History of art . The descent from the Cross, ivory (xiii Century). {Louvre.) constructed, would add a crown of chapels, changethe profile of the towers, multiply or leave themunfinished, or would set a rose window flaming at thefront of a Romanesque nave which had been relievedof its vault. The cathedral rose, sank, and spread outwith our feelings and our desires. Hence its close, rich unity wherein, as in a crowd or 322 MEDIAEVAL ART in nature, all the different forms derived their solidarityfrom the current of the same sap. Hence the liberty,the sweep, and the violence, and the sweetness of
History of art . The descent from the Cross, ivory (xiii Century). {Louvre.) constructed, would add a crown of chapels, changethe profile of the towers, multiply or leave themunfinished, or would set a rose window flaming at thefront of a Romanesque nave which had been relievedof its vault. The cathedral rose, sank, and spread outwith our feelings and our desires. Hence its close, rich unity wherein, as in a crowd or 322 MEDIAEVAL ART in nature, all the different forms derived their solidarityfrom the current of the same sap. Hence the liberty,the sweep, and the violence, and the sweetness of thehymn which these innumerable voices chanted and withwhich it still trembles. It was an Encyclopaedia,. Troyes (xiii Century). Gargoyle. {Church of Saint-Urbain.) chiseled with love from the stuff of which France ismade. The Bible story and the Christian myth,translated into active life, were lost in the rising tideof the expressive forms which told, with their thousandmingling voices, everything that was contained in thesoul, now mischievous, now naïve, now lyrical, nowgenial, of the men who had heard these voices awaken-ing within them. The good knights were bringingback the dragons and chimeras from the Orient. Thenewly acquired strength of the imagination made moreconcrete the figures of the vampires and the manwolves, the moralizing beasts, and the talking beastsof the old fables in verse. As the image makers hadnot seen the legendary kings, saints, or bishops, they
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