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Never should we forget the memory of the person who, by bringing about this public exhibition of paintings, excited the need of artists to emulate, prepared all of the levels of society especially men of taste a useful exercise and a sweet pastime and forced the retreat of the decadence of painting and by more than a thousand years and made the nation more educated and more difficult to overcome in this genre.
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Diderot, D., Glaus, J.S.D. (2011). The Condition of Art. In: Glaus, J., Seznec, J. (eds) On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot's Aesthetic Thought. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0062-8_3
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