Four Stages of Renaissance Style: Transformations in Art and Literature, 1400-1700 |
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... verse , accepting as it does Alberti's principle that or- nament is an “ auxiliary brightness " on the surface of Beauty , which consists in proportion . The renaissance literary critics were always talking about the need for ...
... verse , accepting as it does Alberti's principle that or- nament is an “ auxiliary brightness " on the surface of Beauty , which consists in proportion . The renaissance literary critics were always talking about the need for ...
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... verses of successive sonnets , although the meaning of the verse shifts constantly in tone and direction from piety to wit to hysteria to resignation to query , and every excess within artificial boundaries . A more subtle complexity is ...
... verses of successive sonnets , although the meaning of the verse shifts constantly in tone and direction from piety to wit to hysteria to resignation to query , and every excess within artificial boundaries . A more subtle complexity is ...
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... verse - paragraph into more or less closed staves . Again , as in late - baroque architecture , painting , and sculpture , an effect of " number " dominates the effect of " mass . " Dryden and Johnson always propel their poems by ...
... verse - paragraph into more or less closed staves . Again , as in late - baroque architecture , painting , and sculpture , an effect of " number " dominates the effect of " mass . " Dryden and Johnson always propel their poems by ...
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