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'These importations [from Italy to France]* were of great consequence because they launched northern painting, in the wake of the Italians, in the pursuit of realistic pictorial space. The advance was gradual, and, once again, the pressure of tradition and, presumably, ideas of pictorial decorum were always important, but the change of direction is clearly perceptible.’

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**– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4]: 607

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