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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 511

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ed in the heads, which are even more desti-tute of character and expression than are those of the contemporaryworks of Northern France. The school of Toulouse, despite its inferior basis, had higheraims. Of its original Byzantine characteristics it retained only thetechnical training and manner of… … i Mm* Byzantine art did not even aspire. This is evident in the histori-cal representations upon the capitals of the cloister at Moissac, builtabout i ioo, and those of the cloister of St. Sernin at Toulouse,dating to 1150 {Fig. 290). To these may be added the sculpturesof the portal of the Convent…

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