The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Towards the end of the 13th century,painting began to show the results of the same .renewed studyof antique models, and here again the revival is connected withthe names of gifted individuals. Among thes« the most note-worthy are the Roman Pietro Cavallini and Ducdo di Buonin-segna of Siena. The condition of painting in Italy in latemedieval days has already been indicated. Cavallini andDuccio now produce, in two standard forms of the art, the muralpainting of the Last Judgment and the enthroned M
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Towards the end of the 13th century,painting began to show the results of the same .renewed studyof antique models, and here again the revival is connected withthe names of gifted individuals. Among thes« the most note-worthy are the Roman Pietro Cavallini and Ducdo di Buonin-segna of Siena. The condition of painting in Italy in latemedieval days has already been indicated. Cavallini andDuccio now produce, in two standard forms of the art, the muralpainting of the Last Judgment and the enthroned Madonnawith angels—works characterized by good taste, by largenessand suavity of treatment, and by an execution which, if stillsomewhat primitive and laboured, at any rate aims at beauty ofform and colour. The recently uncovered fresco of the LastJudgment by Cavallini, executed about 1203 on the western wallof S. Cecilia in Trasteverc at Rome, is classical in feeling andrepresents an immense advance on the older rendering of thesame subject in S. Angclo in Formis (see § 10). The- vast <. zo inOft. O z HZ I—I H ^* S?
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