Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 184
ad come to Franceas early as the reign of Charles VIII, inter-mingled their ornamental style with that ofmonuments, the figures of which remainedpurely Gothic. But very soon these figuresthemselves began to cast aside their pecu-liarities of costume and phjsiognomy, general-ising, idealising, and… … FlC. T;i_^. — SKELETON IN THECHlRCH OF SALNT ETIENNE AT BAR-LE-Dlf. LIGIER-RICHIER. (Photo. Laurent.) ART IN FRANCE Around royal or princelysarcophagi arose beautiful alle-gorical figures clad in those con-ventional draperies known asantique, which reveal the formof the body. The recumbentfigure…
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