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This document discusses the Apollo Belvedere sculpture and the rise of proto-white supremacist ideas in the 18th century. It describes the sculpture and its rediscovery in the Renaissance. It outlines how Johann Winckelmann popularized neoclassical ideals of beauty based on Greek and Roman art. The document also discusses how color was gradually removed from sculptures and the development of ideas linking whiteness to civilization and non-white skin to barbarism influenced by encounters with other cultures

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zoya62684

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