The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857

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Various. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857

FLORENTINE MOSAICS

VI. THE CARMINE

VII. SANTA TRINITÀ

VIII. SAN MARCO

IX. THE MEDICI CHAPEL

X. PALAZZO RICCARDI

XI. FIESOLE

THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO

THE WIND AND STREAM

TURKEY TRACKS

ROBIN HOOD

THE GHOST REDIVIVUS

THE GOLDEN MILE-STONE

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE

THOMAS CARLYLE

THE BUTTON-ROSE

OUR BIRDS, AND THEIR WAYS

THE INDIAN REVOLT

SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE

SOLITUDE AND SOCIETY

AKIN BY MARRIAGE

WHERE WILL IT END?

MY PORTRAIT GALLERY

LITERARY NOTICES

FOREIGN

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The only part of this ancient church which escaped destruction by fire in 1771 was, most fortunately, the famous Brancacci chapel. Here are the frescos by Masolino da Panicale, who died in the early part of the fifteenth century,—the Preaching of Saint Peter, and the Healing of the Sick. His scholar, Masaccio, (1402-1443,) continued the series, the completion of which was entrusted to Filippino Lippi, son of Fra Filippo.

No one can doubt that the hearty determination evinced by Masolino and Masaccio to deal with actual life, to grapple to their souls the visible forms of humanity, and to reproduce the types afterwards in new, vivid, breathing combinations of dignity and intelligent action, must have had an immense effect upon the course of Art. To judge by the few and somewhat injured specimens of these masters which are accessible, it is obvious that they had much more to do in forming the great schools of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, than a painter of such delicate, but limited genius as that of Fra Angelico could possibly have. Certainly, the courage and accuracy exhibited in the nude forms of Adam and Eve expelled from paradise, and the expressive grace in the group of Saint Paul conversing with Saint Peter in prison, where so much knowledge and power of action are combined with so much beauty, all show an immense advance over the best works of the preceding three quarters of a century.

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