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<b>Identifier</b>: artinfranc00hour <b>Title</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidartinfranc00hour">Art in France</a> <b>Year</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1911">1911</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1910">1910s</a>) <b>Authors</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorHourticq__Louis__1875_1944">Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944</a> <b>Subjects</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectArt">Art</a> <b>Publisher</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherNew_York___Scribner">New York : Scribner</a> <b>Contributing Library</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorRobarts___University_of_Toronto">Robarts - University of Toronto</a> <b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorUniversity_of_Toronto">University of Toronto</a> <b>View Book Page</b>: <a href="https://archive.org/stream/artinfranc00hour/artinfranc00hour#page/n50/mode/1up" rel="nofollow">Book Viewer</a> <b>About This Book</b>: <a href="https://archive.org/details/artinfranc00hour" rel="nofollow">Catalog Entry</a> <b>View All Images</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidartinfranc00hour">All Images From Book</a> Click here to <a href="https://archive.org/stream/artinfranc00hour/artinfranc00hour#page/n50/mode/1up" rel="nofollow"><b>view book online</b></a> to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. <b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b> <i>-HEROD S FEAST. CAPITAL FROM SAINT-ETIEN.NE. TOULOUSE MUSEUM. who felt themselves in the claws47, 48.) The sculpture of the twelfth century, like the architecture of thesame period, is marked by a charac-teristic peculiarity, in that it was anart at once very ancient and verynovel, an art of primitives strugglingv.-ith material as yet unsubdued, yet adecadent art, in which antiquatedforms and superannuated customs stillsurvived. It combines a strangerudeness with subtle refinements. Itis awkward and contorted, becausefor the most part the twelfth centurysculptors simplv transposed into reliefwhat Byzantine artists had designedfor painting. Antique statuary, a pagan art,had disappeared completelv togetherwith the worship of which it hadbeen an accessory. Statuarv intro-duces concrete beings; it is the art ofidolatry; painting is but an illusion,and lends itself less to a confusion of the divinitv and his image.Nevertheless, in certain districts where the antique civilisation had 29</i> <b>Text Appearing After Image:</b> <i>FIG. 6o. JESUS GIVING AUTHORITY TO THE APOSTLES. TV^fPAVUM OF THETHURCH OF VezELAY. ART IN FRANCE</i> <b>Note About Images</b> <i>Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.</i>