Memoirs of the early Italian painters

First Sentence

To Cimabue for three centuries had been awarded the lofty title of "Father of Modern Painting;" and to him, on the authority of Vasari, had been ascribed the merit, or rather the miracle, of having revived the art of painting when utterly lost, dead, and buried-of having by his single genius brought light out of darkness, form and beauty out of chaos.

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