Meanwhile we must continue our study of the naturalists, but now of the second generation. Their number and importance is not alone due to the fact that art education toward the beginning of this epoch was mainly naturalistic, but also to the real needs of a rapidly advancing craft
Artists belonged entirely to new era and stand at beginning of Renaissance as two tendencies to prevail in Florence throughout the fifteenth century
Uccello had sense of tactile values and feeling for colour but in so far it was to illustrate scientific problems mere occasion for solving problem
Even Masaccio was driven to exhibit his mere skill, the much admired and by itself wonderfully realised figure of a naked man trembling with cold
Accordingly he composed pictures in which he contrived to get as many lines as possible leading the eye inward, prostrate horses, dead or dying cavaliers
Meanwhile we must continue our study of the naturalists, but now of the second generation Their number and importance is not alone due to the fact that art education toward the beginning of this epoch was mainly naturalistic, but also to the real needs of a rapidly advancing craft at Florence these inverted notions about art were especially prevalent
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Meanwhile we must continue our study of the naturalists, but now of the second generation. Their number and importance is not alone due to the fact that art education toward the beginning of this epoch was mainly naturalistic, but also to the real needs of a rapidly advancing craft
Artists belonged entirely to new era and stand at beginning of Renaissance as two tendencies in Florence throughout the fifteenth century
Uccello had a sense of tactile values and a feeling for colour, but in so far as he used these gifts at all, it was to illustrate scientific
Accordingly he composed pictures in which he contrived to get as many lines as possible leading the eye inward prostrate horses dead or dying
Conscious effort is given to means of rendering that he talks to others and because his triumphs here are hard earned
There is no professions scientific in stricter sense of word and as art of some form was the pursuit of a considerable proportion of male inhabitants of Florence, it happened inevitably that many natural capacities of a Galileo was in early boyhood apprenticed as an artist
The greater the painter, the less likely he is to be aware of aught else in his art than problems of rendering but all the while he is communicating what the force of his genius makes him feel without his striving for it, almost without his being aware of it
Masaccio keeps us on a high plane of reality and significance. In later painting we shall easily find greater science, greater craft, and greater perfection of detail, but greater reality, greater significance, I venture to say, never
From the brief account just given of the four dominant personalities in Florentine painting it results that the leanings of the school during this interval were not artistic alone
The extent however that took sides and were conscious of a distinct purpose these also sided with Uccello and not with Filippo. It may be agreed therefore, the main current of Florentine
Masaccio was naturalistic, and that consequently the impact given to the younger painters who during this period were starting, was mainly toward naturalism. Later, in studying Botticelli
Giotto’s paintings on the contrary, have not only as much power of appealing to the tactile imagination as is possessed by the objects represented human figures in particular but actually more, with the necessary result
