. Art in France. eplaced pointed arches and pinnacles, and pagan figures were associated with Christian personages. At Brou, a church was built to shelter tombs, rich monuments in which the Renaissance style mingles with Flamboyant art. Commissioned by an Austrian princess, the grand-daughter of the Dukes of Burgundy, betrothed in the first instance to the King of France, afterwards married to the King of Spain, and soon a widow, and executed by a bevy of artisis and workmen, among whom were Germans, Flemings, Picards and Italians, this exuberant work combines the style of two ages, the Gothic
. Art in France. eplaced pointed arches and pinnacles, and pagan figures were associated with Christian personages. At Brou, a church was built to shelter tombs, rich monuments in which the Renaissance style mingles with Flamboyant art. Commissioned by an Austrian princess, the grand-daughter of the Dukes of Burgundy, betrothed in the first instance to the King of France, afterwards married to the King of Spain, and soon a widow, and executed by a bevy of artisis and workmen, among whom were Germans, Flemings, Picards and Italians, this exuberant work combines the style of two ages, the Gothic and the Classical, and reveals the cosmopolitanism of a province as yet imperfectly attached to its powerful neighbours (Figs. 305, 306, 307). Champenols art, on theother hand, shows a veryclearly defined character,above all in this period date anumber of Calvaries, of sepulchres, and of single figures of saints, with faces generallyrefined, and somewhat contorted, in the manner of the Flemish 138. ul SSE. (Photo. Xflirdiitt) GOTHIC STYLE TO CLASSICAL ART
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