. Art in France. FIG. 362. — TAlKSTKY OF TIIK SAINT QIKNTIN. (The Louvre, Paris.) Roman divinities, born of acollaboration between artistsand poets, never ceased tobelong to them. In allcountries and in all ages,those who seek to vivify anideal body turn back topaganism. The worshippersof pure beauty all meet onOlympus. Christianity wasa creed still too vital and toojealous to lend itself to thecaprice of artists; paganism,on the other hand, belongs cised upon images otherthan those of Christianiconography. Religionwithdrew from art, andcircumscribed its domainthat it might the more

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. Art in France. FIG. 362. — TAlKSTKY OF TIIK SAINT QIKNTIN. (The Louvre, Paris.) Roman divinities, born of acollaboration between artistsand poets, never ceased tobelong to them. In allcountries and in all ages,those who seek to vivify anideal body turn back topaganism. The worshippersof pure beauty all meet onOlympus. Christianity wasa creed still too vital and toojealous to lend itself to thecaprice of artists; paganism,on the other hand, belongs cised upon images otherthan those of Christianiconography. Religionwithdrew from art, andcircumscribed its domainthat it might the moreeasily defend it. Fromthe sixteenth century on-wards, artists and poetsalike demanded new re-sources from antiquemythology; the Graeco-.

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