. Art in France. FIG. 272.—CHATEAU DE CHALMONT. ART IN FRANCE. -rllATKM 1)1. :SSIS-LES-TOl KS. (PItolo. Riiiic.) these populations was a necessary factor in its execution, and cathe-drals the building of which had been interrupted waited in vain for completion. Modernchurches, less immense inplan, no longer demandedthe ingenious and complexconstruction of the ogivalcrossing, and architectsfound less lofty vaultswithout flying buttressesmore economical. Inmonarchical France, thefeudal fortresses wereirrevocably in the representativearts, the men of the thir-teenth century
. Art in France. FIG. 272.—CHATEAU DE CHALMONT. ART IN FRANCE. -rllATKM 1)1. :SSIS-LES-TOl KS. (PItolo. Riiiic.) these populations was a necessary factor in its execution, and cathe-drals the building of which had been interrupted waited in vain for completion. Modernchurches, less immense inplan, no longer demandedthe ingenious and complexconstruction of the ogivalcrossing, and architectsfound less lofty vaultswithout flying buttressesmore economical. Inmonarchical France, thefeudal fortresses wereirrevocably in the representativearts, the men of the thir-teenth century had asystem of images by whichthey expressed their emotions; but in the sixteenth century thisiconography no longer corresponded to the collective secular mind had outgrown the system of scholastic symbolsand the imagery of the Golden Legend; even to believers, certaintraditional motives began to seem somewhat childish; the men ofthe Reformation and those of the Counter-Reformation were almost at one in their rejection oramendment of these. Fo
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