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Faculty of archeology, history and letters
DOI Artikel:Mann, Horace K.: The portraits of the popes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.70028#0216
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The British School at Rome.
however, an absolutely universal decline in every branch of art and
literature. Among the arts there was a great development of portraiture.
When Vasari, in his Life of Giotto, tells us that that artist introduced
‘ the practice of making good portraits of living persons, a thing which
Fig. 13.—Urban V.
[9201]
(From a drawing in the Dal Pozzo Collection at Windsor.
By permission of His Majesty the King.)
had not been in use for more than two hundred years,’ there may be
exaggeration, but with the impetus which Giotto admittedly gave to art
in general, he awoke a deepened interest in portrait painting. There
arose a general desire to see and to possess portraits of well-known
people, and so Petrarch tells us of one of his admirers at Bergamo who
The British School at Rome.
however, an absolutely universal decline in every branch of art and
literature. Among the arts there was a great development of portraiture.
When Vasari, in his Life of Giotto, tells us that that artist introduced
‘ the practice of making good portraits of living persons, a thing which
Fig. 13.—Urban V.
[9201]
(From a drawing in the Dal Pozzo Collection at Windsor.
By permission of His Majesty the King.)
had not been in use for more than two hundred years,’ there may be
exaggeration, but with the impetus which Giotto admittedly gave to art
in general, he awoke a deepened interest in portrait painting. There
arose a general desire to see and to possess portraits of well-known
people, and so Petrarch tells us of one of his admirers at Bergamo who