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FILIPPO LIPPI,
Born 1400, died 14G9 ;
AND
ANGELICO DA FIESOLE,
Born 1387, died 1455.
Contemporary with Masaccio lived two painters,
both gifted with surpassing genius, both of a re-
ligious order, being professed monks ; in all other
respects the very antipodes of each other ; and we
find the very opposite impulses given by these re-
markable men prevailing through the rest of the
century at Florence and elsewhere. From this
period we date the great schism in modern art,
though the seeds of this diversity of feeling and
purpose were sown in the preceding century. We
now find, on the one side, a race of painters who
cultivated with astonishing success all the mental
and mechanical aids that could be brought to bear
on their profession ; profoundly versed in the know-
ledge of the human form, and intent on studying
and imitating the various effects of nature in colour
and in light and shade, without any other aspiration
than the representation of beauty for its own sake,
and the pleasure and the triumph of difficulties
FILIPPO LIPPI,
Born 1400, died 14G9 ;
AND
ANGELICO DA FIESOLE,
Born 1387, died 1455.
Contemporary with Masaccio lived two painters,
both gifted with surpassing genius, both of a re-
ligious order, being professed monks ; in all other
respects the very antipodes of each other ; and we
find the very opposite impulses given by these re-
markable men prevailing through the rest of the
century at Florence and elsewhere. From this
period we date the great schism in modern art,
though the seeds of this diversity of feeling and
purpose were sown in the preceding century. We
now find, on the one side, a race of painters who
cultivated with astonishing success all the mental
and mechanical aids that could be brought to bear
on their profession ; profoundly versed in the know-
ledge of the human form, and intent on studying
and imitating the various effects of nature in colour
and in light and shade, without any other aspiration
than the representation of beauty for its own sake,
and the pleasure and the triumph of difficulties