Idealism, like realism, has at least two meanings in art; (1) the belief that a work conveys an idea as well as appearances and (2) the belief-derived partly from the first meaning-that it should convey an idea that elevates the thoughts of the spectator, and it does this by presenting an image, let’s say of heroism or of motherhood, loftier than any real object that we can see in the imperfect world around us. (Do not confuse idealism as it is used in art with its everyday meaning, as in “despite her year, she retained her idealism,” where the word means “noble goals.” page 60) is relevant here, and somewhat similarly, the Hadrianic sculptors who made images of Antious, as the writer in the Metropolitan Museum’s Bulletin said, must have had in mind not a particular youth but the idea of “godlike beauty.”