. Art in France. ■|G. 220.—FIGIRE OF A Ql EEX AT THE PALAIS DE JUSTICE, POITIERS. {Photo. Mieusemenl.) ART IN FRANCE. Bold, his wife, Margaret of Flanders, and iheirpatrons; the faces are strongly characterised,the attitudes natural, the draperies flowing andsupple. All this vigour makes the art, whicha few years earlier erected the puny Charles Vof the Celestins. appear timid and poverty-stricken. For this same Philip the Bold, ClausSluter decorated the well of the monastery withsculptures, grouping six prophets round it:Moses, David, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Daniel,and Isaiah; each holdsthe phyl

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. Art in France. ■|G. 220.—FIGIRE OF A Ql EEX AT THE PALAIS DE JUSTICE, POITIERS. {Photo. Mieusemenl.) ART IN FRANCE. Bold, his wife, Margaret of Flanders, and iheirpatrons; the faces are strongly characterised,the attitudes natural, the draperies flowing andsupple. All this vigour makes the art, whicha few years earlier erected the puny Charles Vof the Celestins. appear timid and poverty-stricken. For this same Philip the Bold, ClausSluter decorated the well of the monastery withsculptures, grouping six prophets round it:Moses, David, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Daniel,and Isaiah; each holdsthe phylactery on whichis inscribed his pre-diction of the sufferingsof Christ. The monu-ment was dominated bya Calvary: Jesus on theCross, the Virgin, theMagdalen and St. John;

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