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Article: Art infused with purpose and hope. (benefits of learning about medieval art in schools) (Editorial)
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- School Arts
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- December 1, 1994
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"We can look forward...as youths, to being grown up... to reaching our prime, and in our prime, to growing old.... Whether this will happen is uncertain; but there is always something to look forward to."
Bernard Berenson once said, "The arts embody the hopes and dreams of an era." With poignant power, the arts of the Middle Ages remind us of a world of grandeur, pomp, pageantry and hope. Amidst extreme cruelty, suffering and the plague of the Black Death, the arts of the Middle Ages were infused with a sense of purpose and inspired by hope and faith.
Through the arts of the Middle Ages and beyond, we gain not only an understanding of a distant era but ...