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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Peru. Painted vases. (British Museum.) and contorted into infernal attitudes, but already theymanifest a persistent demand for balance and for archi-tectural rhythm. Must we not, therefore, see, as thedominating influence in them, the majestic landscapeswhere the activity of the Maoris took place and theeffort put forth by the people to maintain that activity.^They had passed beyond the dangerous region of thetropical zone. The perpetual spring no longer ener-vated them. Their islands, like those of Japan, ran the 184 MEDIEVAL ART gamut of climate from that of Italy to that of Scotland.They placed their villages beside the opal lakes set incups of lava, that are surrounded by cold springs andboiling geysers, under the shelter of immense mountains
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Peru. Vase, terra cotta. (British Museum.) where active volcanoes alternate with glaciers that de-scend to the sea; and when the Maoris followed theirpine-bordered streams they came upon fiords that re-flected the forests and the snows in the shadowy massesof that southern ocean in which no human face had everseen its image. A great civilization, a great art, couldand should have been born there. The mats woven of THE TROPICS 185 phormium, hanging at the doors of the huts, shonewith burning colors; the rocks were covered with fres-coes in which the blue of the ice and the lakes livedagain; the villages, built all of wood, with their sturdyhouses whose roofs have a steep slope and with their

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