Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 245
this par-ticular from the standpoint of a realistic nineteenth cen-tury painting. Many decorative considerations assertthemselves when pictures are painted on plaster walls,which do not hold for smaller canvas pictures executedin oil color. Details cannot be elaborated on such a sur-face and with… … Fig. 140.-Giotto. The Flight intoEgypt. Arena Chapel, Padua. ITALIAN GOTHIC PAINTING. 231 were the main thing and nature was only the means toan end. Due concessions must be also made to thegeneral attitude of medieval Christian art as determinedby tradition and historic conditions. The fourteenth…
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