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{Neoclassical and Romantic Art [continued (37)]} Neoclassical and Romantic Sculpture [Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

[Redbook10:17][19910512:1718al]{Neoclassical and Romantic Art [continued (37)]} Neoclassical and Romantic Sculpture [Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]


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‘The exuberance and “fury” of the Baroque must be avoided, it was argued, because they led to “barbarous” and “wicked” works. Continuing in this tradition, Winckelmann, for example, argued that the Italian Baroque sculptor & architect Bernini * had been “misled” by following nature.’

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*{cf IX: [[Redbook9:320][19910511:1000g]{‘The Baroque’ [Extracts from source text with ms notes][continued (7)]}[11th May 1991]](&f),}


**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:104]

(& cf Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:361c[irca], re painting; much of this article is word-for-word the same as part of that)



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