. Art in France. y-worker,following the taste of the century, hascompressed the history of Jesus into thespace of a few centimetres. The scenesare enframed in miniature columns andpointed arches sur-mounted by gables, anelaborate architecturalsetting, which invitescomparison with theminiatures in the Psalterof Saint Louis. TheFrench ivory-workers, liketors, excelled in adaptingattitudes, expressive faces,to the hmits of their liments. During the four-teenth century, statu-ary gradually achievedportraiture; this wasthe natural evolutionof an art that had be-come both more inde-pendent and riche
. Art in France. y-worker,following the taste of the century, hascompressed the history of Jesus into thespace of a few centimetres. The scenesare enframed in miniature columns andpointed arches sur-mounted by gables, anelaborate architecturalsetting, which invitescomparison with theminiatures in the Psalterof Saint Louis. TheFrench ivory-workers, liketors, excelled in adaptingattitudes, expressive faces,to the hmits of their liments. During the four-teenth century, statu-ary gradually achievedportraiture; this wasthe natural evolutionof an art that had be-come both more inde-pendent and richer intechnique. It was also a result of thenew conditions; the artists were in theservice of great nobles, who raised theirown monuments during their the reign of Saint Louis, the kingsof France had their own images andthose of their ancestors carved upontheir tombs in Saint Denis; the Dukesof Burgundy at Dijon, the Duke ofBerry at Bourges, the Dukes of Bour-bon at Souvigny, the Popes at Avignon 107.
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