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 93
RELIGIOUS ART IN FRANCE came from some thermae or villa. The Church did not scruple to borrow pagan forms, and to hallow them by reading into them a Christian meaning. The sequence of the months became a reminder not only of the cycle of labour, but also of the cycle of the Christian year — the… … Fig. 31.— The Furriers (from a window at reflected that each of the months Chartres) corresponded to some event in the life of Christ or of some great saint. To him each month was marked not by common tasks but by a succession of heroic acts, and the year seemed like a garland of the virtues. The…
Christian art and symbolism · Art · Art, Medieval
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