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READINGS IN ART.
I.—ITALIAN PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS.
The present paper has been abridged from “Italian Paintings,” by Edward J. Poynter, R. A., and Percy R. Head.
Italian painting is divided into a number of schools, each of which has some illustrious artist as its founder, and a train of skillful and exact workmen following his methods. To study the style and methods of the master is to study the school. The most famous of these artists have been selected to represent the Art of Italy, the first of whom, the father of Italian painting, is