Question: 1

The things the Duke values in art are the things that seem to be alive that it catches the audience’s minds and eyes very strongly so that they would have to think about what is in the art and what is being viewed. Something, which has a strong meaning into the art, and very deep in meaning.  Only in a way that only him will understand the meaning right away when he views the art, and letting the audience having to question the art and allowing them self to think a little deeper. But since his wife and he divorced, wishing that his wife was still there, he seems lost. So that’s what impacts his value in art. What he desires the most, is now gone, and that is drawn to image he still has his wife. Something that is realistic is what he needed at that moment. Also, the way his wife was easily impressed with other men, or accepted any gift that men give to her. Rather than appreciate the things that she already has (husband).   He sees his role in the creation of the great art, as an emotional great art. Someone who takes what they have missed, cared, or desired into an art. How his art was un-appreciated by his wife, even though his art was an high quality, he only wanted her to reject all of the other gifts given to her, and accept an high quality gift by her own husband.