History of art . •— ^-C*^ Vault of Kill-yong-koiian (xiv Century). Bas-relief.{Ed. Chavannes Mission.) Starting with the tombs of the Tang dynasty, fromthe powerful, bas-reliefs that remind one of an Assyriavisited by Greece, the Chinese sculptors, already pos-sessing the most direct vision, condense their science gradually to arrive at a more summary expression. 7 90 MEDIEVAL ART Under the Sungs they were able to conceive an objectas a mass so full, so shorn of details and accidents, soheavy and condensed, that it seemed to bear the weightof thirty centuries of metaphysical meditation. Thence
History of art . •— ^-C*^ Vault of Kill-yong-koiian (xiv Century). Bas-relief.{Ed. Chavannes Mission.) Starting with the tombs of the Tang dynasty, fromthe powerful, bas-reliefs that remind one of an Assyriavisited by Greece, the Chinese sculptors, already pos-sessing the most direct vision, condense their science gradually to arrive at a more summary expression. 7 90 MEDIEVAL ART Under the Sungs they were able to conceive an objectas a mass so full, so shorn of details and accidents, soheavy and condensed, that it seemed to bear the weightof thirty centuries of metaphysical meditation. Thence-forward they could permit themselves all the styliza-tions, all the deformations, all the audacities neededfor the affirming of the moral truths revealed to China.
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