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The Story of the Classical Ideal
For six or eight hundred years the Christian perspective of the human form had prevailed. Then for some reason or for many of them, men began to look back with nostalgia to classical times. Some say it was the rediscovery … Continue reading
Posted in art, art history, Beauty, Michelangelo, Renaissance, sculpture
Tagged beauty's comeback, godlikeness, humanism
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