May 21: One Day in China: May 21, 1936; Albrecht Dürer, Alexander Pope, Barred from WHO Taiwan urges global 'pressure' on China
Taiwan voiced deep disappointment Sunday at its exclusion from a major World Health Organization meeting, and urged international pressure on rival China to ensure it has access in future.
An unlikely quest for busts of Alexander Pope.
While he lived, casts of his bust were the most often reproduced and purchased by the great families of the day—outnumbering those of Shakespeare or any of the Greek poets
German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer was born #onthisday in 1471. He’s perhaps best known for revitalising printing techniques. In this engraving of St Jerome in his study, Dürer has created an illusion of light, space and texture that is more like a Renaissance painting than a traditional print. It was a particularly popular piece – his diary from the early 1520s states that he sold or gave away more impressions of this than any other work. http://ow.ly/Kk2230bPYCf
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
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