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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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WÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊMoissAC (xii Century). Abacus of a capital of the cloister. were contained within the four walls of a monastery,in old manuscripts thumbed by the hard men whoopposed the necessary counterpoise of the Rule, tothe frightful impulses of a world that had fallen backto the primitive state. But it was around these walls,in these out-of-the-way valleys, away from the greathighways which saw the massacres that, here andthere, the people of the countryside were assemblingto shape the future. The north of Gaul during theMerovingian period had no other centers of activity inthe chaos of manners, races, and languages that hov-
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Elne (Pyrénées-Orientales) (xii Century). Belfry of the church. 268 MEDIAEVAL ART ered over this agony of the burning cities and theruined harvests. In the south, on the contrary, tradition was stillprofoundly alive. The aqueducts, the arenas, the ther-mae, and the temples were still erect in the landscapethat is silvered by the forests of olive trees. The amphi-theaters still opened their pure curve to the light. Thesculptured sarcophagi were in their accustomed place,bordering the roads shaded by the plane trees that arewhitened by winter when it despoils them of theirleaves and that remain white under the dust of summer.On this burnt earth of southern France, which outlinesitself against the sky with the sure lines that one findsagain beside the bays of Greece, Gallo-Roman artunited quite naturally the positivism of Rome, Hel-lenic elegance, and the fresh vitality of the Gauls. Itdeclined but little, if at all, upon the passage of theArabs, who were adopted by this burning soil.

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