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His Marmoreal Calm: How the Portrait Revolution Began By Souren Melikan →
Marble portraiture appeared around that time in Florence. What is not said in the exhibition book is that portraying living characters’ heads and shoulders is an idea alien to the medieval world. It sprang up following the rediscovery of ancient Roman sculpture, and, unlike bronze makers, the…
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