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During the course of the Quattrocento, emancipating itself from the occasional and marginal roles formerly played, drawing developed into a fully autonomous language whose unrivalled expressive power was soon universally acknowledged.
Lord Acton Lecture, New York University, Dcember 18, 1997.
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Galluzzi, P. (2003). Art and Artifice in the Depiction of Renaissance Machines. In: Lefèvre, W., Renn, J., Schoepflin, U. (eds) The Power of Images in Early Modern Science. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8099-2_3
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