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36 WESTERN ART AND THE NEW ERA
With some, invention took the form of a new technique,
or the solving of the problem of light, while with others it
followed many lines; for the artists of those days were
more rounded in their lives than the average artist has
been since the introduction of machinery. Primarily the
Fig. 15. Giorgione. Portrait of a Knight of Malta
greatest inventor among the artists of the past was Leonardo
da Vinci. Unfortunately his experiments in color have
caused his pictures to suffer to such an extent that it is
impossible for us to receive but the faintest semblance of
how he expressed himself through color. This has placed
both Giorgione and Titian as the greater colorists in the
history of art, though contemporary critics of their day
With some, invention took the form of a new technique,
or the solving of the problem of light, while with others it
followed many lines; for the artists of those days were
more rounded in their lives than the average artist has
been since the introduction of machinery. Primarily the
Fig. 15. Giorgione. Portrait of a Knight of Malta
greatest inventor among the artists of the past was Leonardo
da Vinci. Unfortunately his experiments in color have
caused his pictures to suffer to such an extent that it is
impossible for us to receive but the faintest semblance of
how he expressed himself through color. This has placed
both Giorgione and Titian as the greater colorists in the
history of art, though contemporary critics of their day