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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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Arles (xii and xiii Centuries). Façade of Saint-Trophime, detail. person the work for which he was best fitted. It wasan association of strong corporations representingevery stratum of society, wherein individual tempera-ments obeyed no other rules than those of the spon-taneous harmony we see in the woods—made up of ahundred thousand trees which plunge into the samesoil, are watered by the same rains and fertilized by thesame winds. The Commune entered history with apower that gives it that character of necessity whichwe now recognize as the Greek miracle and theJewish miracle. The art, formidable and one thatexpressed it, was born with it in France, and died withit there. It was the French soul delivered into its own
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Saint-Genou (Indre) (xii Century). Ca))itals of the nave. 282 MEDIiEVAL ART keeping for the first and the last time. The peopleswhom it penetrated with its vitalizing force couldaccept it and adapt it to their needs—they could nottouch its inner principle without, at the same time,ruining its national and social significance. Betweenthe Vosges, the English Channel, and the Loire it wasreally life, order, truth. It was the barn and thefarm and the house of the cities which silhouetted thelacework of its carving and its pinnacles against thesky, the narrow house of earth and of wood borderingthe round-backed bridges and the tortuous lanes. Itwas the thick wall that bit into the rock, the high wallas clear-cut as consciousness, the haughty refuge thatdominated the sea, the egoistic abbey where slow liveswore away, to the rhythm of the hours of the churchservices. It was the little country church aroundwhich a few huts were gathered at the foot of thecurtain wall under the dungeon that,

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