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September 2, 2016
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire certainly discusses the idea of taste. He has a very rigid understanding of what classical Roman art should be. In fact, according to Gibbon, the stagnation of Rome’s art is one indicator of Rome’s decline. Gibbon writes,
“The triumphal arch of Constantine still remains a melancholy proof of the decline of the arts,