History of art (1921) (14782927752)

Identifier: historyofar02faur (find matches)
Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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48 MEDIAEVAL ART lands of naked bayaderes who await them at the endof their road, each one different and all the same,dancing yet almost motionless, as they mark the rhythmof the music that one guesses, the inner pulsation of the wave that runs throughthem. For the secondtime since the origin ofman, intellectual effortand the joy of the sensesseem to agree for the spaceof an hour. Furtive, nodoubt, and more sum-mary, but also fuller, moremusical, more clogged withmatter, heavier laden, andmoving against a back-ground of trees andflowers, the modeling ofGreece seems to suggestitself here and there. Thus, eternally balancedbetween its heroism andits sensuality, passing atevery moment and with-out transition from the ex-treme of moral love to theextreme of material intoxi-cation, from the highestaristocracy of culture tothe most impulsive satis-factions of instinct, the Indian soul wanders across livingforests of sentiment and system in search of the law.In its ensemble, and in spite of