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‘The literature of antiquity revealed that in earlier times both works of art and artists had been appreciated for their own intrinsic merits. Humanistic studies also fostered a tendency already apparent in Florentine art as early as Giotto* to see the world and everything in it in human terms. In the early 15^th century Masaccio emphasised the human drama and the human emotions of “The Expulsion” (Boncacci Chapel, Sta. Maria Novella, Florence) and Fra Angelico in his S. Marco altarpiece seems to be much more concerned with the human relations between the actors in the composition than with the purely devotional aspects of the subject. In the same way, the artist became more and more concerned with the relations between the work of art and the observer.’ [eg by the use of one-point perspective]**

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*[circa1267,-1337ce; cf2048J~1280ce]

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**** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:] 344

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