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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, CHRIST CHURCH. C. RICKETTS, ESQ. C. SHANNON, ESQ., A. R.A. *CAPTAIN E. G. SPENCER-CHURCHILL. REV. CANON J. O. STEPHENS. RT. HON. THE LADY WANTAGE. VERNON WATNEY, ESQ. *ROBERT C. WITT, ESQ., C.B.E. *W. H. WOODWARD, ESQ. * Contributors whose names are thus marked are members of the Club.
THE ART OF FLORENCE HE "artistic temperament" as used in the press and the police-court these words betray a general misunderstanding of the nature of art, and of the artist whenever he becomes fully conscious of its purpose. The idea of the artist as the plaything of whim and caprice, a hypersensitive and incoherent emotionalist, is, no doubt, true of a certain class of men, many of whom practise the arts; nothing could be further from a true account of those artists whose work has had the deepest influence on the tradition of art ; nothing could be less true of the great artists of the Florentine School. From the rise of modern art in the thirteenth century till now Florence and France have been the decisive factors in the art of Europe. Without them our art might have reflected innumerable pathetic or dramatic moods, it might have illustrated various curious or moving situations, it would not have attained to the conception of generalized truth of form. To Florence of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and to France of the seventeenth and succeeding centuries we owe the creation of generalized or what, for want of a better word, we may call " intellectual " art. The word intellectual applied to art has so ugly a sound that it can only be admitted under the reserve of some attempted explanation. In 7
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