History of art . Spain (end of the xv Century). Detail of the façade of SanGregorio at ValladoHd. 376 MEDIEVAL ART to it the most fiercely of all, and that she was the her fever, she heaped up all the stones wrought bythe sculptors who, for five hundred years, had beenliving on her lean flanks, the Visigoths, the French, theFlemings, the Germans, the Moors, the Jews, and theIberians, and it was with furor that she affirmed her. Portugal (xiv and xv Centuries). Batailla. Facade of the chapel of irreducible fanaticism at the hour when the workmenof the north, in the countries torn by war


History of art . Spain (end of the xv Century). Detail of the façade of SanGregorio at ValladoHd. 376 MEDIEVAL ART to it the most fiercely of all, and that she was the her fever, she heaped up all the stones wrought bythe sculptors who, for five hundred years, had beenliving on her lean flanks, the Visigoths, the French, theFlemings, the Germans, the Moors, the Jews, and theIberians, and it was with furor that she affirmed her. Portugal (xiv and xv Centuries). Batailla. Facade of the chapel of irreducible fanaticism at the hour when the workmenof the north, in the countries torn by war, were con-fessing their despair. However, nothing was lost. Man, goaded by doubt,was commencing once more his climb toward the inac-cessible summit. While the last masons were settingthe last and the highest spires over the last and thehighest naves, there sallied forth from a port of thatsame Spain three caravels that were to plunge into thewest. In barely a hundred and fifty years, at a time THE EXPANSION OF THE FRENCH IDEA 377 when there were no other roads than the rivers, whenthe cities were surrounded by walls, when severalmonths of dangerous navigation were needed to go


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