History of art . MoNTEPULCiANO (xiv Ccntury). Cathedral. that connect Rome with Germany and that connectthe two seas which border the peninsula. The wholecommercial, military, and moral life of the Italy of theMiddle Ages traversed her. The grace and the vigorof the country that surrounds her were to make of hersenses, tense and burnt by fever, the natural moldinto which life was poured that it might be cast intowell-characterized and clear images. We must re-member that Tuscany, when it called itself Etruria,had already played a role in history analogous to thisone. Many of the Etruscan paint
History of art . MoNTEPULCiANO (xiv Ccntury). Cathedral. that connect Rome with Germany and that connectthe two seas which border the peninsula. The wholecommercial, military, and moral life of the Italy of theMiddle Ages traversed her. The grace and the vigorof the country that surrounds her were to make of hersenses, tense and burnt by fever, the natural moldinto which life was poured that it might be cast intowell-characterized and clear images. We must re-member that Tuscany, when it called itself Etruria,had already played a role in history analogous to thisone. Many of the Etruscan painters have the bizarre. VoLTERRA (xiii Cciitury). Palace of the Priori. 392 MEDIAEVAL ART elegance which will characterize the art of the Tuscanstwo thousand years later. Italy received the Gothic from France, at the dawnof the municipal life of her northern cities. She didnot understand it. The forest of the cathedral was notmade for her sky. In their silent shadows the immensenaves extinguished the fever of her spirit. France is acountry united by planes and rivers. Italy is a coun-try divided by mountains. From the north to thesouth her cities of bronze menace one another from thetops of high hills separated by sudden ravines. TheItaly of the Middle Ages could not have a religiousarchitecture, because religious architecture, at thatmoment, received its grandeur from the social desireswhich created it and because, the soil being too cut upand the sky too clement to make men feel the neces-sity for aiding men, Italy had greater need for passonand intelligence, the instruments of the individual,than for inst
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