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([Early Gothic]* Churches in France c[irca]1150[ce])

‘Secondly, it is the beginning of a general development towards greater humanity in figure sculpture. Not all the Chartres west-end sculpture could be called life-like, but the figure of Christ in the centre is strikingly more humane than previous representations of Christ, as at Vézelay or Moissac. This development towards greater humanity is one of the keys to sculpture of the following century. It is not a smooth, even development, but a succession of stylistic fashions with different antecedents and starting points. The result was a series of changes which by any pre-19th-century standards would be regarded as rapid.’

– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 597-600

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