, that we find a connection…
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