Lost in 'translatio'
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You only get to invent the wheel once. This basic principle works in engineering as well as in art. Culture is a wheel in motion, and what was created, doesn't get recreated, even when it gets lost. It is merely rediscovered and updated.
The long cultural shift from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (as we call these periods today) resulted in huge artistic a…
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