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1423. From an Altar in the Uflizi Gallery, Florence EXPLORERS AND DISCOVERERS IS IT ALWAYS HARD TO ESTABLISH with any Certainty the exact moment when something new began. The calendar may asked about the is just as hard Ages came to real start for us to say when tell us that of the the new season in others to religious stories, has By about dous urge 28. the first pin day of spring, but it down if we as neatly as that. It We do know, however, that the Middle — in some places this — and that the Western world entered a new and shown its are growing interest in nature us that people's outlook on and life its \ital more human was beginning to earlier.
Christ Carrying the Cross. About i 540. Louvre Museum, Paris made modeUng almost has this art windows impossible. Perhaps we should not think of stained glass whose beauty depends on the as pictures at all; they are really transparent screens marvelously rich and brilliant color patterns. These windows were an essential part of Gothic Germany In France, England, and architecture. churches began to look like glass buildings, was an exception Italy alone mural painting continued to they were the heirs of the Italy city life.
The Adoration of the Magi. About 1445. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. (Kress Collection) 36. years old. We can tell by her elegant costume and by the castle in the background that she must be somebody important. Fortunately, our painter has not been overawed by her high rank; he shows her as a delicate and gentle young. Or could it little girl, be that the hint of sadness in perhaps a her face is bit too serious for one so just another echo of the style of Roger van der Weyden? 47 Our master next picture (figure 34) was painted by Jerome Bosch, an extraordinary Dutch who seems background van Eycks than closer to the to Roger van der Weyden.