Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 185
sted on his elbow after themanner of an antique river-god,or knelt before a fald-stool.The face was still a portrait,but the figure was that of an impersonal hero. The monuments at Saint Denis demonstrate this transformationof sculpture very clearly. In order to pass from the Gothic worldto that of… … FIO. 334. —SCRFEN FROM ArC.EROLLES,IN THE CLl NY Ml SElM, PARIS. ttjLaS^.. ^m ^^^3 li- fl ■B^fKT /^^i ^ ■jQ ^^ ^^ssy \x ^ kings, and the royal insigniaadded little to the miserableprestige of the stone corpses.But in the sixteenth century,the king is not even repre-sented in the rigidity ofdeath;…
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