This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...inferiority of sculpture and painting--Inadequate resources of these arts throughout the Middle Age--Comparative skill of Western and Byzantine artists--Progress, consequent upon the revival of architecture, from a Rude to a Severe style in the other arts--Relative share of laymen and ecclesiastics in the practice of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...inferiority of sculpture and painting--Inadequate resources of these arts throughout the Middle Age--Comparative skill of Western and Byzantine artists--Progress, consequent upon the revival of architecture, from a Rude to a Severe style in the other arts--Relative share of laymen and ecclesiastics in the practice of the arts--Position of the Church towards art--Spirit of the monkish artists--Influence of the Court next to that of the Church--Tradition of artistic training in monasteries; the Schedula of Theophilus--Other extant treatises--Division of subject according to technical var1eties and not according to nationality--Amid the unity of Christendom Germany at this period has the pre-eminence. We now enter upon the period of the " Romanesque " style, which opens towards the end of the tenth century and closes in the course of the thirteenth. This period of art coincides with the most momentous phenomena of mediaeval history, --the development of political life on a new foundation, that of feudalism--the culmination of the Imperial power, as an actually governing power in Germany, Italy, the Slav territories bordering upon Germany, and for a time also in the province of Burgundy, and as the highest secular authority in relation to all other Christian States, --the complete extrusion of the influence of the Byzantine Empire from the politics of the West, --the prodigious expansion of the power of the Church under the protection of the Empire--her internal reforms, and presently her uprising against the secular authority, --the momentous conflict between the spiritual and the temporal powers, --the daring aggression of the former, --the defeat of the latter, but her perpetual resistance notwithstanding defeat, a resistance drawing inexhaustible vitali...
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