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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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Unkei (xii Century). Guardian of the temple.(VArt du Japon, publ. by Brunoff.) 114 MEDIEVAL ART dictated by the state of society. It overloaded itselfwith incrustations, complicated itself with draperies,and, when it lost the calm of its lines, it lost the wholeof its spirituality. It is only in the seventeenth cen-tury, when the painted wooden effigies of monks wereerected, that among the severe profiles united by
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Sesson (died 1495). Dragon. (From The KoJcka.) fleeting pa sages which envelop them with strengthand security, the sculptors found again a little of theradiance of the seated Buddhas whose peaceful coun-tenances had for eight hundred years bent over thefaithful, and whose fingers, raised in their pure gesture,had taught them wisdom. Painting, on the contrary, would not have existedwithout the invasion. The Japanese soul, which hadlost its basis of religion and to which Toba-Sojo hadprematurely given a basis of popular life, was gettingaway from its course and becoming anaemic in the serv-ice of the nobles. With the Tosa school, founded inthe thirteenth century by Tsunetaka, who claimed torepresent the art of the ancient archaic master, Mote-

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