CHAPTER I.
THE PROBLEM FOR THE FINE ARTS Art in Italy and Greece--The Leading Phase of Culture--AEsthetic Type of Literature--Painting the Supreme Italian Art--Its Task in the Renaissance--Christian and Classical Traditions--Sculpture for the Ancients--Painting for the Romance Nations--Mediaeval Faith and Superstition--The Promise of Painting--How far can the Figurative Arts express Christian Ideas ?--Greek and Christian Religion--Plastic Art incapable of solving the Problem--A more Emotional Art needed--Place of Sculpture in the Renaissance--Painting and Christian Story--Humanization of Ecclesiastical Ideas by Art--Hostility of the Spirit of True Piety to Art--Compromises effected by the Church--Fra Bartolommeo's S.
Sebastian--Irreconcilability of Art and Theology, Art and Philosophy--Recapitulation--Art in the end Paganises--Music--The Future of Painting after the Renaissance..