Eugenia Kuyda on X: "what a word salad. art before 1800 was definitely not a “transcendent” collaboration between a patron and an artist: it was art commissioned by the rich and powerful to flaunt their possessions, achievements, etc. it wasn’t made for regular people to look at; it was hung in the https://t.co/x1YpsEa1sV" / X
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Eugenia Kuyda @ekuyda what a word salad. art before 1800 was definitely not a “transcendent” collaboration between a patron and an artist: it was art commissioned by the rich and powerful to flaunt their possessions, achievements, etc. it wasn’t made for regular people to look at; it was hung in the owners’ homes to show off to their guests. oil painting pre-1800 existed mostly as a display technology for property. it was made to show ownership, status, and control over people and things. Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors (1533) was made to show that they owned cutting-edge Renaissance tech, luxu
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