History of art . PÉRIGUEUX (x Century). Nave of Saint-Front. power. Islam was approaching its summit. The Cru-saders, from the end of the eleventh century onward,were hurling Europe upon the Orient in troubled tor-rents. The barbarians of the west fell on the fabulouscities of the east as the barbarian of the north hadmarched on Rome. A hundred years after they hadpillaged Jerusalem, a city of the Infidel, the Frankspillaged Byzantium, a Christian city. Europe breaksdown the rampart that protects her from Asia. There was in the fourteenth century, indeed, after thefall of the Frankish Empire,

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History of art . PÉRIGUEUX (x Century). Nave of Saint-Front. power. Islam was approaching its summit. The Cru-saders, from the end of the eleventh century onward,were hurling Europe upon the Orient in troubled tor-rents. The barbarians of the west fell on the fabulouscities of the east as the barbarian of the north hadmarched on Rome. A hundred years after they hadpillaged Jerusalem, a city of the Infidel, the Frankspillaged Byzantium, a Christian city. Europe breaksdown the rampart that protects her from Asia. There was in the fourteenth century, indeed, after thefall of the Frankish Empire, a last outburst of energywhich spread the art of Constantinople over Rumania,. MoNREALE (Sicily) (xii Century). The Cathedral. BYZANTIUM 229 Serbia, and Macedonia. The mosaics became moreliving, more full of movement; the world moved; Giot-tesque Italy, after having undergone the influence ofByzantium, affected Byzantium in its turn. Greatpainting was perhaps to have emerged from the confu-sion of the primitives and to prepare, as it did at the

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