106. ABBEY OF MONT ST. MICHEL. CLOISTERS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. CARVED ORNAMENT OF INTERIOR SPANDRILS
107. WOODEN STATUETTE (HEIGHT 23⅝ IN.) THIRTEENTH CENTURY. ATELIERS DE LA CHAISE DIEU, AUVERGNE
108. IVORY STATUETTE (HEIGHT 9⅞ IN.) THIRTEENTH CENTURY. SCHOOL OF PARIS
Thus the flora of our own fields was applied in lithic form to the elements of our church architecture. But the breadth proper to architectural sculpture was still preserved by means of ingenious combinations.
It was not until the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that the imitation of natural forms became servile, tedious, and over-minute, and that the beauty of the whole was sacrificed to exaggerated faithfulness of detail.[36]
[36] Anthyme St. Paul, Histoire Monumentale de la France; Paris, Hachette and Co., 1884.
108A. IVORY STATUETTE (HEIGHT 9½ IN.) FIFTEENTH CENTURY. SCHOOL OF PARIS