A Handbook of Pictorial Art
A Handbook of Pictorial Art
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The Inferno is so nearly destroyed by time, sea-winds, and particularly by Solazzino's restoration, that no one would be inclined to dispute about it. But the name of Orcagna as a painter is as thoroughly identified with the Triumph of Death, as his architectural reputation is bound up with the Loggia; and in historical sketches like these we may still be allowed to refer it to his name, under protest. The painter or chief designer of those works, whoever he may have been, is a ...person to be compared with Giotto and Angelico, whether he be resolved into Andrew and Bernardo. Cione (the former styled L'Arcagnolo and corrupted into Orcagna) — or if the other three brothers Cione be admitted. If we are to take Messrs. Crowe's hypothesis, we must say that it is all Sienncse work — that of the two Lorenzetti. By any other name the fresco would look as terrible ; and though the Strozzi paintings on the same subjects, which are undoubtedly Orcagna's, are said to differ in important features of treatment from those of the Campo Santo, we must leave the question of their authorship open '.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
86 lIISrORlCAL.
The Inferno is so nearly destroyed by time, sea-winds, and particularly by Solazzino's restoration, that no one would be inclined to dispute about it. But the name of Orcagna as a painter is as thoroughly identified with the Triumph of Death, as his architectural reputation is bound up with the Loggia; and in historical sketches like these we may still be allowed to refer it to his name, under protest. The painter or chief designer of those works, whoever he may have been, is a ...person to be compared with Giotto and Angelico, whether he be resolved into Andrew and Bernardo. Cione (the former styled L'Arcagnolo and corrupted into Orcagna) — or if the other three brothers Cione be admitted. If we are to take Messrs. Crowe's hypothesis, we must say that it is all Sienncse work — that of the two Lorenzetti. By any other name the fresco would look as terrible ; and though the Strozzi paintings on the same subjects, which are undoubtedly Orcagna's, are said to differ in important features of treatment from those of the Campo Santo, we must leave the question of their authorship open '.
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