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lives of the artists.

position of the events he depicted, laid open to all succeeding artists the path to the ultimate perfection of art, that })erfection, to the highest summit of which those who followed him, and of whom we are henceibrward to speak, were afterwards enabled to attain.[1]


  1. In the Imperial and Royal Gallery of Vienna there is a Nativity of Christ by Luca Signorelli, with another in two compartments in that of Berlin. There is also a Pieta by this master in the Spada Palace in Rome. —L. Schorn.