. Art in France. IM. 248. — CHARONION. 1 llE lORON.^TlON OF THE FRAGMENT OF THE PKTURE AT VlLI,;.NON. (Photo. LdHglois.) 122 FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. FIG. 249. VIRGIN OF PITY. FROM VILLENEUVE-LES-AVIGNON. (The Lou\Te, Paris.) while to linger over these landscapes and their little figures. It is not often that French painters show us their native land and its peasants with such sin-cerity (Figs. 252,253).Nevertheless, French art was about to accept the motives of an alien art. Fouquet went to Italy, and brought back with him drawings of arabesques and p
. Art in France. IM. 248. — CHARONION. 1 llE lORON.^TlON OF THE FRAGMENT OF THE PKTURE AT VlLI,;.NON. (Photo. LdHglois.) 122 FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. FIG. 249. VIRGIN OF PITY. FROM VILLENEUVE-LES-AVIGNON. (The Lou\Te, Paris.) while to linger over these landscapes and their little figures. It is not often that French painters show us their native land and its peasants with such sin-cerity (Figs. 252,253).Nevertheless, French art was about to accept the motives of an alien art. Fouquet went to Italy, and brought back with him drawings of arabesques and pilasters, a whole system of orna-mentation in the style of Michelozzo, which he used with more zeal than discretion. The spectacle of this Tourangeau, of the middle of the fifteenth century, sacri-ficing the fantasies of flamboyant Gothicfor the more methodical and less capri-cious decoration of Italy, is a significantone. This assimilative facility is foundelsewherein Fou-quet scircle, inone of hiss u c c e s -sors, theminiat u -rist JeanB o u r - dichon. The Book of Hours of Anne of Brittany (Figs. 260, 261 ; 1508). shows a sustained sweetness not with-out insipidity. The painter ha
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