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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 56

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m to the highest idealism. When onesees them isolated one notes the special quality of thefigures, especially the figures of women, innumerable,gentle, religious, and yet formidable in their grace,their sensuality, their carnal heaviness. At everymoment they give evidence of the… … Delhi (xii Century). Jain Colonnade. {Mosque of Koutah.) 30 MEDIEVAL ART forms and the single wave of the muscles as a move-ment surges through the whole body. But this hymnto the more tender forms of beauty is lost in the clamorof the universe. At one and the same time he can

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