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The shortness of High Renaissance is typical of the fate of all the periods of classical style in modern times; since the end of feudalism the epochs of stability have been nothing but short episodes. The rigorous formalism of the High Renaissance has certainly remained a constant temptation for later generations, but, apart from short, mostly sophisticated, and educationally inspired movements, it has never prevailed again. On the other hand, it has proved to be the most important undercurrent
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― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
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As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “You pays your money and you makes your choice!” That may be the most American sentence ever written.
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― First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
― First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country