History of mediæval art . s Arts au Moyen-age et a lepoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1869.—J. Labarte,Histoire des Arts industriels. Paris, 1864-1866.—F. de Lasteyrie, Histoire de la verre dapres ses monuments en France. Paris, 1853-1857.—H. Shaw, The Art of Il-luminating as practised during the Middle Ages. II. Ed. London, 1870.—A. Lecoy de laMarche, Les manuscrits et la Miniature. Paris, s. a. 650 PAINTING OF THE GOTHIC EPOCH. sideration of the pictorial art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centu-ries have been almost entirely swept away by the hand of time, bydestructive archite
History of mediæval art . s Arts au Moyen-age et a lepoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1869.—J. Labarte,Histoire des Arts industriels. Paris, 1864-1866.—F. de Lasteyrie, Histoire de la verre dapres ses monuments en France. Paris, 1853-1857.—H. Shaw, The Art of Il-luminating as practised during the Middle Ages. II. Ed. London, 1870.—A. Lecoy de laMarche, Les manuscrits et la Miniature. Paris, s. a. 650 PAINTING OF THE GOTHIC EPOCH. sideration of the pictorial art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centu-ries have been almost entirely swept away by the hand of time, bydestructive architectural renovations, and by the Iconoclasts,—boththose of the Reformation and of the Revolution. Paintings upon glass, however, exist in great number. Theworks of the time of Abbot Suger in the first Gothic cathedral,that of St. Denis near Paris, are still entirely Romanic, as mighthave been expected {Fig. 399). It is more surprising that the oldestof the one hundred and forty-six of the Cathedral of Chartres and. Fig. 399.—Part of one of the Windows of St. Denis, Paris. the one hundred and eighty-three of the five-aisled Cathedral ofBourges, referable to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, shouldshow Romanic features in the arrangement of figures and ornamen-tation. This applies also, in greater or less degree, to those of thecathedrals of Sens, Le Mans, Auxerre, Noyon, Soissons, Chalons,Troyes, Rheims, and Amiens. Chartres seems to have been a cen-tre for glass painting. This branch of artistic activity was not, likestone sculpture, connected with the schools of architecture, the ex-ecution of colored glass demanding a well-organized manufactory;moreover, the removal of the completed works to their place of FRANCE. 651 destination could be effected without great difficulty. The glasswindows were generally the gifts of princes, wealthy citizens, orguilds. This accounts for the lack of organic connection betweenthe representations, even in windows executed at abou
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