. Art in France. l\«>KY TRIPTYCHCKNTl RY. >K THh \1\ 111 (Cluny .Museum, Paris.) 16 FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. 237.—DRESSER, XVITH CENTIRY. (Cluny Museum, Paris.) extraordinary work gives a of the France of those days:the people at their work, the nobleshunting and riding, and on theheights, dominating the plain wherethe peasant sows or reaps, wonderfulcastles which have now disappeared,the last of the feudal dwellings, inwhich the grimness of the oldfortresses was relieved by Gothicfantasy. These modest little pic-tures have an engaging freshnesswhich they owe to the lightn
. Art in France. l\«>KY TRIPTYCHCKNTl RY. >K THh \1\ 111 (Cluny .Museum, Paris.) 16 FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. 237.—DRESSER, XVITH CENTIRY. (Cluny Museum, Paris.) extraordinary work gives a of the France of those days:the people at their work, the nobleshunting and riding, and on theheights, dominating the plain wherethe peasant sows or reaps, wonderfulcastles which have now disappeared,the last of the feudal dwellings, inwhich the grimness of the oldfortresses was relieved by Gothicfantasy. These modest little pic-tures have an engaging freshnesswhich they owe to the lightness ofthe medium—thin body colour onparchment. Their fragile art givesan air of graceful minuteness to theworld it represents. No doubt thesecastles, decorated like shrines, these great nobles, furred like catsand variegated as popinjays, are faithful reproductions. But con-temporary architecture and sculpture evoke a civilisation very muchrougher. Illumination was not the sole kind of painting in use at the end ofthe fourteenth century. Certain artists were working in tempera onwooden panels. They hardly
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