Religious art in France, XIII century; a study in mediaeval iconography and its sources of inspiration (1913)
Mâle, Emile, 1862-1954, Nussey, Dora · London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 409
, bishops, abbots, move heavenwards mingling with the crowd of holy souls. At Bourges a king with a flower in his hand expresses the union of kingliness and holiness— a pleasing figure inspired no doubt by the memory of St. Louis who had lately died. It is not a portrait, but the ideal image of the… … Fig. i86. — Last Judgment. 'I he j:i.ect (liourges) that at Bourges and Le Mans (church ot Notre Dame de la Couture) a Franciscan with the thrice-knotted girdle of rope walks with the king at the head of the procession of the elect ^ (Fig. i86). There is no doubt that at the end of the thirteenth…
Christian art and symbolism · Art · Art, Medieval
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