Image from page 50 of "Art in France" (1911) by Internet Archive Book Images
<b>Identifier</b>: artinfranc00hour
<b>Title</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidartinfranc00hour">Art in France</a>
<b>Year</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1911">1911</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1910">1910s</a>)
<b>Authors</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorHourticq__Louis__1875_1944">Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944</a>
<b>Subjects</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectArt">Art</a>
<b>Publisher</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherNew_York___Scribner">New York : Scribner</a>
<b>Contributing Library</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorRobarts___University_of_Toronto">Robarts - University of Toronto</a>
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<b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b>
<i>-HEROD S FEAST. CAPITAL FROM SAINT-ETIEN.NE. TOULOUSE MUSEUM. who felt themselves in the claws47, 48.) The sculpture of the twelfth century, like the architecture of thesame period, is marked by a charac-teristic peculiarity, in that it was anart at once very ancient and verynovel, an art of primitives strugglingv.-ith material as yet unsubdued, yet adecadent art, in which antiquatedforms and superannuated customs stillsurvived. It combines a strangerudeness with subtle refinements. Itis awkward and contorted, becausefor the most part the twelfth centurysculptors simplv transposed into reliefwhat Byzantine artists had designedfor painting. Antique statuary, a pagan art,had disappeared completelv togetherwith the worship of which it hadbeen an accessory. Statuarv intro-duces concrete beings; it is the art ofidolatry; painting is but an illusion,and lends itself less to a confusion of the divinitv and his image.Nevertheless, in certain districts where the antique civilisation had 29</i>
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<i>FIG. 6o. JESUS GIVING AUTHORITY TO THE APOSTLES. TV^fPAVUM OF THETHURCH OF VezELAY. ART IN FRANCE</i>
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