Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 286
antium, it was becauseByzantium was not a beginning, but an end, a rottenfruit of the Greek tree. But it was idolatry whichmade Egypt and Greece and India, which unchainedthe great Gothic revolution and the Italian and FlemishRenaissance, and which, later, at the threshold of ourown time, aroused… … Persia (xvi Century). Carpet, fragment. external nature surrender to them the inexhaustibletreasure of her teachings in order that they may givereality to the images that are within them. We cannotdemand that humanity live in the desert forever. 260 MEDIEVAL ART when we see that even the peoples of…
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