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Rafael Santi – the ideal of the purest art
In the view of the people of the Renaissance, beauty is above all the orderly consonance and connection of parts, harmony. It is based on a proportion, a perfect image, where, in the words of the Italian scientist and architect Alberti, “you cannot add, subtract or change anything without making it worse.”
In the resurrected Renaissance, the ancient formula “beauty is harmony” expressed both the essence of art and a peculiar idea of the world around it. Continue reading
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variety of color
distinguished by its mannerism
thus emphasizing
creative response
naming the artistic
ambassador to Greece
social activity gradually
inhuman tension.
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linear perspective
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years of reaction
technique of oil painting
supposedly saved
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joyful beauty
outlines of buildings
introduction of an orange-red
most picturesque places
figures are graceful
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painters from England
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monuments of the city’s
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