Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 244
ns consciousness, to reconcentrate the energyscattered piecemeal over all the pathways of the mindby the decadence of Hellas. The Byzantine idols haveregained the immobility of the statues which, beforethe time of Myron and Phidias, characterized the con-centration of all Hellenic effort as it… … 218 MEDIAEVAL ART the calm of the Dorians and the smile of the lonianshave left them. A dread anxiety dwells in their fixedeyes and around them; instead of the great daylightand the limpid space, there accumulates, in the dark-ness of the chapels, those magic phosphorescences thatsteal over heaps…
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