¹I’ve discussed this a greater length elsewhere, see e.g. Apples and Pears – the ancient and the modern concepts of art, available at http://hem.passagen.se/obrecht/, and ‘ “The Ineffable”: Affinities between Christian and Secular Concepts of Art’, in Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000, ed. by Petersen, Clüver, and Bell (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004)