History of art . SiENESE School (end of xiv Century). detail. (Subiaco.) Crucifixion, fresco. of violoncellos, only Ambrogio has heard the confusedmurmur that rises from the streets and the countrysideand from the little hills covered with vineyards andpine trees—the murmur that announces a new awaken-ing; and at the same time his brother Pietro imprintsa new unity upon the plastic splendor that he discoversin the drama of the Cross. A marvelous animationpeoples his august landscapes, where the labors of thehusbandmen and scenes of war cover the serried hills 428 MEDIiEVAL ART and cut into the
History of art . SiENESE School (end of xiv Century). detail. (Subiaco.) Crucifixion, fresco. of violoncellos, only Ambrogio has heard the confusedmurmur that rises from the streets and the countrysideand from the little hills covered with vineyards andpine trees—the murmur that announces a new awaken-ing; and at the same time his brother Pietro imprintsa new unity upon the plastic splendor that he discoversin the drama of the Cross. A marvelous animationpeoples his august landscapes, where the labors of thehusbandmen and scenes of war cover the serried hills 428 MEDIiEVAL ART and cut into the hollow valleys. It is a vast poem, epicand intimate, teeming with imagination, as if a worldforeseen were fermenting in the furrows of the plow,in the seed, and in harvests. And then, more pro-foundly than any one of the Florentines of his time,Ambrogio scrutinizes and characterizes faces. His. Sano di Pietro or Sassetta. Charity, Poverty, and Humility. (Chantilly.) great efhgies, as firm and pure as the portraits of theChinese, seem graven in the wall, seem outlined andcemented with stone. Slowly and powerfully theireyes awaken and look out from the hard faces, they donot move, but are terrible in their severity, their con-centration, and their silence. Their drawing is soconcise and so completely a result of the will of theartist, the expressive lines and curves are so closely THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 429 linked that we already behold a first and almost com-plete realization of the desire to determine by geo-metrical means the least abstract characteristics oflife when it moves us most; and later on, it will be inan art conceived in this manner that we shall find themeeting place of the heroes of the following century,Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Piero della Fran-cesca, Luca Signorelli. But even so, Ambrogio, almostas truly as his brother Pietro, remains a m
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