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    Jas Elner Seven Style ee Snr" snltcn nephron ua he ah aye Aan“ “Today the sentiment expressed in my epi thinkable—slthough a receny as 1990 Whitney Davi fred that most working at hirtorans probably sll” (Davis 1990, 38), For nearly the whole ofthe twentieth syle art history has ben the indisputable hing ofthe bore helio the sms an gh been dead. The point x proved by the st eition of ook (1998), whos afl selected rit terms in the of art excluded not only “style” bu also is key “orm.” “connoisseurahi.” even chat interesting and eatalment of stylistic art-historial an yet to change my (male) metsphor frm monarchy 2 ‘he father has een sempossbet ay entirely ores. It thatthe moment an academe displine enters & ‘we begin to experience a certain nostalgia for things a {be les lu diene at inn yao nach moe ‘logically and theoretally grounded 20 mach mae ‘ndconextaly sable 30 much more politically m Silly explict—reoms to lack the empathetic al tloseness to objects that the special quale of syle tits best Moreover, most of thor whos insights in it ew guise were trained and ae experi sod den in (pont)emvtics the atylitic rofl may sil though the father may be, we cannot be entirely sre Fis cldren ae fashioned in his kenes. ‘So what do we mean by “style at history” and ‘remain th evden and eleva? Let me beg with (ar al good formal analy hol) and with ome oi ‘ans fom along wy Back. Plt 7.1 detail fom ay 1 monument up ete Coostew onthe eg of he Forum ety ofRomeand dedi a> 25, Themaerbulk he orchanddo, ith section of mre ret eulptary some secally cos tthe inc and some cle fm carer nonmens wach perp ed no dep o muy eve have ben ded for the pron) sd Nove of his need be puta supii in the coment fone Rome, exept tht the Joxtaponion of ebjes rom diferent pods yo centres separates the let pron tech om felt 5 aso causes concer coef te met ental nd Becta hiey Pate7, wo medalions ating fromthe reign of Havin (4.0 47-38) posed above a ze from the tine of Conran, executed in our is. The Haine sen showing the emperr ands puty standing aon in during he hae (lf) and the emperor ondacing actor les (igh are clean exaple of cscing natural shying te jf pepsi and ashine in deep ell wth he hel. One can thes sees taking plc in the “rl words The Constantinian fsse host emperor fering les tothe popula of Rome ral nel. The imperil gure (hohe fs ben let inthe vce, of in) cera font, rounded bya syne arangenee of and lage chan the other gue. The yeoplearond him ar ersnee ly vial stacked in he central secon, nd without any of te ic elpings ofthe Hadi gre or fre Me), The propor ff the gure ser rope, erste and postures all ede they were signs ether than nature ita el en Ufone the draperies the Contaninin sculptures wth hoe of he Hae Peundl, the ler all urls nting el deting in sone She former ca ie nnning dil ather than chess he mack of clthing rather than atemping to inate ny acl no shout 519, Raphael in his oficial role as the papel agent responsible for es wrote a famous report to Pope Lo Xin wah he ad erature, seule psincng. and almstall the other arts had been declining and had grown worse and worse ant heme of the emperors, yet architecture wa tll studied and oacticed coding {fod ls and buildings mere erected inthe ame sty before ere are many evidences among others the Arch of Constantin, his well designed and well bul at fara archeccure is concerned sculpures ofthe same arch ae very feeble and destitute ofall at Bred design, The, however, that come from the sols of Tejon and Antonin Ps arene nan doen pre (Gali and Tees 1945-74-75) tine was phd wi aw cnury Ine thi ae ne w25 Marthe pece oie 568 ion othe Lie Pear imgurmed abit ara oder dl For lk of god maners nt only i hey nl fuel! Tal gto Rome om tous ines Those emelEme af heer are dec eos aher mens which blog to ante hp ‘ay ry se a 2 nt rs in mlb tee rc Norn oor, whe bee eo thee arse ve, ao very ede one tl perceive how rg ip by the scalars of the hey lee one firmly under the impresion thatthe at of sculpture eg deline even before the coming of che Goths, (Vasa 963, >) ile some ofthe fas” reported by Raphael and Vasa are no Tonge con ferret (the poia are now belived to ome om works comme mora Majn adrian, and Marcos Auris, ot Anorinas Pas and ae prob for Rome sl), he facts ate not crucial oth methodological strategy ies description spay. Bath accounts chooe te describe he arch by vi the rylisticbriclae of ts salu, and bothuse that stylistic analysis ahistorical picture of decline Here style i bilan summoned into ory to make a polemical pint. Te argumentative meth employed ef stylistic disjunction or dference (between the “good” secondcentry and che “bad” fourth-

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