History of art . Pisa (xiv Century). The triumph of death, fresco.{Campo Santo.) made up of rays of light, he recovered the supremesymbol, that ^schylus had imagined, to fortify ourcourage when he saw in flight around Prometheus theswarm of the Oceanides. IV In itself, then, this work is a social monument whereinradiant painting groups sculptural volumes in an archi-tectural rhythm. When the man had disappeared, itcrumbled rapidly. Those who came after him could 420 MEDIiEVAL ART do no more than gather up the debris for the buildingof isolated edifices which, in the anarchy of the century,were
History of art . Pisa (xiv Century). The triumph of death, fresco.{Campo Santo.) made up of rays of light, he recovered the supremesymbol, that ^schylus had imagined, to fortify ourcourage when he saw in flight around Prometheus theswarm of the Oceanides. IV In itself, then, this work is a social monument whereinradiant painting groups sculptural volumes in an archi-tectural rhythm. When the man had disappeared, itcrumbled rapidly. Those who came after him could 420 MEDIiEVAL ART do no more than gather up the debris for the buildingof isolated edifices which, in the anarchy of the century,were only provisional sanctuaries, frail and exposed to. Siena (xiv Century). Via Golluzza. all storms. The disquieted and disunited soul of Italycould no longer find in them more than a shadow ofthe heroic certitude wherein the great spirits of theMiddle Ages had imagined her hope. It was afterGiotto that the veritable primitives appeared, but THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 421 primitives who had lost the great impulse—the end ofan epoch. That dull dawn that illumined from withinthe great serious faces of the virgins of Cimabue, withtheir great eyes to whose depths we can never look,any more than we can those of the figures painted onthe sarcophagi of Egypt, on the cupolas of Constanti-
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