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Ep. 118: The Death of Art

Young Heretics

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The Decline of the Art of the Roman Empire

Vassari says that long before the coming of the goths into italy, sculpture had greatly deteriorated. And there had not come the goths and the other barbarous and outlandish peoples who destroyed, together with italy, all the finer arts. So what he's saying is these guys were trying to make great monuments to their greatness but by this time they have rolled through. The art was at that time little less than wholly lost.

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