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The Renaissance2 quotes
Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519Middle Ages1 quote
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti · 1435