po Lippi and Verrocchio,
but I catch seven. And here I have three pennons, with the staves of the
years 1300, 1400, and 1500 running through them,--holding the names of
nearly all the men I want you to study in easily remembered groups of
five, five, and seven. And these three groups I shall hereafter call the
1300 group, 1400 group, and 1500 group.

1300.
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1240-1302 Cimabue +-+-+-+-+-+-+
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1250-1321 Giovanni Pisano +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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1232-1310 ARNOLFO -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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1270-1345 Andrea Pisano +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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1276-1336 Giotto +-+-+-+-+-+

1400.
^
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1374-1438 Quercia -+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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1381-1455 Ghiberti +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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1377-1446 BRUNELLESCHI +-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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1386-1468 Donatello +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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1400-1481 Luca +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

1500.
^
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1431-1506 Mantegna -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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1457-1515 Botticelli +-+-+-+-+-+-
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1426-1516 Bellini +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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1446-1524 PERUGINO +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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1470-1535 Luini +-+-+-+-+-+-+-
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1471-1527 Duerer -+-+-+-+-+-
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1498-1543 Holbein +-+-+-+-+

53. But why should four unfortunate masters be dropped out?

Well, I want to drop them out, at any rate; but not in disrespect. In
hope, on the contrary, to make you remember them very separately
indeed;--for this following reason.

We are in the careless habit of speaking of men who form a great number
of pupils, and have a host of inferior satellites round them, as masters
of great sc