FAMOUS PAINTINGS

“The statement that the work of the Old Masters can be effective for popular education is not such a platitude as it will at first appear. It is both more disputable and more true than it seems. (...) I should therefore urge the re-publication of old and good pictures as a real part of that grossly neglected thing—public education. Our historians lie much more than our journalists; our fashonable conceptions of the past change with every fashion; and like most fashions, are fantastic and hideous. But the old colours and the old canvases do not lie; they were really achieved in the ages which we parody or pervert; (...)” — retirado da Introdução de G. K. Chersterton.

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