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The memory of history
Around the half of XVIII century, with the cultural movement of Illuminism and the new faith in reason and science, a new interest for the past and the history began also in figurative arts. This interest was born from the important archeological discovers, expecially in Rome [I] , that made several young students from all over Europe travel to Rome, to Greece and to other destinations, for the Grand Tour [E] [I] [ES] , to learn more about ancient culture. An important intellectual, called Winckelmann [ES] [I] [E] , in 1764 wrote The History of art in Ancient time [F] , in which he theorized the priority of the Greek art on other arts. It’s the beginning of the Neoclassic period: painters, architects and sculptors began to work inspired by ancient masterpieces; in particular, landscapes shows usually ruins similar to the real ones of the classis period [I] .
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