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It may be good for us to leave our daily chores and move in high company for a short time, but this convention by which the events in biblical or secular history could be enacted only by magnificent physical specimens, handsome and well-groomed, went on for too long, till the middle of the 19th century in fact. Only a very few artists, perhaps only Caravaggio and Rembrandt in the first rank, were independent enough to stand against it. And I think that the convention, which was an element in the so-called grand manner, became a deadening influence on the European mind. It deadened our sense of truth, even our sense of moral responsibility, and led as we see in modern art to a hideous reaction
It may be good for us to leave our daily chores and move in high company for a short time, but this convention by which the events in biblical or secular history could be enacted only by magnificent physical specimens, handsome and well-groomed, went on for too long, till the middle of the 19th century in fact. Only a very few artists, perhaps only Caravaggio and Rembrandt in the first rank, were independent enough to stand against it. And I think that the convention, which was an element in the so-called grand manner, became a deadening influence on the European mind. It deadened our sense of truth, even our sense of moral responsibility, and led as we see in modern art to a hideous reaction
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It may be good for us to leave our daily chores
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and move in high company for a short time
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But this convention by which the events in biblical or secular history
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could be enacted only by magnificent physical specimens
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handsome and well groomed
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went on for too long till the middle of the 19th century in fact
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Only very few artists
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perhaps only Caravaggio and Rembrandt in the first rank
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were independent enough to stand against it
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And I think that the convention
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which was an element in the so called grand manner
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became a deadening influence on the European mind
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It deadened our sense of truth even our sense of moral responsibility
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and led as we see in modern art to a hideous reaction
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Movie Summary
Sir Kenneth Clarke guides us through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilisation in western man. Beginning with the bleakness of the dark ages to the present day, we consider civilisation's articulations and expressions i...
