Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 342
calm and mature like that with which Phidiasand his precursors affirmed their complete self-pos-session. Afterward, in France as in Greece, virtuosity—descriptive, naturalistic, and picturesque—gains theupper hand little by little. Doubtless, the essential CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMMUNE 315… … Rheims (xiii Century). Caryatid. (Cathedral.) idea to another idea, without leaving a trace by whichthe mind could follow the course that had been taken:it had to enter, with the sculptors, into the conscious-ness and the need of the universal harmony. WhenGothic sculpture seizes this balance, we…
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