Practice question · True or false
The grouping of painting, sculpture, music, poetry and dance as "the fine arts" dates from antiquity.
Hints
- Consider what the Greek technē and the Latin ars covered.
- Batteux assembled the modern system in 1746.
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False
Why
False. Technē and ars meant skill or craft and covered shoemaking and medicine alongside sculpture. The modern system was assembled in the eighteenth century, and treating it as ancient makes it impossible to ask why particular practices were left outside it.
Practise The Classification of the Arts
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