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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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PiETRO LoRENZETTi, The dcscent from the Cross, fresco.(Lower Church, Assisi.) tortures—we witness a veritable furor of remorse. . . .Siena obstinately allowed herself to sink deeper anddeeper into a sickly resolve to die without a struggle. Of all the Italian cities she had always been themost violent, the one that had known the greatestsuffering in civil war and had been most frequentlydevastated by the military conflicts of the north andsouth, between which she was caught. She retainedthe hardness of the age of iron in Italy. Her artists 424 MEDIAEVAL ART saw Giotto, but touched him no deeper than his skin,and allowed him to penetrate no deeper than theirs.Duccio played the same role among the painters ofSiena as Giotto did among the Florentines. Theywere of the same age, but doubtless they knew littleof each other. In any case, far more than Giotto, he
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti.fresco, detail. The Pope and the Franciscans,(San Francesco, Siena.) remains engulfed in the Byzantium which, be it said,he animates with an expressiveness of great powerand charm. He has, to the highest degree, the gift ofgiving life and movement to his crowds. They areactive and busy, without great actions, but with amovement in the ensemble that clearly reveals themeaning of the scene at our first glance. He has butthe slightest intuition of that sublime compositionwhich, with the great Florentine, is no other than a THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 425 perfect balance between the moral element and thedescriptive element. But he goes straight to his goalof relating the emotion aroused in him by the life anddeath of the Lord, and he expresses his ideas in livingforms; his speech is marked by nobility, tenderness,verve, and archness, even when he is impassioned, and

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