Excerpt from Turner<br><br>And though Lippi was a very unmonkish monk, and, in his keen enjoyment of the beauty around him, in advance, as the artist must needs be, of most of his contemporaries, yet he and the other artists of his time were but the harbingers of a day when men would have a much deeper and wider appreciation of the beauty of their dwelling-place than had been possible in earlier ages. The story of how mankind has gradually come into enjoyment of this priceless source of happiness, which yet may be free to all, has often been told, and need not be formally repeated here. It will inevitably come up incidentally as we discuss the art of Turner in the following pages but it is to our immediate purpose to notice that, since Fra Lippo Lippi's day, landscape, after occupying a merely sub ordinate position in the art of painting, has completely achieved its independence.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.