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Art History
The history of art refers to the history of the visual arts including painting, sculpture and architecture. Considered encyclopedically, the history of art is an attempt to survey art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods by their distinguishing features. This is undertaken by people and institutions with diverging goals, but whose efforts interrelate, including: academic art historians, museum curators, auction house personnel, private collectors, and religious adherents. Given these agendas, it is unsurprising that there are many ways of structuring a history of art, as
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The modern tendency towards increasing specialization in all branches of research and scholarship has discouraged comparative studies of the arts; and what we seldom do we generally distrust. But our distrust of analogies was not shared by the sixteenth century, which inherited from antiquity a habit of drawing parallels as a matter of course.
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― Mannerism
― Mannerism
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رامبراند بر این نظر بود که راهنمای هنرمند فقط باید طبیعت باشد و نه هیچ قاعده و ضابطه ای دیگر، منظور رامبراند از این گفتار همان بود که پیش از وی کاراوادجو و لاستمن نیز بیان داشته بودند: پرهیز از پیکرهای زیبای آرمانی که مطلوب سنت سبک ایتالیا بود، پرهیز از نقاشی هایی که از ایده های تناسب کامل و ترسیم درست فضایل عالی نشأت گیرد. هنرمند باید به دنیای واقعی پیرامون خویش و مردمی که در کوچه و بازار بر گرد خویش می بیند بنگرد و مدل های تابلوهای خویش را از بین مردم ساده و خامدست و معمولی برگزیند نه صرفا به
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― Rembrandt: A Life
― Rembrandt: A Life
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