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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
technique of oil painting
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ambassador to Greece
uniquely individual
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remarkable monument
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painters from England
especially outstanding
huge cycle of murals
picture telling
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masters saw in reality
joyful beauty
social activity gradually
most picturesque places
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studios were located
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naming the artistic
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most popular
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outlines of buildings
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