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Art in France (1911)

Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 50

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elong to the ordinarycycle of Christian painting. In St. Julien at Brioude, there are remnants of a fading vision of Hell, conceived and pamtedby men who followed noByzantine tradition. A mon-strous Devil gambols in theflames surrounded by littleterrified figures, a barbarousand chaotic nightmare… … -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…

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