CHAPTER V.
PAINTING Mediaeval Motives exhausted--New Impulse toward Technical Perfection--Naturalists in Painting--Intermediate Achievement needed for the Great Age of Art--Positive Spirit of the Fifteenth Century--Masaccio--The Modern Manner--Paolo Uccello--Perspective--Realistic Painters--The Model--Piero della Francesca--His Study of Form--Resurrection at Borgo San Sepolcro--Melozzo da Forli--Squarcione at Padua--Gentile da Fabriano--Fra Angelico--Benozzo Gozzoli--His Decorative Style--Lippo Lippi--Frescoes at Prato and Spoleto--Filippino Lippi--Sandro Botticelli--His Value for the Student of Renaissance Fancy--His Feeling for Mythology--Piero di Cosimo--Domenico Ghirlandajo--In what sense he sums up the Age--Prosaic Spirit--Florence hitherto supreme in Painting--Extension of Art Activity throughout Italy--Medicean Patronage..