But he began it.

And the spirit of its coming breaks out in all he did.
We take a leap of more than half a century when we pass from _Fra Lippo Lippi_ to _Andrea del Sarto_.

That advance in art to which Lippo Lippi looked forward with a kind of rage at his own powerlessness had been made.

In its making, the art of the Renaissance had painted men and women, both body and soul, in every kind of life, both of war and peace; and better than they had ever been painted before.

Having fulfilled that, the painters asked, "What more?
What new thing shall we do?
What new aim shall we pursue ?" And there arose among them a desire to paint all that was paintable, and especially the human body, with scientific perfection.