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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 341

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«»^^ Rampillon (Seine-et-Marne) (xiiiCentury). Detail of the base. 314 MEDIAEVAL ART This social character defines French sculpture.When we see it from our distance, to be sure, when wesee it in its ensemble from the twelfth to the fifteenthcentury, it strongly recalls the progression of theschools… … Rouen (xiii Century). Base and shafts of a door of thecathedral. with their passage through a point of equilibriumwherein science and sentiment, rising to their loftiestcertitude, shine from the same focus. Romanesqueart has the smiling strength and the rhythmical stiffnessof the sixth century of…

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