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72 FRANCE PROVENCE[CH. xxcentred. And thus it is that we find in theseContrastexclusivelybetween . .- .. .. . . .rornament buildings a singular mixture of motives, the ornamentstatuary being based on Gallo-Roman example with little or notrace of oriental feeling, while the statuary bears theimpress of Byzantium and the East.While however the artists of the i ith and 1 2 centuries"went to school," as Viollet-le-Duc well putsit 1 to,Byzantine art in order to learn the craft of figureornament, they soon got beyond mere copying, andintroduced their own ideas, and breathed the breath oflife into their work. These figures at Aries and S. Gillesare no mere conventional saints, but are beginning toshow already that individualityand character whichmakes them portraits,and this element grew strongerin each successive generation,till it culminated in theintensely living sculpture of the I3th and I4th centuries.France isperhaps not so rich in cloisters as England,and in the north, at all events, has nothing to showcomparable to those of Canterbury or Gloucester. Butin the south, especially in Provence, there are fineexamples, very unlike ours, but beautiful and interesting.Cloister, s, The best of them isperhaps that of S. Trophime atrop ime ^ rjes (pi ate CVII), which owing to the declivity of thesite stands high above the church floor and is reachedby a considerable flight of stairs. The north and eastwalks are Romanesque, of the isth century, and the othertwo sides have been re-built in late Gothic times. Butthough their arcades are of the I5th and i6th centuriesthe outer wall even of these sides seems to be of the1Les statuaires du XI I e siecle en France commencent par alter ddes Byzantins. II faut avant tout apprendre le z/^r...cependant Partisteoccidental ne pouvant s'astreindre & la reproduction hie'ratique des qu'il saitson me'tier, regard autour de lui. Diet. Rats. art. " Sculpture." The wholeof the article is excellent