Excerpt from The World's Painters Since Leonardo: Being a History of Painting From the Renaissance to the Present DayTwelve years Older than Masaccio was Jan van Eyck, in Flanders. He traveled somewhat, going as far as Spain but never to Italy. He and his brother did wonderful things, but still in the Gothic manner Formalism cannot altogether kill great talent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.