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> # His long struggle with physical passion was almost over, and, as with many other great sensualists, its place had been taken by an obsession with death.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Gr…

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2. > Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

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3. > It remains true that Michelangelo's intensely personal use of the nude greatly altered its character. He changed it from a means of embodying ideas to a means …

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