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‘So we come back to the only real failure of Gothic art: it never achieved an intellectual dimension*.... Gothic artists generated no discernible body of theory** suitable for propagation by educated laymen;*** ****|they possessed no sanctions derived from some remote or venerable past. Nor, in spite of their respect for tradition, did they develop s sense of their own history.|**** These things were not essential for the production of good art and architecture, but from c[irca] 1500[ce] onwards# their existence #* was to be more and more taken for granted.’

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#I[nner] C[ircle] 4^th Quarter?

#*{cf IX. [] 293

#**– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4: 620]

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