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unate, supported bythe pretorians, was opposing Buddhism to the tradi-tional cult. Sculpture obeyed the laws of dissociation ^ M. Edouard Chavannes has already indicated the analogy that existsbetween the statues of Unkei and the guardians of the gates of the grottoesof Long-Men. See figures on… … Unkei (xii Century). Guardian of the temple.{VArt du Japon, publ. by Brunoff.) 114 MEDIEVAL ART dictated by the state of society. It overloaded itselfwith incrustations, complicated itself with draperies,and, when it lost the calm of its lines, it lost the wholeof its spirituality. It is only in…
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