The Purpose of Art: School of Life discussing the Renaissance

The idea of art as a didactic thing, a thing intended to serve the community, was absolutely commonplace in the Renaissance: Of course, in order to have a society in which public art serves the good, true, and beautiful, it is necessary to have the following things: And the state is nothing more than the… Read More The Purpose of Art: School of Life discussing the Renaissance

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The Oxfordians Done Found Me!

Some time ago, I put up a quick post called “Oxfordians: The Birthers of the Elizabethan Renaissance“, taking on the grammar-school argument of Oxfordians. This has at last earned a reply, from one earlofoxford17. I post it below, intermingled with my responses: If “grammar school” in Elizabethan England was such a “cradle of serious learning,” and… Read More The Oxfordians Done Found Me!

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