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MASACCIO.
It is easily conceivable that, during the forty
years which Lorenzo Ghiberti devoted to his great
work, and others on which he was employed at in-
tervals, the assistance he required in completing his
own designs, in drawing, modelling, casting, polish-
ing, should have formed round him a school of
young artists who worked and studied under his eye.
The kind of work on which they were employed
gave these young men great superiority in the
knowledge of the human form, and in effects of re-
lief, light and shade, &c. The application of the
sciences of anatomy, mathematics, and geometry to
the arts of design began to be more fully under-
stood. This early school of painters was favourably
distinguished above the later schools of Italy by a
generous feeling of mutual aid, emulation, and ad-
miration among the youthful students, far removed
from the detestable jealousies, the stabbings, poison-
mgs, and conspiracies, which we read of in the
seventeenth century. Among those who frequented
the atelier of Lorenzo were Paolo Uccello, the first
who applied geometry to the study of perspective ;
he attached himself to this pursuit -with such un-
wearied assiduity, that it had nearly turned his
MASACCIO.
It is easily conceivable that, during the forty
years which Lorenzo Ghiberti devoted to his great
work, and others on which he was employed at in-
tervals, the assistance he required in completing his
own designs, in drawing, modelling, casting, polish-
ing, should have formed round him a school of
young artists who worked and studied under his eye.
The kind of work on which they were employed
gave these young men great superiority in the
knowledge of the human form, and in effects of re-
lief, light and shade, &c. The application of the
sciences of anatomy, mathematics, and geometry to
the arts of design began to be more fully under-
stood. This early school of painters was favourably
distinguished above the later schools of Italy by a
generous feeling of mutual aid, emulation, and ad-
miration among the youthful students, far removed
from the detestable jealousies, the stabbings, poison-
mgs, and conspiracies, which we read of in the
seventeenth century. Among those who frequented
the atelier of Lorenzo were Paolo Uccello, the first
who applied geometry to the study of perspective ;
he attached himself to this pursuit -with such un-
wearied assiduity, that it had nearly turned his