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Otello: Rossini - Verdi, Kathryn Eckart

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All art, whether visual, plastic, written, or aural, is experienced and criticized through a process of conscious and unconscious comparison. Trends, advances, and styles exist only in their difference from what has passed before. The study of artistic evolution is sometimes made easier when works with the same subject, such as paintings of the madonna, nude sculpture, architectural style of churches, of settings of the passion, by different artists and from different periods can be compared. The similarity of treatment of subject matter or the lack of it in contrasted artists or periods often provides a basis for the beginnings …