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Updated: May 16, 2025
The opening of nature displayed in the works of Massaccio; the graces exhibited in those of Lorenzo Ghiberti; and the advancement in perspective made by one or two others, kept pace nearly with that progress in philosophy which appeared in the best writings of those days.
These he traced to their sources: he found them in their radical principles, and by his knowledge of these principles, his expression of character became perfected. "The nature exhibited by Massaccio had not gone to that extent of expression.
And, therefore, I again state here, that I think his pictures painted between the years 1830 and 1845 his greatest; and that his entire power is best represented by such pictures as the Temeraire, the Sun of Venice going to Sea, and others, painted exactly at the time when the public and the press were together loudest in abuse of him. Turner. Tintoret. Massaccio. John Bellini. Albert Durer.
The individual motives of the figures, their grouping and their action, are frequently taken from earlier art, especially sculpture, and they show how carefully and reverently Michael Angelo studied the works of his predecessors, Massaccio, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, and Jacopo della Quercia. The first division above the High Altar represents the creation of light.
In modern Italy, without going as far back as we might, it took up a century from the appearance of Massaccio to the perfection of a Raphael.
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