Ferrara.
Boasted classic imitators of each classic style, v. 328.
Florence.
Contributed more than any other city to the revival of the fine arts,
i. 39, ii. 29.
At what time in particular it shone as a new Athens, i. 217.
Its school of painting celebrated of old for its design, i. 148.
Boasts a series of great masters, and of styles wholly national, i.
365.
Flower-painters, and of fruits, i. 325, ii. 258, 384, 423, iii. 388, iv.
285, 68, 294, v. 205, 266, 353.
Foreign painters.
Disliked by the natives, i. 223, 406, ii. 396.
When judiciously invited to Italian cities, they have advanced their
taste, or at least their decoration, i. 405, iii. 251, iv. 144, 286,
v. 364, 448, 9, _et seq._
Fore-shortening.
Melozzo discovered and enlarged this kind
of painting, v. 42.
Improved by Mantegna, iii. 71, iv. 10.
Perfected by Coreggio, and by others, i. 418, v. 53, 54.
Raffaello left examples of it in architecture, ii. 98.
_See also_ Perspective.
Fortune.
The merit of artists not to be estimated by it, i. 201, 421.