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"The Venetian masters of this time, although nominally continuing to paint the Madonna and saints, were in reality painting handsome, healthy, sane people like themselves, people who wore their splendid robes with dignity, who found life worth the mere living and sought no metaphysical base for it. In short, the Venetian pictures of the last decade of the [15th] century seemed intended not for devotion ... but for enjoyment." Vittore Carpaccio - The Ambassadors Depart (detail) - 1495 - The Accademia |
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