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 | | To be able to paint every detail accurately and with comparative ease was so exciting that they overlooked the importance of subordination and balance between the model, the color and the proportion in their pictures. |
 | | But if Van Eyck's education left traces of the guild's conventions, Hans Memling (1430-1495) Who followed him and who was not a victim of this education, arrived at an execution that in its absolute realism approached the effects of actual photography-enriched, however, by the superior material of paint. |
 | | It was the work of Van Eyck's successors, and the great achievements of the Renaissance as a whole, which brought about the perfection of both the techniques and materials of painting on the one hand, and of the artistic intelligence on the other. |
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