. Art in France. FIC. J74. rORTKlSS OF (Pliolo. i\^nirtlnn.) GOTHIC STYLE TO CLASSICAL ART. Fl -/ :>■ CHATEAU DK (cher).{Pholo. Monuments Historiqties.) had at first practised a direct and brutal realism; but in the course of the fifteenth century they had applied themselves to the study of the human form with such passion and method that they had taken up the thread of antique art. The Gothic artists, men of the north, Frenchmen, Flemings or Germans, contemplating Florentine figures, realised how uncertain, timid and incomplete their own plastic science still was. Fre
. Art in France. FIC. J74. rORTKlSS OF (Pliolo. i\^nirtlnn.) GOTHIC STYLE TO CLASSICAL ART. Fl -/ :>■ CHATEAU DK (cher).{Pholo. Monuments Historiqties.) had at first practised a direct and brutal realism; but in the course of the fifteenth century they had applied themselves to the study of the human form with such passion and method that they had taken up the thread of antique art. The Gothic artists, men of the north, Frenchmen, Flemings or Germans, contemplating Florentine figures, realised how uncertain, timid and incomplete their own plastic science still was. French art, like all the others, had to graduate in its humanities at the school of Florence. Like the others again, it lost something of its originality in the process. Florentine art, indeed, reached its goal in a universal ideal which it recognised in the works of antiquity; it was therefore able to take up the Grsco-Roman tradition, and, following in its wake, French artists gradually discovered antiquity beyond Italy. The French intellect in its turn was to adapt to its own uses that classic la
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