Young and promising

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I wonder: why in the 16 th century artists did not write it like in the 15 th, 17 th, not as in the 16 th, 19 th, not as a 18-m, finally, in the 20 th, not as in 19 -m (talking about Western European art, of course, as in Russia, secular painting in those days was not yet), and artists, whose products are shown in this plot, without asking existential questions, repeat the "achievements" of painting the mid-19 th century, where the quality of determined similarity. Is it not strange?