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Title: A short history of art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910 Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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a $ ta m < Hi THE EARLY RENAISSANCE IN ITALY 275 ence of both artists. Lorenzo was a master of perspective.He had great perseverance, a quality that is often an excel-lent substitute for genius; and he accomplished much excellentwork. Signorelli received an education from the great Umbrianmaster Piero della Francesca (1420-1492), but his worksshow the influence of the Florentine school. He had a pas-sion for the nude, which governed his choice of subjects, andmarked him in a certain sense as the forerunner of MichaelAngelo. While he equals Ghirlandajo in his conception of ascene, he shows less discrimination in his selection of individ-ual forms, and inclines a little to coarseness. He was par-tial to action of a violent character and showed remarkableskill in foreshortening and draughtsmanship; but apt to behot and coarse in colour. Truth, say Crowe and Cavalcaselle, was what Signo-relli early strove to attain; but the truth in art, as in the dailyintercourse of men, frequently an

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