. Art in France. , on either side of the great angel who is weighing souls, the final separation between the two worlds is completed. The damned are driven away and cast into the jaws of hell by horrible and grotesque demons; one of these has the grinning mask of a satyr. But the elect are touching to behold, their little curly heads irradiated by the childishj smile of an intimate faith (Figs. 148. 153). Until we come to the Nethedandish painters of the fifteenth century, we shall find no more expressive vision of the Last Judg-ment than this legacy fromthe Middle Ages. TheGothic painters had
. Art in France. , on either side of the great angel who is weighing souls, the final separation between the two worlds is completed. The damned are driven away and cast into the jaws of hell by horrible and grotesque demons; one of these has the grinning mask of a satyr. But the elect are touching to behold, their little curly heads irradiated by the childishj smile of an intimate faith (Figs. 148. 153). Until we come to the Nethedandish painters of the fifteenth century, we shall find no more expressive vision of the Last Judg-ment than this legacy fromthe Middle Ages. TheGothic painters had littlefurther to Invent; theNetherlanders addedgrimaces and contortionsto the spectacle of hell,and the painters ofCologne devoutly colouredthe little figures of thesaved, putting blue abovetheir heads, green beneaththeir feet, and red upontheir cheeks. By this imitation of the flexibility and disorder of actual life, sculpture freed itself from architecture, to which it was at first merely supplementary, and 78. FIO. 157.—TOMB OF SAINT STEPHEN; CUtRClATBAXINE (CORR^-ZE). COMMUNAL OR GOTHIC ART
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