On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:23 PM, William Conger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> One of the things we tend to overlook about artwork made in the era of > royal and religious patronage is the narrowness of the audience for whom > specific artworks were made. Major works, like ptgs. of the family of > Charles V, by Velasquez were made for an audience of two, the king and the > queen of Spain. - By nature, aristocracies are too liable to narrow the scope of human perfectability, democracies to expand it beyond reason. De Tocqueville
