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Baroque
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One hundred years of solitude.
"There is always something left to love."
I think about wanting you back.
I think of not wanting you back.
And all the things in between.
Sometimes I miss you.
Sometimes I don't.
Like my weakness, I go back to remembering you all the time.
So I built myself an imaginary friend, wandered through all its dark shelves.
I made it home.
I brought genie out of its bottle.
I didn't want a wish because you are a dangerous thing to have.
I've been there before, and no
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But if Cravaggio really is the first master of modern age to be slighted by reason of his artistic worth, then the baroque signifies an important turning point in the relationship between art and the public - namely, the end of the "aesthetic culture" which begins with the Renaissance and the beginning of the more rigid distinction between content and form in which formal perfection no longer serves as excuses for any ideological lapse.
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― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
