. Art in France. 170. —KKKI- OF THK fHATKAUOF COfCY. FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. pansion for the art of the great Flemish towns. Aix was the city of the good King Rene, who loved painting so much that tradition has made him a pamter; in any case, he certainly summoned to his court many skilful artists, whose acquaintance he had perhaps made during a forced sojourn in the Low Countries. He sat for them frequendy; on the shutters of triptychs, his painters have shown us his coarsely modelled head with the pendulous goitre, fig. 171.—ramparts of dina^^. and the thin face of his wife. Many Northerne
. Art in France. 170. —KKKI- OF THK fHATKAUOF COfCY. FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. pansion for the art of the great Flemish towns. Aix was the city of the good King Rene, who loved painting so much that tradition has made him a pamter; in any case, he certainly summoned to his court many skilful artists, whose acquaintance he had perhaps made during a forced sojourn in the Low Countries. He sat for them frequendy; on the shutters of triptychs, his painters have shown us his coarsely modelled head with the pendulous goitre, fig. 171.—ramparts of dina^^. and the thin face of his wife. Many Northerners came to Aix in those days, bringing their angular and richly attired figures to bask in the sun of Provence. Towards the close of the fifteenth century, the modest court of the Duke of Burgundy at Moulins had also attracted painters, who portrayed the family of the Duke, and the undulating verdure of the Bourbonnais landscape. In the course of the fifteenth century, however, the rich patronsnecessary for the artists of the day began to fail. Charles VII. andLouis XI. w
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