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FROM BYZANTINE ART TO POST-IMPRESSIONISM 41
England. It is his great simplicity of line and flatness of
modeling which give him such a decided place in T
t t • r • 1 • /-i,. u /.x Hans Holbein
the chain of art, as is to be seen in (Fig. 19) 1497-1543
the ‘Portrait of a Woman.’ Two hundred years German
later this simplicity was once more taken up by Sch°o1
Goya, the Spaniard; next Ingres took it up, then Manet,
and now it has been carried to a still further simplicity by
Fig. 19. Holbein the Younger. Portrait of a Woman
Matisse; but Matisse has never achieved the technical
mastery of these other men. It is this lack of technical
mastery which causes many critics to hesitate in giving
him his full due.
England. It is his great simplicity of line and flatness of
modeling which give him such a decided place in T
t t • r • 1 • /-i,. u /.x Hans Holbein
the chain of art, as is to be seen in (Fig. 19) 1497-1543
the ‘Portrait of a Woman.’ Two hundred years German
later this simplicity was once more taken up by Sch°o1
Goya, the Spaniard; next Ingres took it up, then Manet,
and now it has been carried to a still further simplicity by
Fig. 19. Holbein the Younger. Portrait of a Woman
Matisse; but Matisse has never achieved the technical
mastery of these other men. It is this lack of technical
mastery which causes many critics to hesitate in giving
him his full due.