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"William Bouguereau is unquestionably one of history's greatest artistic geniuses. Yet in the past century, his [sic] reputation and unparalleled accomplishments have undergone a libelous, dishonest, relentless and systematic assault of immense proportions. His [sic] name was stricken from most history texts and when included it was only to blindly, degrade and disparage him [sic] and his [sic] work. Yet, as we shall see, it was he [sic] who single handedly opened the French academies to women, and it was he [sic] who was arguably the greatest painter of the human figure in all of art history [sic]. His [sic] figures come to life like no previous artist [sic] has ever before or ever since achieved. He [sic] wasn't just the best ever at painting human anatomy, more importantly he [sic] captured the tender and subtlest nuances of personality and mood. Bouguereau caught the very souls and spirits of his [sic] subjects much like Rembrandt. Rembrandt is said to have captured the soul of age. Bouguereau captured the soul of youth." http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/On-Line_Books/Bouguereau_William/bio1.php#Fred Ross

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"Echoing the sixteenth-century views above, Reynolds goes on to say of Raphael:

"The excellency of this extraordinary man [sic] lay in the propriety, beauty, and majesty of his [sic] characters, his [sic] judicious contrivance of his [sic] composition, correctness of drawing, purity of taste, and the skilful accommodation of other men’s [sic] conceptions to his [sic] own purpose. Nobody excelled him [sic] in that judgment, with which he [sic] united to his [sic] own observations on nature the energy of Michael Angelo, and the beauty and simplicity of the antique. To the question, therefore, which ought to hold the first rank, Raffaelle or Michael Angelo, it must be answered, that if it is to be given to him [sic] who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man [sic], there is no doubt but Raffaelle is the first. But if, according to Longinus, the sublime, being the highest excellence that human composition can attain to, abundantly compensates the absence of every other beauty, and atones for all other deficiencies, then Michael Angelo demands the preference.[80]"" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanzio

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Cybrarian's note: I can't write anything like that. Can't spel neither. So, I keep 'em short and copy and paste. I spend my time looking for just the right pictures and quotes. Be sure to check out the other pictures of these galleries. Editing is woman's work.

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