History of art . Rouen Chapter VII. CHRISTIANITY AND THECOMMUNE. HE Semitic spirit, at the decHne of the oldworld, tried to conquer Europe throughthe apostles of Christ, as it was totake possession of western Asia and ofAfrica through the knights of through the desert, the bare sky,and life without movement the religion of Mohammedremained near to its sources. It could easily retain itsoriginal form and spiritualize everything, even to its Translators note.—The following lines from the Encyclopœdia Britan-nica will explain M. Faures preference for the words ogive and ogivalas against
History of art . Rouen Chapter VII. CHRISTIANITY AND THECOMMUNE. HE Semitic spirit, at the decHne of the oldworld, tried to conquer Europe throughthe apostles of Christ, as it was totake possession of western Asia and ofAfrica through the knights of through the desert, the bare sky,and life without movement the religion of Mohammedremained near to its sources. It could easily retain itsoriginal form and spiritualize everything, even to its Translators note.—The following lines from the Encyclopœdia Britan-nica will explain M. Faures preference for the words ogive and ogivalas against the more common but less precise word Gothic, in speaking ofthe architecture dealt with in this chapter and the next. A very great step in advance was made by the invention or applicationof diagonal ribs under the intersection of the plain groined vault. This 262 MEDIAEVAL ART expression in plastics. Europe offered to the Jewishidea an outline less suited to it. The contact with thecultivated land, with the woods, with the runningwaters, with the clouds, a
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