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Sep 03, 2021
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Antonio Leonelli, Still Life with Grapes and a Bird, ca. 1500–10, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

One of the great discoveries of classical antiquity was the principle of mimesis. It's not that the peoples of the Mediterranean learned to mimetically imitate nature or each other for the first time, but that they elevated an important principle of…

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