Now the dominant view in traditional art is that Roman artists lacked creativity and skill especially compared to the Greek artists who came before them.

现在在传统艺术中占主导地位的观点是，罗马艺术家缺乏创造力和技巧，与他们之前的希腊艺术家相比更是如此。

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But finally, some contemporary art historians have challenged this view.

但最终，一些当代艺术史学家对这一观点提出了质疑。

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Such a view, however, fails to explain the ability of some works of art to excite the human mind.

然而，这种观点并不能解释为什么某些艺术作品能够激发人类思维。

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The latter applies to Lily Kelly Napangardi, an artist included in the Whitford exhibition, who paints from the bird's-eye view perspective typical of Aboriginal landscape art.

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With its stunning Renaissance art and architecture on view in well-proportioned squares and in world-class museums, there is a sense of elegance and permanence that helps root all who live here.

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After the canvas was cleaned, it became clear that Ensor's nightmarish vision of a boisterous city boulevard teeming with banners, placards and a massed, modern rabble was shaped not only by the artist's deep-seated pessimism but by his critical view of contemporary art, captured here in dazzling displays of virtuoso painting that are as variable, original and richly parodic as the painter's darkly comic brigade.

WSJ: A Macabre Kingdom of Masks | James Ensor | Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 | By Mary Tompkins Lewis