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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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the man whohas fallen, and, to sustain him and carry him along, heintones a magnificent chant; his great severe lineundulates, rises, descends and reascends, like a voice.Profoundly Italian though his idealistic, dramatic,and decorative genius, and containing, although heepitomized only a single moment of Italy, the wholeItaly that was to come, even fallen Italy, the universalquality of humanity that Giotto possessed brings himinto communion with all the heroes of painting, throughthe piety with which he welcomed life, through thepassionate feeling he had for the burdens that it laidupon him, and through the divine desire that causedhim to transfigure the world and support the celestialblue of the half-opened paradise on the grave human THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 419 accents of the reds, the greens, and the blacks. . . .His hope never rose higher than his courage as a man.On the day when he re-assembled, around the crucifiedJesus, angels half emerging from heaven on their wings
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Pisa (xiv Century). The triumph of death, fresco.(Campo Santo.) made up of rays of light, he recovered the supremesymbol, that ^schylus had imagined, to fortify ourcourage when he saw in flight around Prometheus theswarm of the Oceanides. IV In itself, then, this work is a social monument whereinradiant painting groups sculptural volumes in an archi-tectural rhythm. When the man had disappeared, itcrumbled rapidly. Those who came after him could 420 MEDIiEVAL ART do no more than gather up the debris for the buildingof isolated edifices which, in the anarchy of the century,were only provisional sanctuaries, frail and exposed to

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