Excerpt from Seven Angels of the Renascence: The Story of Art, From Cimabue to Claude
I take the word Angel in its simplest meaning. I might have translated it into English, but that was unnecessary - everybody knows that it means Messenger. I might have said the Seven D?mons - and if my subject had been Classic Art, that would perhaps have expressed the thing more perfectly. I might have said the Zeit-geist, but that would have required explanation. The word Angel, however, is a common word, which cannot be misunderstood.
Again, with regard to the Renascence. The Renascence is that great revival of Art which culminated in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It had its beginning in the thirteenth, and lapsed altogether in the seventeenth. The First of the Seven Angels came with the Pre-Raphaelites of the Awakening, the Seventh with the Naturalists of the Decadence.
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