Excerpt from Wonders of European Art
In following historically the progress of the different schools of painting, it is to the eternal glory of Italy that she appears as the mother, or at all events as the instructress, of all the others. Although it is true that art sprang into life at the same time in different countries, in Germany, Flanders, and Spain, as well as in Italy, yet here alone did it pass much beyond the period of infancy, unaided. It was in Italy that art grew to maturity without borrowing from any, except in its very early days from the Byzantines. Other nations, inheriting through the lessons of their common masters a science already mature, attained, as it were at a bound, whatever perfection they were destined to reach. We can hardly ever find in them either discovery, experiments, or progress; we see no difference separating one age from another, but merely that between individual men.
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