History of art . Java (ix Century?). Detail from the life of Buddha. {Temple of Boro-Boudour.) INDIA 49 are kneaded with weakness, they are armored withiron and gold, they are swept along to love at onemoment, to death at another, according as the air theybreathe brings them the odor of the trees, of the oceans,or of the deserts. In every case, here as elsewhere, the. Java (ix Century?). Detail from the life of Buddha, bas-relief. {Temple of Boro-Boudour.) loftiest energy and brute matter wed constantly. Themanifestations of instinct, which is hurled with all itsstrength into the immensity of
History of art . Java (ix Century?). Detail from the life of Buddha. {Temple of Boro-Boudour.) INDIA 49 are kneaded with weakness, they are armored withiron and gold, they are swept along to love at onemoment, to death at another, according as the air theybreathe brings them the odor of the trees, of the oceans,or of the deserts. In every case, here as elsewhere, the. Java (ix Century?). Detail from the life of Buddha, bas-relief. {Temple of Boro-Boudour.) loftiest energy and brute matter wed constantly. Themanifestations of instinct, which is hurled with all itsstrength into the immensity of life, arouse the loftiestsentiment of superior natures. If, after much suffering,the Indian sages rise above good and evil to gain indif-ference, it is because the crowd, in India, had plungedinto the intoxication or the horror of life withoutknowing either good or evil. As balance, for them, could be realized only at briefmoments in the average life of society, they sought it 50 MEDIEVAL ART outside the conditions of that society, in the bosom ofan immeasurable harmony, where Hfe and death, whoseorigins and ends we do not know, mingle their equalpowers and know no other limits than life, then, exhaust itself with living until deathcomes! Let death, in its putrefaction, cause life toflower and reflower! Why should one try to infuse theenergies o
Size: 1901px × 1315px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectart, bookyear1921
