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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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painters from England
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distinguished by its mannerism
inhuman tension.
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outlines of buildings
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henceforth become
joyful beauty
variety of color
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masters saw in reality
could not recover
technique of oil painting
creative response
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