Though he lived far into the Early Renaissance he did not
change his style and manner of work in conformity with the work of
others about him. He was the last inheritor of the Giottesque
traditions. Religious sentiment was the strong feature of his art. He
was behind Giotto and Lorenzetti in power and in imagination, and
behind Orcagna as a painter. He knew little of light, shade,
perspective, and color, and in characterization was feeble, except in
some late work. One face or type answered him for all classes of
people--a sweet, fair face, full of divine tenderness. His art had
enough nature in it to express his meanings, but little more. He was
pre-eminently a devout painter, and really the last of the great
religionists in painting.

[Illustration: FIG. 25.--FRA ANGELICO. ANGEL (DETAIL). UFFIZI.]

The other regions of Italy had not at this time developed schools of
painting of sufficient consequence to mention.

PRINCIPAL WORKS: FLORENTINES--Cimabue, Madonnas S. M.
Novella and Acad. Florence, frescos Upper Church of Assisi
(?); Giotto, frescos Upper and Lower churches Assisi, best
work Arena chapel Padua, Bardi and Peruzzi chapels S. Croce,
injured frescos Bargello Florence; Taddeo Gaddi, frescos
entrance wall Baroncelli chapel S. Croce, Spanish chapel S.
M. Novella (designed by Gaddi (?)); Agnolo Gaddi frescos in
choir S. Croce, S. Jacopo tra Fossi Florence, panel pictures
Florence Acad.; Giovanni da Milano, Bewailing of Christ
Florence Acad., Virgin enthroned Prato Gal., altar-piece
Uffizi Gal., frescos S. Croce Florence; Antonio Veneziano,
frescos in ceiling of Spanish chapel, S. M. Novella, Campo
Santo Pisa; Orcagna, altar-piece Last Judgment and Paradise
Strozzi chapel S. M. Novella, S. Zenobio Duomo, Saints
Medici chapel S. Croce, Descent of Holy Spirit Badia
Florence, altar-piece Nat. Gal. Lon.; Spinello Aretino, Life
of St. Benedict S. Miniato al Monte near Florence,
Annunciation Convent degl' Innocenti Arezzo, frescos Campo
Santo Pisa, Coronation Florence Acad., Barbarossa frescos
Palazzo Publico Sienna; Andrea da Firenze, Church Militant,
Calvary, Crucifixion Spanish chapel, Upper series of Life of
S. Raniera Campo Santo Pisa.

SIENNESE--Guido da Sienna, Madonna S. Domenico Sienna;
Duccio, panels Duomo and Acad. Sienna, Madonna Nat. Gal.
Lon.; Simone di Martino, frescos Palazzo