The present paper has been abridged from “Italian Paintings,” by Edward
J. Poynter, R. A., and Percy R. Head.
Italian painting is divided into a number of schools, each of which has
some illustrious artist as its founder, and a train of skillful and exact
workmen following his methods. To study the style and methods of the
master is to study the school. The most famous of these artists have been
selected to represent the Art of Italy, the first of whom, the father of
Italian painting, is