Practice question · Numerical answer
How many arts did Batteux group together as the fine arts on his shared principle?
Hints
- Music and poetry are two of them.
- Music, poetry, painting, sculpture and dance.
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5
Why
Five — music, poetry, painting, sculpture and dance — with architecture and eloquence treated as mixed cases combining beauty with utility. That awkward annexe is where the whole later problem of the applied arts begins.
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