How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . MADONNA DEGLI ANSIDEI RAPHAEL SANZIO NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON. DEATH OF THE VIRGIN MICHAEL WOLGEMUTH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON RAPHAEL-WOLGEMUTH now known as Bavaria, did not escape the rigors of war;it kept the Huns at bay and extended its rule to theshores of the Baltic. As the vast tracts of land wereopened up, population increased, people began to con-gregate in towns and cultivate th
How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . MADONNA DEGLI ANSIDEI RAPHAEL SANZIO NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON. DEATH OF THE VIRGIN MICHAEL WOLGEMUTH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON RAPHAEL-WOLGEMUTH now known as Bavaria, did not escape the rigors of war;it kept the Huns at bay and extended its rule to theshores of the Baltic. As the vast tracts of land wereopened up, population increased, people began to con-gregate in towns and cultivate the arts of peace. Asteady flow of commerce set in from south to north andback again; the main arteries of traffic being the Rhineand the Elbe, by which the products of eastern and south-ern countries were transported from Venice or Genoato Bruges and Antwerp and the growing Hanse townsof the north. So, while the country at large was tornwith strife, there grew up along the banks of the riversor their connecting landways settlements of commercialpeople; towns, no longer centering round the castle ofthe local tyrant, but independent communities of peace-loving burghers, intent on their purses and ledgersrather than on swords and fighting. Midway in thepath of comm
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