RENAISSANCE ART, A Very Short Introduction
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2005
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loginThe year is 1768. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, at the time amere law student, but soon to become Germany’s most famouspoet-philosopher, steps into Dresden’s new art museum for the firsttime and describes the scene: the profound silence that reigned, created a solemn and uniqueimpression, akin to the emotion experienced upon entering a Houseof God, and it deepened as one looked at the ornaments onexhibition which, as much as the temple that housed them, wereobjects of adoration in that place consecrated to the holy endsof art.
