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Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3

CHAPTER IV
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II., _Revival of Learning_, pp.

118-120, for the intellectual supremacy of Florence.
[122] A glance at the map shows to what a large extent the Italians owed the progress of their arts to Tuscany.

Pisa, as we have already seen, took the lead in sculpture.

Florence, at a somewhat later period, revived painting, while Siena contemporaneously developed a style peculiar to herself.

This Sienese style--thoroughly Tuscan, though different from that of Florence--exercised an important influence over the schools of Umbria, and gave a peculiar quality to Perugian painting.


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