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That style of Italian art which is so open, so glaring, so devoid of the attraction of mystery or of science, with all that which in German art bears the seal of vulgar, though powerful energy, was distasteful to him.

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  1. noun Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
  2. noun The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
  3. noun The study of these activities.

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ars, art-; see ar- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English eart; see er-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English art, ert, from Anglo-Saxon eart = Old Northumbrian art, arth: see be.
  2. from Middle English art, arte, from Old French art, French art = Spanish Portuguese Italian arte, from Latin ar(t-)S, accusative artem, skill, prob. orig. skill in fitting or joining; akin to artus, a joint, arma, arms, armus, shoulder-joint, etc., from √ *ar, join: see article, arm, arm.
  3. Middle English arten, erten, from Old French arter = Spanish artar (obsolete) = Portuguese arctar = Italian artare, from Latin artare, Middle Latin often erroneously arctare, compress, contract, draw close, from artus, drawn close, properly fitted; past participle of *arere, √*ar fit, join: see art, article, arm, etc.
 

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