. Art in France. , the sky and the ground, blue and green. The painter is about to study nature. The contemporaries of Charles V were able to recognise certain aspects of their times when they turned over the leaves of a manu-script. The illuminators were no longer Benedictines in cells, but laymen at large; their eyes were wide open to men and things. They lived near the Porte Saint-Denis, and led joyous lives, if we are to believe Christine de were able to depict Charles Vreceiving manuscripts; they alsoadded familiar scenes and figures ofthe streets to the usual iconography,and m
. Art in France. , the sky and the ground, blue and green. The painter is about to study nature. The contemporaries of Charles V were able to recognise certain aspects of their times when they turned over the leaves of a manu-script. The illuminators were no longer Benedictines in cells, but laymen at large; their eyes were wide open to men and things. They lived near the Porte Saint-Denis, and led joyous lives, if we are to believe Christine de were able to depict Charles Vreceiving manuscripts; they alsoadded familiar scenes and figures ofthe streets to the usual iconography,and mingled contemporary anec-dotes with traditional narrative. Ifthe perspective of these small pic-tures IS still conventional, it is at leastintelligible ; the miniaturist has littlesense of composition; but his dis-connected juxtapositions aboundin delightfully observed episodes, from which it is easy to deduce Parisian life in the time of Charles V. The appearance of landscape reveals a novel conception of 115 12. FIG. 234.—ARISTOTLE AND CAMPASPE (Cathedral, Lyons.) ART IN FRANCE
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