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Hand-Book of Painting. the Italian Schools
HandBook of Painting the Italian Schools Author:Franz Kugler General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Murray Subjects: Painting Painting, Italian Art / General Art / History / General Art / European Art / History / Renaissance Art / Individual Artist Art / Techniques / Painting Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the orig... more »inal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PAKT II. THE BYZANTINE STYLE. The commencement of the Byzantine school is generally placed at an earlier period than that of the fifth century which we here assume. The reasons which lead us to differ in this respect have been already alluded to. Up to the beginning of the seventh century art appears to us, as far as Koman civilization still existed, to be essentially one and the same in the east and the west, and therefore entitled to no other name than that of late Roman or early Christian. If, as early as the fifth and sixth centuries, the foundations of that school are discernible which, later, developed itself more especially into the art of the Eastern Empire, we must not, on that account, assume for it, at that time, the appellation of Byzantine, but rather designate it only as that late Koman style which, wherever the Eoman element was not too thoroughly amalgamated with the Gothic, was common to the whole ancient world. It was not until after the middle of the seventh century that this state of things broke up. Under the Emperor Justinian the Eastern Empire acquired that form which adhered to it in the following centuries; while, in an intellectual sense, it is from that period also that the Byzantine element may be said to have attained its full development. In Italy, on the other hand, this was precisely the period of the deepest decline of art. After having surrendered up its mildest rule...« less