The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art

CHAPTER I.

EARLY ITALIAN ART--GIOTTO, 1276-1337--ANDREA PISANO. 1280-1345--ORCAGNA, 1315-1376 GHIBERTI, 1381-1455--MASACCIO, 1402-1428 OR 1429--FRA ANGELICO, 1387-1455.

A pencil and paper, a box of colours, and a scrap-book, form so often a child's favourite toys that one might expect that a very large portion of men and women would prove painters. But, as we grow in year...