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After Giovanni Bellini comes Carpaccio (?
Laterhe followed Giorgione and
Carpaccio. Itmust have had some, though the early painters, like Ottaviano
Nelli,do not show it. From working in theUmbrian country his influence upon his
fellow-Umbrians was large.
Hewas behind Giotto and Lorenzetti in power and in
imagination, andbehind Orcagna as a painter.
Religion, classicism,and nature
all met in his work, but the mingling was not perfect.
The worldly spirit of
the Venetian people brought about a worldly andluxurious art. It was not a
revolt, a reaction, or a starting out on a newpath.
After Giovanni Bellini
comes Carpaccio (?
Religion was not violently embraced as in theMiddle Ages,
but there was no revolt. Not to attaingreat learning, but to revel in great
splendor, seems to have beentheir aim.
He never, however, outgrew Gothic
methods andreally belongs in the fourteenth century.
FLORENTINE SCHOOL: The
Florentines were draughtsmen more thancolorists. Anastasia Verona; Liberale da
Verona, miniatures Duomo Sienna, St.
His early work was Flemish in character,
and was very accurateand minute. Giovanni e Paolo Venice; Carpaccio,
Presentation and Ursula pictures Acad. The Early Renaissance was the promise
ofgreat things; the High Renaissance was the fulfilment.
After Giovanni Bellini
comes Carpaccio (?
Venice, Louvre, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and other
galleries; Catena, Altar-pieces S. Venice, Louvre, Berlin, Dresden, Munich,
Vienna, and other galleries; Catena, Altar-pieces S.
Novella, equestrian
portrait Duomo Florence, battle-pieces in Louvre and Nat. Popery,
Paganism,Despotism, all the convulsions of Renaissance life threatened
butharmed her not. -1523), a painter inboth oil and fresco of much severity and
at times grandeur of style. UMBRIANS--Ottaviano Nelli, altar-piece
S.
Hiscounter-influence upon Venetian portraiture has never been quitejustly
estimated. Free and independent, her kingdom was the sea, and herlivelihood
commerce, not agriculture. His drawing was good, but his painting lacked force,
and hewas too pallid in flesh color.
Signorelli was Umbrian born, likePiero,
but there was not much of the Umbrian sentiment about him. Then followed
theinvention of printing and the age of discovery on land and sea. Venetian art
practically dates from the Bellinis. The knowledge of the ancient world lay
buried under theruins of Rome. Domenico Bologna, easel pictures in Pitti,
Uffizi, Nat.
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