The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries
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And so it went for full two score years. He was at Pisa, at Lucca, at Arezzo, at Padua, at Milan, then he went South to Urbino, to Rome aiid then even to Naples. Unfortu- nately the strain of all this work proved tco much for him and he was carried away at the comparatively early age of sixty in the midst of his artistic vigor and glory.
The art of the Middle Ages and especially at the time of the beginnings of modern art in the Thirteenth Century, is com- monly supposed to be inextricably boun...d up with certain in- ORIGINS IN PAINTING. 147 fluences which place it beyond the pale of imitation for modern life. It has frequently been said, that this art besides being too deeply mystical and pietistic, is so remote from ordinary human feelings as to preclude a proper understanding of it by the men of our time and certainly prevent any deep sympathy.
The pagan element in art which entered at the time of the Re- naissance and which emphasized the joy of life itself and the pleasure of mere living for its own sake, is supposed to have modified this sadder aspect of things in the earlier art, so that now no one would care to go back to the pre-Renaissance ■ day.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And so it went for full two score years. He was at Pisa, at Lucca, at Arezzo, at Padua, at Milan, then he went South to Urbino, to Rome aiid then even to Naples. Unfortu- nately the strain of all this work proved tco much for him and he was carried away at the comparatively early age of sixty in the midst of his artistic vigor and glory.
The art of the Middle Ages and especially at the time of the beginnings of modern art in the Thirteenth Century, is com- monly supposed to be inextricably boun...d up with certain in- ORIGINS IN PAINTING. 147 fluences which place it beyond the pale of imitation for modern life. It has frequently been said, that this art besides being too deeply mystical and pietistic, is so remote from ordinary human feelings as to preclude a proper understanding of it by the men of our time and certainly prevent any deep sympathy.
The pagan element in art which entered at the time of the Re- naissance and which emphasized the joy of life itself and the pleasure of mere living for its own sake, is supposed to have modified this sadder aspect of things in the earlier art, so that now no one would care to go back to the pre-Renaissance ■ day.
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