. Art in France. FIG. 260. JEAN BOIRDICHOX. NATIVITY. MIXIATL RE IN THE BOOK OF HOURS OF ANXE OF BRITTANY. (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.){Photo. Bcrlhaiid.) From the mo-ment oi itsbirth, engravinglaid hold ofthis motive ;it propagatedamong thepeople that ser-mon on death,which, nodoubt, har-monised withthe pre-occupa-tions of thefifteenth cen-tury. Menhad sufferedboth from civilwar and foreigninvasion; inthose davs ofpillage, famine. I 2;>I. JEAN BOURDICHON. ANNE OF BRITTANY AND HER PATRON SAINTS. MINIATURE IN THE BOOK OF HOURS OF ANNE OF BRITTANY. (Bibliotheque Xationale, Paris.){Pho
. Art in France. FIG. 260. JEAN BOIRDICHOX. NATIVITY. MIXIATL RE IN THE BOOK OF HOURS OF ANXE OF BRITTANY. (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.){Photo. Bcrlhaiid.) From the mo-ment oi itsbirth, engravinglaid hold ofthis motive ;it propagatedamong thepeople that ser-mon on death,which, nodoubt, har-monised withthe pre-occupa-tions of thefifteenth cen-tury. Menhad sufferedboth from civilwar and foreigninvasion; inthose davs ofpillage, famine. I 2;>I. JEAN BOURDICHON. ANNE OF BRITTANY AND HER PATRON SAINTS. MINIATURE IN THE BOOK OF HOURS OF ANNE OF BRITTANY. (Bibliotheque Xationale, Paris.){Pholo. Bcrlhaiid.) and pestilence, death was ever present, and the thought that all,from the beggar to the King, the Emperor, and the Pope wereequal before it, gave a kind of vindictive satisfaction to the sort of burlesque and sinisterfrenzy accordingly informs all thesepoor little puppets; the dance isattuned to the crash of drums andthe rattle of skeletons. Painterswere not alone in their expres-sion of this horrible gaiety at theexploits of death. The aspects ofputrefaction, described with suchcrudity by Villon, were depictedwith strange insistence by sculptorsin their stone corpses. But thetime was at hand when all theserude v/orks were to disappear beforea more cultured art. The sinisterphantoms of the night were to vanishin the radiant light of the Renaissance. 127
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