Description - The Panorama of Professions and Trades; Or, Every Man's Book by Edward Hazen
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...and painters, who exerted in their service the little skill which had come down from antiquity. 33. The specimens of ancient art thus introduced at Pisa, and the works of these artists, at length incited several Italians to emulation; among whom was Nicolo Pisano, who became the restorer of true taste in the arts, in the thirteenth century. At this period, the crusades had diffused such a zeal for the Christian religion, that magnificent churches were built in every part of Italy, in the designing of which, and in their decoration with sculpture, Pisano and his scholars were universally employed. 34. John Pisano, the son of Nicholo, was also an architect and sculptor of eminence, and by him was built, for king Charles, a castle, and several churches, at Naples. He also executed several pieces of sculpture, and superintended the consfruction of some edifices in Tuscany. This sculptor, who died in 1320, had several pupils, of whom Agostino and Agnolo Sanesi were the best sculptors of the time. 35. In 1350, an academy of design was formed at Florence by the union of several Bculptors, painters, and architects. This institution was called after St. Luke, whom tradition makos a painter by profession. The society was afterwards munificently patronized by the Medici, a noble and wealthy family of that city. 36. From this school, there soon proceeded a great number of skilful artists, among whom were the sculptors Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, and Brunileschi; and after these, others perhaps still more distinguished, until it produced Michael Angelo Buonarotti, who, as a universal genius in the arts of design, has excelled every other artist, whether ancient or modern. 37. This great man was born in Florence, in 1474. His father, having discovered...
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