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My point , Oliver, was that Bach or Raphael are great art, but have to be seen as great in the context of either Renaissance or Germany in the mid 18th Century.

The salient point about greatness is that it transcends 'context' (whatever that means--as I said above, the facts of love and death haven't changed in any way and supervene on accidental attendant conditions).

The same conditions won't and can't be repeated. We don't relate to music or visual art in the same way: I could have said consume, but did'nt want to for obviuos reasons.

This is certainly a concern for lesser art, yes. It is not for that which endures irrespective of it.