Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 91
pletely transformed by it. All theremote figures of the Gospel and ofthe Old Testament presented them-selves to the eyes of the faithful, not with that strangeness of aspectwhich kept the Romanesque figures in a fantastic, supernatural world,but with faces and bodies like those of living beings.… … Flo. 14..—THE t;ii.i)H) \iri;;n. SOITH DOOR OF THE CATHEDRAL OFAMIENS. COMMUNAL OR GOTHIC ART their violent personalities; they are the turbulent and furious vision-aries of the Bible, who, prior to the dawn of the serene radianceof the Gospel, sometimes illuminated their tempest of invective…
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