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Dept. G-620 DAYTON, OHIO 
The largest manufacturers of domestic water supply systems in 
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reux, queen of 
France, a ISth 
Century frag¬ 
ment from the 
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Gothic Statuary as Decorations 
{Continued from page 88) 
ized by modern steel constructionists, 
who have found in it something ready 
made for their needs, something as 
logical as if it had been designed espe¬ 
cially for the building materials of the 
20 th Century. 
Not only this, but there is a powerful 
sentimental reason why there is more in¬ 
terest just now in things Gothic than 
there ever has been since Renaissance art 
took its place in the 15th and 16th Cen¬ 
turies. It reached its full flower in 
Northern France, right in the theatre 
of the titanic conflict betwen the kaiser 
and civilization, where it bore the brunt 
of combat and became a sort of symbol 
of suffering humanity, thus endearing 
itself to the hearts that stood steadfast 
against the powers of destruction. 
Though mutilated by shot and shell it 
emerged with new glory and new signi¬ 
ficance, its pure beauty expressing more 
to mankind than ever it had before. 
What Gothic Art Is 
Gothic art is an expression of aspira¬ 
tion. Its coming was coeval with the 
awakening of Europe from its long 
sleep of the Dark Ages. It is the art 
expression of this awakening and of hu¬ 
manity’s new freedom and its upward 
reach for enlightenment and liberty. 
The art of the Dark Ages—that in¬ 
choate period following the destruction 
of the ancient civilization of Greece and 
Rome—was a dead thing, merely a 
slavish copying of forms, the forms of 
classic art corrupted by the oriental in¬ 
fluences that had served to undermine 
the old civilization and make it an easy 
prey to Northern Barbarism. There 
was no life in the art of the Dark Ages. 
But the awakening of the minds of men 
that took place in the 12th and 13th 
Centuries stirred art to new endeavor, 
and there crystallized into the style 
known as Gothic. 
The Gothic sculptors took their models 
from life. They threw off the shackles 
of formalism. Instead of abstract de¬ 
signs and stilted figures that had been 
passed down from one generation of 
craftsmen to another throughout the 
whole period of Early Christian or 
Romanesque art, the creative geniuses 
of the revival took their motives from 
the objects about them. Trees, plants, 
fruits, animals and, above all, the hu¬ 
man form itself, were once more util¬ 
ized, just as they had been utilized in 
the awakening of Greek art (about 500 
B. C.), when the Hellenes threw off the 
long sleep of their own Dark Ages, that 
period of stupor that followed a great 
Pre-Historic Barbaric invasion. 
The analogy between the archaic art 
of old Greece, that preceded the Greek 
classic period, and the Gothic art of 
the 13th and 14th Centuries, that pre¬ 
ceded the glories of the Renaissance, is 
complete, because there is much physical 
as well as historical resemblance. There 
was a certain stiffness, to be sure, but it 
was life and freedom personified as 
compared with the art that preceded it. 
Romanesque art was not human, there 
was no smile in it. Byzantine saints 
{Continued on page 92) 
Carved wood 
and polychrome 
•statue of French 
Gothic work 
