History of art . tear its doctrine from the confused mass of association of strengthening ribs in a cross form to each bay of the structureforms the ogive, the characteristic form from which the alternative nameof Gothic, ogival, has been derived. . The word Gothic was appliedby Italian writers of the Renaissance to buildings later than Roman. Whatwe now call Gothic the same writers called Modern. Later the wordcame to mean the art which filled the whole interval between the Romanperiod and the Renaissance, and then, last of all, when the Byzantine andRomanesque forms were defined, Gothic beca
History of art . tear its doctrine from the confused mass of association of strengthening ribs in a cross form to each bay of the structureforms the ogive, the characteristic form from which the alternative nameof Gothic, ogival, has been derived. . The word Gothic was appliedby Italian writers of the Renaissance to buildings later than Roman. Whatwe now call Gothic the same writers called Modern. Later the wordcame to mean the art which filled the whole interval between the Romanperiod and the Renaissance, and then, last of all, when the Byzantine andRomanesque forms were defined, Gothic became the art which intervenedbetween the Romanesque era and the Renaissance. CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMMUNE 263 the old myths, graven and painted figures were ap-pearing, from the first century onward, upon the wallsof the Catacombs. They announced new gods, to besure, but their form remained pagan, even Greek, mostoften, for it was the Oriental slave who propagatedthe religion of Galilee in Rome. Grown clumsy in. Cahors (xi Century). The cathedral, detail. the hands of the poor people, the art which, above thestreet level, builds thermae and amphitheaters, whichcovers villas with frescoes and gardens with statues,hesitates in the darkness underground. The soul of thepeople will not be silent until the day when officialChristianity emerges from beneath the soil to takepossession of the Roman basilicas and decorate themwith pompous emblems. It will require ten centuriesof seclusion before it finds its real expression and com-pels the upper classes to return to the deeper life andto embrace the hope which has been set free. 264 MEDIAEVAL ART The organization of the new theocracy, the repeatedinvasions of the barbarians, hunger, torpor, and thefrightful misery of the world between the fall of the
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