Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . FLORENCE. 171 exertion of lungs. In Florence, on the other hand, everything—or nearly everything—remained unspoiled and unaltered, each work in the place it was originally destined for,. COURTYARD OF THE BARGELLO. and still instinct with the spirit of the ancient founders, who rest in their tombs near tothe votive offerings they made to religion and to art. From the earliest Christian timesdown to the latest times of the Renaissance, Florentine art extends in an unbrokensequence ; the horrors of the Barocco-style. were in a great measure avoided by the artis
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . FLORENCE. 171 exertion of lungs. In Florence, on the other hand, everything—or nearly everything—remained unspoiled and unaltered, each work in the place it was originally destined for,. COURTYARD OF THE BARGELLO. and still instinct with the spirit of the ancient founders, who rest in their tombs near tothe votive offerings they made to religion and to art. From the earliest Christian timesdown to the latest times of the Renaissance, Florentine art extends in an unbrokensequence ; the horrors of the Barocco-style. were in a great measure avoided by the artistic z 2 172 ITALY, instinct of the Florentines ; and at the present day the tendency of her artists is to returnto the best of the early models. Let us now cast a rapid glance at the Florentine School of Painting. Cimabue may be considered the founder of the Florentine School of Painting; he wasborn of a noble family in the year 1240, and worked much in Pisa (the choir of theDuomo) and still more at Assisi, where he covered the upper church of the cathedraldedicated to St. Francis with frescos. He broke away from the stiff conventionalities ofthe Byzantine Mosaics ; and his pictures display a good deal of the seren
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