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a b c Collins, Bradford R. (1989). "History of Art/ The Story of Art (Book Review)". Art Journal. 48 (1): 90. doi: 10.2307/776926.

the idea that the true purpose of art was to express personality could only gain ground when art had lost every other purpose”Carracci, Reni and their followers.. formulated the pogramme of idealizing or ‘beautifying’ nature, according to the standards set by the classical statues. We call it the neo-classical or ‘academic’ programmes” Manet and his followers .. discovered that if we look at nature in the open, we so not see individual objects each with its own colour but rather a bright medley of tints which blend in our eye or really in our mind”

English institutions and English taste became the admired models for all people in Europe who longed for the rule of reason. For in England art had not been used to enhance the power and glory of god-like rulers “ nobody could reconstruct a 19th century steamer from Turner’s seascape. All he gives is the impression of the dark .. of a battle with the raging seas .. we almost feel the rush of wind” Those who use these buildings as places of worship or entertainment, or as dwellings, judge them first and foremost by standards of utility. Painters began to look at the life of the ordinairy mean and women of their time… Chardin like these quiet glimpses of life .. he resembles Vermeer in the way in which he feels and preserves the poetry of a domestic scene, wihtout looking for striking effects or pointed allusions”

if Morris had been right in thinking that the machine could never successfullu emulate the work of human hands, the solution was obviously to find out what the machine could do and to regulate our designs accoridngly” Rembrandt .. left us an amazing record of life in a series of self-portraits ranging from his youth .. to his lonely old age”