Landscape and figure painters of America . ctions dur-ing his brief passage through this world? Sothe beautiful in literature and art must beshunned and neglected as temptations of thelower life. Thus from the beginning of the sixth cen-tury to the end of the eleventh the gloom ofthe dark ages spread over the nations, anddarkness like that of the sunless day of anarctic winter covered the earth. We are accustomed to look on this page ofhistory as one of hopelessness and this is not the whole view. The periodwas like winter in another way, for it pre-saged the spring though all t
Landscape and figure painters of America . ctions dur-ing his brief passage through this world? Sothe beautiful in literature and art must beshunned and neglected as temptations of thelower life. Thus from the beginning of the sixth cen-tury to the end of the eleventh the gloom ofthe dark ages spread over the nations, anddarkness like that of the sunless day of anarctic winter covered the earth. We are accustomed to look on this page ofhistory as one of hopelessness and this is not the whole view. The periodwas like winter in another way, for it pre-saged the spring though all that makes forculture and aestheticism seemed lost. Forthough the Roman in his decline had ceasedfrom writing, and the rising German was notyet able so to express his thoughts; though itwas the time of the decay and breaking up ofthe great empire that had ruled the world,still, dark as was the apparent outlook, it wasamid this ruin that the seeds of modern societywere sown, and nourished, and grew Roman and Germanic races were being. Plate III. - In S. Maria del Popolo, Rome. Pinturicchio. A BRIEF HISTORY 7 welded together in the different provinces, 11240-1302. [320. ?337- the German element having secured the su- a**^*320 preme power; but the new nations absorbed all that was best of the Roman civilization, and were preparing themselves for the fuller Since writ life that awaited them and for the successes kg this a ... visit to Siena and discoveries of modern times m science and Florenceand the arts. hf f10™1 clearly that The springtime of the revival Came in the morepainting with Cimabue,1 Duccio,2 and Giotto,3 h^lbouT8and in literature with Dante and Petrarch, these Artists -r* • • • t» are the cor- Paintmg in the Renaissance took the place rect sculpture did among the Greeks, and Cimabue r & and Duccio the latter was subordinate to the former, for followpainting was better adapted to express the ^itionsemotional feeling and the religious ideas of
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