Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 33
at the manual and intellectual activitynecessary to the existence of art was concentrated. Architecture,sculpture, illumination, and painted glass during the Romanesqueperiod were so many blossoms of the cloister. The monasterypreserved the germs of the antique culture; it received and keptalive… … (.. JO. MSK OF NOTKi;DAMi;-Dl-I()RT, ATCLERMONT-FERRAND. of the ancient peristyle; the monks gown, his shaven face and closecroppcl head retained their Gallo-Roman cast among barbarianfashions. Even at the present day the oldmonasteries of Moissac, Toulouse andAries remind us what places of…
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