History of art . f the MiddleAges to establish over the whole of Europe one of thedensest and yet one of the most coherent and deeply 378 MEDIAEVAL ART rooted civilizations in history—their obscure solidarity—was now suddenly expanding as if the life of a too-powerful body had burst its armor, as if its blood, itsglance, and its thought were spreading on all sidesthrough the rifts in the metal. The Portuguese archi-tects were already asking the great mariners, who werecolonizing Africa and India, to tell them how the In-dians decorated their temples, and to bring back tothem from their voyages
History of art . f the MiddleAges to establish over the whole of Europe one of thedensest and yet one of the most coherent and deeply 378 MEDIAEVAL ART rooted civilizations in history—their obscure solidarity—was now suddenly expanding as if the life of a too-powerful body had burst its armor, as if its blood, itsglance, and its thought were spreading on all sidesthrough the rifts in the metal. The Portuguese archi-tects were already asking the great mariners, who werecolonizing Africa and India, to tell them how the In-dians decorated their temples, and to bring back tothem from their voyages the things that they wouldgroup in the last flowerings of Moorish art and of ogivalart: keels, anchors, cables, the fauna and flora of theseas, octopuses, madripores, corals, and shells. . Theconquest of the sea and the sky was to cause the spiritto leap when once it was stripped of its ancient beliefs,and bring it to the threshold of new intuitions wherenew beliefs elaborate themselves little by Ypres
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