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Originally Posted by kys5isuser
Besides couldn't the same thing be said for painted pictures, making the Mona Lisa just another cliched portrait.
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Well the Mona Lisa is unique for a number of reasons!
But speaking of Renaissance art, *most* of it was the same images and themes over and over again, largely for religious purposes. In one day at the Uffizi I saw a lifetime's worth of Madonna and child. Originality is a more modern idea; the great artists of the Renaissance weren't about originality, but about formula and set elements. The difference between the great and the mediocre was *how* they did it, not what they did. I'm guessing that the same could be said for today's cliche images.
