History of Art, Vol. 3: Renaissance Art (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780331600186: History of Art, Vol. 3: Renaissance Art (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331600188 ISBN 13: 9780331600186

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Excerpt from History of Art, Vol. 3: Renaissance Art

The invention of printing did not, as Victor Hugo said, kill the architecture of the ogive. At most it hastened its death Slightly. When Gutenberg invented the press, Masaccio and the van Eycks had for ten or fifteen years been pointing out to the painters their new path, and in France all the churches which were being built were SO strained in their effect that the architec tural elements were rushing to dissociation. Nicolas Froment, J ehan Foucquet, and Enguerrand Charonton were beginning to paint. The invention of printing was due to the same causes as was the decadence of the art that built the edifices in which the whole crowd had a Share. The decomposition of architectural unity cor responded with the work of analysis which was begin ning to divide the social body, and the liberation of the arts and sciences and the irresistible and sudden rise of sculpture, painting, music, literature, and printing announced the substitution of individual research for the great Spontaneous creation in which the newly aroused and magnificent energy of the peoples had for two or three hundred years been summarizing their needs.

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