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Maurice Denis

New Directions in Christian Art 
an address to the Revue des Jeunes,
February, 1919

The Basilique de Notre-Dame de Brebières, Albert, Somme, France during the First World War - featuring on top of the tower the statue of the Golden Virgin (see the very end of the article)

Causes for hope
 Influence of the devil
The Church as a theatre
 'Honeyed, languorous things' 
Seeds of renewal
 Symbolism
Towards the Atelier d'art sacré
 

The full text can be downloaded in Word format here

Homage to Albert Gleizes, Politics and Theology, Poems

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