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...revival of the study of ancient Greek art and sculpture showed the painters of the early fifteenth century the errors in their technique, and sent new painters to nature for models. They studied now with a greater love of truth and precision...
With the opening of the fifteenth century the new movement for the revival of ancient art and literature began in earnest, and this movement found its most perfect expression in art. This was chiefly owing to the Italian nature, which had received all its classical and biblical instruction from colored object teaching. Painting was the color thought of the people. Every person was an art critic, for all the churches were art schools. Through this whole period of the Renaissance the church was always the greatest patron of art, and three-fourths of all the paintings of the time...
...chief seat of learning, both in art and literature, in the fifteenth century was Florence. In Botticelli one of the first of the Florentian school, we find all three of the elements of the painting of this period combined. He was a pupil of Savonarola, and was a charming painter if not a great one. The leader of the new awakening in art in Florence was Mazatio, a man whom Raphael and Michael Angelo did not disdain to follow. Many men of other schools also were drawn to Florence who in time adopted the Florentine School. At this period there...
Essays must be sent to the Secretary of the American Society, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa. A committee has been appointed to judge the essays, and the best five will be sent to the authorities at Oxford for final decision...
...made that the invitation should come from the students, preferably from some club. As the outcome of this communication, the officers of the New Harvard Union have seen Mr. Irving and have received his promise that he will address the students some forenoon or afternoon between the twelfth and fifteenth of March, during which period he will be again in Boston...