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The historical importance of the Carracci is extraordinary; the history of the whole of modern ‘church art’ begins with them.

— Arnold Hauser

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Folk-art signifies the poetical, musical and pictorial activities of those strata of the population which are uneducated and not urbanized or industrialised.

Bihar Tribal Research Institute (1961)

The art of representing the human figure in the ancient world begins and ends with ‘frontality’.

Aristocracy in general does not favour individualism; it bases its claim to privilege upon virtues which are common to the whole class or at least to whole clans.

The late Middle Ages not merely has a successful middle class—it is in fact a middle-class period.

The new Christian ideal of life did not at first alter the outward forms of art, but did alter its social function.

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