/lit/ - Literature

>>18751637
All that occurred during the Renaissance was a representation of what they thought the past looked like. Like how we didn't know dinosaurs had feathers until recently. So little did Renaissance Italians understand of the ancient world that they bored pupils into the eyes of their imitative sculptures, while the Greeks simply painted them because they idealized the directionless timeless gaze of their sculptures. This is a very significant fact that Spengler points out.