[[File:Canestra di frutta by Caravaggio 1599.jpg|thumb|Canestra di frutta by [[Caravaggio]], 1599.]]
[[File:Canestra di frutta by Caravaggio 1599.jpg|thumb|Canestra di frutta by [[Caravaggio]], 1599.]]
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[[Image:Kramskoy Alexander.jpg|thumb|Portrait of the Russian Tsar Alexander III. [[Ivan Kramskoy]]]]
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[[Image:Kramskoy Alexander.jpg|thumb|Portrait of the Russian Tsar Alexander III. [[Ivan Kramskoy]], 1886.]]
[[File:The Rooks Have Come Back was painted by Alexei Savrasov 1871.jpg|thumb|The Rooks Have Come Back was painted by Alexei Savrasov, 1871.]]
[[File:The Rooks Have Come Back was painted by Alexei Savrasov 1871.jpg|thumb|The Rooks Have Come Back was painted by Alexei Savrasov, 1871.]]
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File:Gustave Caillebotte Roses jaunes dans un vase 1882.jpg|Gustave Caillebotte, Roses jaunes dans un base, 1882.
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"...to appreciate a work of art we need to bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation. For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life." Clive Bell, ''The Aesthetic Hypothesis''.