Helen Gardner

Byatt is certainly familiar with and clever at handling these newer critical approaches, as the more academic stretches of Possessions demonstrate. However, she remains committed to the idea that literature has a moral dimension, and that language can in fact get abstract truths and felt experience. As she says of her days at Cambridge, she learned that writing “was taught, in order to make the world better, more just, more discriminating.” Reflecting back on her experience at “Leavis…

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genius has embodied the Renaissance humanist principle. Leonardo has often been portrayed as the prime example of “Renaissance Man” , a man of “unquenchable curiosity” along with “feverishly inventive imagination”. In accordance with Art Historian Helen Gardner the range and complexity of his activities were with no precedent; while “his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote”(Patrico,(20015),107). Religion was important to Da Vinci’s art, a part of his…

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun Throughout history there have been, and always will be, artistic groups with differing ideas and morals, which causes them to clash. The art produced by these groups offer a visual representation of their beliefs, along with other insight on the social issues of the time period they are associated with. Women’s and human rights have been some of the most prevalent issues throughout history, and continue to be today. Artists tended to create artwork that reflected…