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On the whole of this page see Notebook M2 p.133.
The reference to Cicognara is to Cicognara (1813), as quoted by Lindsay below.
Lindsay (1847) I.61 in a footnote writes:
The view I have taken of Byzantine Art, and of its influence on that of Italy and Europe, is, I fear, at variance with received opinions. Count L. Cicognara, for instance, in his admirable ‘Storia della Scultura,’ maintains that the arts were never so debased in Italy as to need restoration from abroad, and that the whole series of mosaics there existing are by native artists, that the Oriental mosaicists visited Italy as exiles merely, or in search of employment, not because there was any need of their assistance - in a word that his countrymen are under no sort of obligation “di restar debitori del nuovo incremento delle arti ai Greci di Constantinopoli.” - Storia, &c., tom. i. pp 475-6, edit. fol. - It would be higher praise and more consistent with the truth, to assert, that Italy has carried to perfection what others schemed and chalked out, - that she has succeeded where her predecessors failed.Raphael and Michelangelo are not losers in glory, because the one rose to excellence on the wings of Perugino, the other on those of Pollajuolo and Signorelli.
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