This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...that the present Italian painter is able to produce. Finally is reached the last room, the picture-gallery, but before you enter it, as you have not yet seen any pictures in Milan, I am going to ask you to sit down on one of the seats in an adjacent room, or just inside the picture-gallery, and read the few remarks ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...that the present Italian painter is able to produce. Finally is reached the last room, the picture-gallery, but before you enter it, as you have not yet seen any pictures in Milan, I am going to ask you to sit down on one of the seats in an adjacent room, or just inside the picture-gallery, and read the few remarks that I want to make about the Lombard school of paintings. Bear in mind, please, that it is only by reason of the exigencies of circumstances that you begin your study of Lombard art in this room. It is not at all a good place in which to begin, and if you take my advice you will retrace your steps down the gallery without entering the room at all, and begin your study in the Poldi-Pezzoli gallery or in the Brera. But if you are really in a hurry, and feel that you cannot afford the time to return to this gallery again, or do not want to spend another lira, now that you are in the gallery, then you must enter the room, but do, please, first read what I have to say as to the art of Milan and of the district around the city. CHAPTER V. MILANESE PAINTERS THE Lombard school of art really begins with Vincenzo Foppa, although it is possible that he had studied at Padua under Squarcione. At Padua is one of the only two pictures which it is absolutely certain Squarcione painted, and which marks the commencement of an era. Squarcione was born in 1394, and whence he obtained his inspiration we cannot tell. He stands out as one of those founders of a school, one of those great leaders, who were an originating force, a living inspiration, and from his influence came not only the school of Padua, but also indirectly that of Milan. Squarcione appears to have been a traveller, and to have journeyed through Italy and Greece, studying the methods and works of the...
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Add this copy of Cities of Northern Italy, Volume 1... to cart. $55.08, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
