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"While Columbus was still engaged in debate with Isabella's council over the advisability of her investing in athe proposed exploratory trip to India over a Western route, Perro della Francesca painted the Battle of Constantine. Four and a half centuries have elapsed, yet passages in this impressive work are as fresh, as modern as though they had been executed yesterday. We have masked certain portions of this famous painting to indicate the approaches which have inspired a variety of recent art movements, The passages selected illustrate the truth that when an art expression emanates from an organic expression, it retains its soundness and causes time in art to be boundless.