Claudel's Diary bears witness to the dazzling "things seen" in Italy during his two stays, between May 1915 and October 1916, and reveals a writer more attentive to monuments and statues than to paintings. This representation of Italian art is maintained in his writings on art: in 1935, it is the materials of architecture and sculpture that the poet constitutes as the matrix of the Italian "school" of painting, a school that plays an eminent role in the elaboration of the notion of Baroque.
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