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painting until recent color-engraving developed, as André
Malraux has explained in his Museum Without Walls .
Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets
of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the
Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any class.
* Wyndham Lewis in The Lion and the Fox .(p. 86) has given
a fine statement of the Italian antiquarianism:
The prince or commander of the army of a state
had often started as a free captain; and birth or training,
in this age that has been called that of bastards and
adventurers, never mattered less. Muzio Sforza started
life as a field laborer: Niccolo Piccinini as a butcher:
Carmagnola as a herdsman. We can agree that it must