[*117] Evidently Chinese and Japanese art were not understood in England in 1859.
[118] Cunningham's Life of Wilkie, II., pp. 197, 506.
[119] Wordsworth's Excursion.
[*120] Cimabue raising a holy war against Byzantine mannerism is an amusing spectacle. All we know of him was that his pupil was a great painter. Whether or no he painted at Assisi it is impossible to say.
[121] Rev. M.H. Seymour's Pilgrimage to Rome, a work remarkable for accurate observation of facts, and the candid tone of its strictures.
[122] In 1843, I saw fragments of fine frescoes in two churches at Cagli which had just been cleared of this abomination; and I was assured that the small church of Monte l'Abbate near Pesaro has but recently been subjected to it, by order of its ignorant curate. The abbey church of Pietra Pertusa at the Furlo is another of many similar instances.
[*123] It still remains to be written; but see the Essay of Berenson, Central Italian Painting (Putnams, 1904), and the valuable list of pictures appended to it.
[*124] This is an example of the taste of our fathers, almost inexplicable to-day. To consider Raffaele as a greater "devotional" painter than Duccio, Simone Martini, Fra Angelico, Sassetta, or Perugino might almost seem impossible.
[*125] The Roman school was painting at Assisi in the Upper Church before Giotto. Cf. Crowe & Cavalcaselle, op. cit., vol. II., p. 4.
[*126] The Pisan sculptors were for the most part Maitani, the Sienese. Cf. L. Douglas, in Architectural Review, June, 1903.