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‘Around 1250, Parisian court painting acquired many of the characteristics of the sculptural style of the Joseph Master and the sculpture of the Sainte Chapelle. Almost all traces of the “muldenstil”* finally disappeared, and was replaced by a type of “broad-fold” drapery, soft and voluminous, which hangs rather than clings, and which tends to fall in the V-shaped folds already familiar in sculpture. At the same time, figures tend to become daintier, and faces in particular lose the roundness and substance of previous work and become somewhat pallid essays in minute virtuoso penmanship. All these features are visible in a Psalter done for Louis IX himself (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; MS. Lat. 10525) and in a number of other books executed in Paris around this time.

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*[See [Redbook8:314][19910307:1718]{Gothic Art}[7th March 1991]]

**[– ibid (Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4: 605-607)]

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