. Art in France. nger suffice for art. Very soon originality will be required, and artists will be esteemed in proportion as they shall have rejected the tra-ditions which, in the thirteenth cen-tury, were held to constitute the whole of art. A new passion, the love of beautiful forms and beautiful colours, takes the place of religious sentiment as this gradually dies down. The arts slowly change their raison detre. Meanwhile, as the mediaeval soul, that rich store-house of legend, passed away, the tenderness and wonder of Christian art all but expiredin the chilly atmos-phere. Artlessness isn
. Art in France. nger suffice for art. Very soon originality will be required, and artists will be esteemed in proportion as they shall have rejected the tra-ditions which, in the thirteenth cen-tury, were held to constitute the whole of art. A new passion, the love of beautiful forms and beautiful colours, takes the place of religious sentiment as this gradually dies down. The arts slowly change their raison detre. Meanwhile, as the mediaeval soul, that rich store-house of legend, passed away, the tenderness and wonder of Christian art all but expiredin the chilly atmos-phere. Artlessness isnot to be preserved inmature age; if it is pro-longed, it becomes intel-lectual debility. The daycame when art had toput away the caressingforms of childish speech,and resolutely accept thesevere expression ofadult reason. The im-agination of artists turnedmore and more to the antique mythology, on which religion had no longer any hold. Art and Christianity nevertheless came together again from time to time, 129 K. FIG. 266. CHOIR OF THE CHIRCH OF LA CHAISE-DIEC. (Pholo. M(■luiiiuiils Hislorigucs.) ART IN FRANCE and their divorce was never complete. But henceforth they treatedeach other gravely, without the familiar ease of the days when theyled a common life. These stately personages no longer rememberedthat they had played together as children.
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