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The Altar of Good Fortune, Goethe, 1777
“the Altar of Good Fortune may at first sight look like a Brancusi but was in fact designed by Goethe in 1777 for his garden at Weimar. Here two visual symbols - the ever-moving sphere of restless desires immobile on the cubic block of virtue - have been stripped of their Renaissance and Baroque allegorical accretions and rendered starkly as pure forms, as Platonic essences placed very suitably in an idealised natural landscape” - Hugh Honour, Neo-Classicism
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Date liked: 2016/05/23 04:05:36
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Liked from: Common-or-Garden
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art 415
sculpture 79
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platonic forms 1
plato 1
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