CHAPTER IV.
PAINTING Distribution of Artistic Gifts in Italy--Florence and Venice -- Classification by Schools--Stages in the Evolution of Painting--Cimabue -- The Rucellai Madonna--Giotto--His widespread Activity--The Scope of his Art--Vitality--Composition--Colour--Naturalism--Healthiness--Frescoes at Assisi and Padua--Legend of S.Francis--The Giotteschi--Pictures of the Last Judgment--Orcagna in the Strozzi Chapel--Ambrogio Lorenzetti at Pisa--Dogmatic Theology--Cappella degli Spagnuoli--Traini's "Triumph, of S.Thomas Aquinas"-- Political Doctrine expressed in Fresco--Sala della Pace at Siena--Religious Art in Siena and Perugia--The Relation of the Giottesque Painters to the Renaissance..