Art for art's sake Art for art's sake "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendering of a French slogan from the early 19th century, "l'art pour l'art", and expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is divorced from any didactic, moral, or utilitarian function. Such works are sometimes described as "autotelic", from the Greek "autoteles", "complete in itself", a concept that has been expanded to embrace "inner-directed" or "self-motivated" human beings. The term is sometimes used commercially. A Latin version of this phrase ("ARS GRATIA ARTIS") is used as a motto by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appears
Chiesa dell Ave Gratia Plena, Guardia Sanframondi Chiesa dell Ave Gratia Plena, Guardia Sanframondi The Chiesa dell Ave Gratia Plena, also called the Chiesa della Santissima Annunciata is a Roman Catholic church located in Rione Croce of the town of Guardia Sanframondi, province of Benevento, region of Campania, Italy. The Latin "Ave Gratia Plena" is the Hail Mary invocation attributed to the archangel Gabriel when first communicating through the "Annunciation" to Mary of about her pregnancy. The church was erected in the 15th century as a small chapel with an adjacent hospital and foundling home ("brefotrofio"). Enlarged in 1511, it was razed by the earthquake of 1688,