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But harnessed as art was to Christian teaching, Florence could never produce an art based on physique alone. Just as Byzantium had taken the Graeco-Roman idiom and mysticized it, so Florence took the Byzantine spirit and materialized it. Meanwhile Siena, no more than half a day's journey away, had already taken the Byzantine spirit and instead of materializing it had refined it, civilized it, made it elegant and wistful. If Florence took the Byzantine world and pulled it forcibly down to earth, the Sienese lifted the earth, with its pots and pans 52 THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN ART and houses and gardens and beasts and birds, gently up into the rarefied Byzantine heaven.
In a few cases it has happened, as when the Bolognese eclectics, so admired by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the connoisseurs of his time, fell from favour. It happens, too, by a mysterious law which makes fashionable things look dowdy the moment they have gone out of fashion. But that is a mere temporary ecHpse. Another generation goes by and what was once fashionable and later zled * Since this sentence was written (1940) knighthood (1953). 39 Mr Epstein has received a EUROPEAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE became dowdy emerges from both the artificial light and the artificial shadow.
The effect of this difference of outlook between the two is make the one static and the other evolutionary - or as I have already said, to make one resemble a system of parallel to canals, the other a river. For the Eastern, 'development' or 'progress' in the art of painting can hardly be said to exist. He is not engaged, image on painting is as the European One is, in a struggle with the half of the story of European concerned with the gradual discovery of what his retina. 44 EAST AND WEST Rembrandt knew far more than Giotto about the 'look' of things, and most art students of to-day things *look like'.