Four Stages of Renaissance Style: Transformations in Art and Literature, 1400-1700 |
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... beauty , an aesthetic world , an order of real- ity unknown to the Middle Ages . The forms existing within the renaissance world of art , which owes so much to science , are " significant " because they have an aesthetic rather than a ...
... beauty , an aesthetic world , an order of real- ity unknown to the Middle Ages . The forms existing within the renaissance world of art , which owes so much to science , are " significant " because they have an aesthetic rather than a ...
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... Beauty is in Alberti's treatise On Architecture ( 1452 ) : " I shall de- fine Beauty to be a harmony of all the parts , in whatso- ever subject it appears , fitted together with such pro- portion and connection , that nothing could be ...
... Beauty is in Alberti's treatise On Architecture ( 1452 ) : " I shall de- fine Beauty to be a harmony of all the parts , in whatso- ever subject it appears , fitted together with such pro- portion and connection , that nothing could be ...
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... beauty was exact proportion , clear outline , stable relations . Ghiberti said , " Only proportion makes beauty . " Alberti repeats that beauty is a harmony , con- gruity , and consent of all the parts . Spenser believed that God framed ...
... beauty was exact proportion , clear outline , stable relations . Ghiberti said , " Only proportion makes beauty . " Alberti repeats that beauty is a harmony , con- gruity , and consent of all the parts . Spenser believed that God framed ...
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