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Well then that's not nitpicking, it's cherry-picking, trying to fit your claim into a specific but arbitrary period. You start by saying "medieval European art", then you reduce that to "between about 500 and 1300". Why between 500 and 1300 specifically? What happened to the other ~200 years? It doesn't matter. There was plenty of good art between 500 and 1300 too. I mentioned the Rouen cathedral, whose west front, t…
The Rouen Cathedral is so impressive that I find it suspicious since there's nothing like it in that period. I think the "and then totally redone again at the end of the 14th century" (after 1300) carries the answer but I doubt I can find proof of what it looks like before that. San Vitale is also so impressive that I think it heralds the end of that golden age. Nothing will be like this for 800 freaking years In con…
Re: Classical statues were not painted horribly
#351"Dearth", maybe. "Genearlly sucks" not that much. Happy holidays :)