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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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Chartres (xii and xiii Centuries). South transeptof the cathedral. expected the building to yield more than it could, be-cause he wanted to crowd too many people into it, asin Paris, where galleries press down on the four lateral
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Chartres (xii and xiii Centuries). Transept of the cathedral. 294 MEDIEVAL ART naves. The object of the s tamed glass was not todarken the nave but to glorify the light, whose glowscintillated with the richness of powdered jewels. Andthis glass was used not only in the churches but for therooms of the châteaux and for the houses of the middleclass. The memory of the carpets hung up in themosques filled the minds of the men, who were returningfrom the Orient, with visions transfigured by enthu-siasm and regret. They opened the side of the wall toset into it a translucent painting, a fresco shot throughby flames, illumined by the heavens. The stained glassoffered to the pale light of the north its flaming matrixso that the sun should give a warmer caress to thestone that rose everywhere. Its azures, its dark blues,its saffron and golden yellows, its oranges, its vinousor purple reds, and its dark greens streaked the navewith the blood of Christ and the sapphire of the sky,with the russ

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