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KENYON COX in SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE, says:
With the Greeks and Florentines it was a delight in the beauty of form,
in which the human figure exceeds all other beautiful things. The
Venetians added a delight in the exquisite color and texture of the
flesh. They first perceived that not only was the human body the noblest
in form and line of all existing objects, but in color and softness and
exquisiteness of Light and Shade, the flesh of a woman was more lovely
than pearls or flowers, so a new art of “NUDE” came into existence. The
figure no longer stood for the expression of abstract idea, but was
painted for its own BEAUTY as men paint FLOWERS or LANDSCAPES.
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