History of art . 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 embra
History of art . 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. AuTUN (xi Century). Capital from the nave of the cathedral. Empire and the time of the Crusades, did not permitany people of western Europe to take root in its return, although every human tide carried awaythe new cities built on the newly made ruins, the tribes CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMMUNE 265 descending from the north succumbed, little by little,to the domination of the moral unity inherent in theChristian idea for which the trappings of the ancientcivilizations offered an imposing framework. Over theheads of the peoples in their unhappiness, the instinct
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