Gothic Architecture

by Édouard Corroyer

114. WOODEN STATUETTE, PAINTED AND GILDED (HEIGHT 19¹¹/₁₆ IN.) FIFTEENTH CENTURY. SCHOOL OF BRUSSELS

115. WOODEN STATUETTE, PAINTED AND GILDED (HEIGHT 19¹¹/₁₆ IN.) SIXTEENTH CENTURY. SCHOOL OF MUNICH

These essentially French qualities they owe, primarily, of course, to the genius of their creators, but in a scarcely inferior degree to the fostering care of the maîtrises, institutions which only require a certain modification by the progressive leaven of today, to become models for the imitation of all whose function it is to develop national art.

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CHAPTER XII
PAINTING

The origin of painting dates from remote antiquity, and the art had already passed through many developments before it was applied by Gothic architects to the decoration of their buildings.