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Maurice Denis

Religious Sentiment in Medieval Art 

An address to the "Amis des cathédrales," 16 December, 1913 


Workshop of Filippo Lippi, c 1446-7


What is religious art?
Was the Mediaeval period particularly devout?

The positivism of the Western Middle Ages
Naivety of Medieval art
Against Platonist idealism

The art of the particular


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