LA ILIADA
IF
Identity
Iceland
Ignatius
Idaho Falls
Illiad
IF
Identity
Iceland
Ignatius
Idaho Falls
Illiad
John 1:17
“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
"The main portal of Chartres is one of the most beautiful congregations of carved figures in the world [38]. The longer you look at it, the more moving incidents, the more vivid details you discover. I suppose the first thing that strikes anyone is the row of pillar people. In naturalistic terms, as bodies, they are impossible, and the fact that one believes in them is a triumph of art. Figures had been made into columns since the Cnidian treasury at Delphi, but never so narrowly compressed and elongated as they are here - except perhaps at St Denis, because there is evidence that the master who carved them had worked for Suger before he came on to Chartres. He was not only a sculptor of genius, but one of great originality. He must have begun carving when style was dominated by the violent twisting rhythms of Cluny and Toulouse; and he has created a style as still and restrained and classical as the Greek sculptors of the sixth century.
The man who carved the pillar of Souillac, although a great artist, cannot be called a representative of civilisation. We have no such doubts about the master-mason of Chartres. One can see that his classic style was a personal creation when one compares the figures by the master himself - all of them are in the central door - with those of his assistants who worked on the doors either side. They could follow the outline of his columnar figures, but when it came to draperies they reverted to the curls and spirals of southern Romanesque, which are meaningless in their new context, whereas the chief master's style is absolutely Greek in the simplicity and precision of every fold. Was it really Greek - I mean Greek in derivation? Were these reed-like draperies, the thin straight lines of the fluted folds, the zigzag hems, and the whole play of texture which so obviously recall a Greek archaic figure, arrived at independently? Or had the Chartres master seen some fragments of early Greek sculpture in the south of France? For various masons I am quite certain that he had."~~~Kenneth Clark: CIVILISATION. Ch.2 The Great Thaw
The man who carved the pillar of Souillac, although a great artist, cannot be called a representative of civilisation. We have no such doubts about the master-mason of Chartres. One can see that his classic style was a personal creation when one compares the figures by the master himself - all of them are in the central door - with those of his assistants who worked on the doors either side. They could follow the outline of his columnar figures, but when it came to draperies they reverted to the curls and spirals of southern Romanesque, which are meaningless in their new context, whereas the chief master's style is absolutely Greek in the simplicity and precision of every fold. Was it really Greek - I mean Greek in derivation? Were these reed-like draperies, the thin straight lines of the fluted folds, the zigzag hems, and the whole play of texture which so obviously recall a Greek archaic figure, arrived at independently? Or had the Chartres master seen some fragments of early Greek sculpture in the south of France? For various masons I am quite certain that he had."~~~Kenneth Clark: CIVILISATION. Ch.2 The Great Thaw
Chess: "IF" “Identity” “Iceland” “Ignatius” “Idaho Falls” "Illiad"
Phraseology:
-IF I were to go, I would be late.
-Even IF that's true, what should we do?
-She wil sing only IF she is paid.
-Ask IF he will come.
-IF she had only come earlier!
-IF she ever does that again!
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