Children of the old masters (Italian school)

PAGE INTRODUCTORY 1 THE CHILD OF EARLY ART 11 TUSCAN SCULPTURE AND ENAMEL 17 THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS—I. 26 THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS—II. 37 PORTRAITS 48 SIENA AND UMBRIA AND OUTLY...

In the ages that, since the Renascence, have been called dark, the scanty art knew but one Child, but this was virtually the first child in art—the first prevalent child. Whethe...

But there is another step to be taken from the noble presence of Donatello, the Della Robbias, Desiderio da Settignano, Pellegrini, Benedetto da Maiano, Jacopo della Quercia, an...

Young if not infantine angels are in the picture by Leonardo da Vinci and Verrocchio—a beautiful detail of which is detached here. The heads are lovely and noble, the nearer all...

Moreover, taking the suggestion of portraiture and its honest action, and looking through the years and centuries before Bronzino, we glean here and there a slight accessory fig...

The same Saint John, grown a man, preaches to a little boy, in the Siena Cathedral. Pinturicchio, repeating yet once more the ever-unintelligible failure of the fifteenth-centur...

But between Bellini’s date and Carpaccio’s comes that of Crivelli, a master of the period that was early for Venice, yet a contemporary of Mantegna at Mantua and of Verrocchio i...