Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1Mitchell, Arthur
Philosophy
Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1
Mitchell, Arthur
Humanities
IX. _Old Pictures in Florence._
1. Michael Angelo (1475-1564). A Florentine master in
painting, sculpture, and architecture. No other
single person ever so dominated art as he, with his
Italian “terribilita”, or stormy energy of
conception, and his great dramatic power.
2. Raphael (1483-1520). A master of combined
draughtsmanship, coloring, and graceful
composition; popular and unexcelled in versatility.
3. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). The earliest of the
great masters of the High Renaissance, and the
first to completely master anatomy and technique.
4. Cavaliere Dello (c. 1404-c. 1464). An unimportant
Florentine painter of frescoes.
5. Stefano (1324?-1357?). Called the “Ape of Nature”
because he followed her closely in an age of
unrealistic painting.
6. Cimabue (1240-c. 1302). The first painter of
importance in the revival of that art, the one who
formed its first principles, though he owed
something to the Pisan sculptors.
7. Ghirlandajo (1449-1494). Good in his general
attainment but lacking in originality, and
remembered for one famous pupil--Michael Angelo.
8. Sandro (Botticelli) (1444-1510). A Florentine
painter, imbued with a strain of fantasy,
mysticism, and allegory.
9. Lippino (1460-1505). The son of Fra Lippo Lippi, a
painter of considerable skill, the first to
introduce detail in antique costumes.
10. Fra Angelico (1387-1455). A holy, self-denying
painter of faces that showed a “sexless
religiosity.”
11. Lorenzo Monaco (1370-1425). A Florentine monk and
painter of much religious sentiment.
12. Pollajolo (1429-1498). An important painter whose
works show brutality, but who was a close student
of muscular anatomy.
13. Baldovinetti (1427-1499). A Florentine; one of a
group of scientific realists and naturalists.
14. Margheritone (c. 1236-1289). An early Tuscan
painter whose work shows the stiffness and crude
color of the Byzantine artists.
15. Carlo Dolci (1616-1686). An unimportant Florentine
painter of careful workmanship and religious
sentimentality.
16. Giotto (1267?-1337). A painter and architect, the
real humanizer of painting.
17. Andrea Orgagna (1308-1368). A Florentine painter
and artist in other lines as well.
18. Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300-1366). Painter and architect.
X. _In Three Days._
1. General reference to early art.
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