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art
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The art canon holds theoretical and material foundations of art-making and art-perception: aesthetic theory, theories of perception, color and form law, craft and architectural treatises, design principles, and music theory.
Figures· 10 canonical
Homer (attributed)
c.8th century BCE · Ionian Greek tradition · Greek oral epic
epiciliadodyssey
Sappho
c.630-c.570 BCE · Lesbos · Aeolic Greek lyric poetry
lyricsapphic-stanzafirst-person
Du Fu
712-770 CE · Tang-era China · Chinese regulated verse
tang-poetryregulated-versepoet-sage
Dante Alighieri
1265-1321 · Florence (in exile) · Italian vernacular literature
divina-commediatuscan-italianvernacular
William Shakespeare
1564-1616 · London · English Renaissance theater
tragedyhamletinteriority
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750 · Eisenach, Leipzig · German Lutheran sacred music
counterpointfugueequal-temperament
Katsushika Hokusai
1760-1849 · Edo · Japanese ukiyo-e printmaking
ukiyo-egreat-wavejaponisme
Jorge Luis Borges
1899-1986 · Buenos Aires · Argentine fantastic literature
ficcioneslibrary-of-babelmetafiction
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519 · Florence, Milan, Amboise · Florentine workshop practice
sfumatoanatomyhydraulics
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892-1973 · Oxford · English philology and literature
secondary-worldphilology-as-methodconlang