painting until recent color-engraving developed, as André 
Malraux has explained in his Museum Without Walls .

Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets 
of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the 
Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any class.

*     Wyndham Lewis in The Lion and the Fox .(p. 86) has given 
a fine statement of the Italian antiquarianism:

          The prince or commander of the army of a state 
     had often started as a free captain; and birth or training, 
     in this age that has been called that of bastards and 
     adventurers, never mattered less. Muzio Sforza started 
     life as a field laborer: Niccolo Piccinini as a butcher: 
     Carmagnola as a herdsman. We can agree that it must