The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither … - Fernand Leger

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Fernand Leger

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

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