. Art in France. FIG. 206. CHOIR-M KLEN OF THE CATHEDRAL OF ALBI. ART IN FRANCE. -TOWER OF THE CATHEDRALOF RODEZ. of the brick fortress (Fig. 205).But Flamboyant Gothic raised nocathedral. The vigour of thestructure was no longer concentratedin a lew robust and sturdy trunks,as in the days of the great cathe-drals; it was dispersed in tortuousbranches; the lofty groves of earlyGothic were transformed into densethickets. The great Gothic periodhad exhausted invention in sculptureas in architecture. But sculpturecan live by imitation; once de-tached from the architecture whichhad hitherto domina
. Art in France. FIG. 206. CHOIR-M KLEN OF THE CATHEDRAL OF ALBI. ART IN FRANCE. -TOWER OF THE CATHEDRALOF RODEZ. of the brick fortress (Fig. 205).But Flamboyant Gothic raised nocathedral. The vigour of thestructure was no longer concentratedin a lew robust and sturdy trunks,as in the days of the great cathe-drals; it was dispersed in tortuousbranches; the lofty groves of earlyGothic were transformed into densethickets. The great Gothic periodhad exhausted invention in sculptureas in architecture. But sculpturecan live by imitation; once de-tached from the architecture whichhad hitherto dominated it, it followed,in the course of the fourteenth andfifteenth centuries, a peculiar evo-lution, independent of all decorative considerations, and intent on the creation of forms more realistic or more mannered. The favourite motive was the figure of the Virgin. The image of the Motlier, standing, and hold-ing in her arms the Child Jesus,naturally multiplied. We find itnot only on the altars of her in-numerable chapels and in privateoratories, but at street-corners,sheltere
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