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CHAPTER IX
THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE
Communication with Italy--Renaissance not sudden--Origin of the schools
of France and Burgundy--Touraine and its art--Fouquet--Brentano
MSS.--"Versailles" Livy--Munich "Boccaccio," etc.--Perr?al and
Bourdichon--"Hours of Anne of Brittany"--Poyet--The school of
Fontainebleau--Stained glass--Jean Cousin--Gouffier "Heures"--British
Museum Offices of Francis I.--Dinteville Offices--Paris "Heures de
Montmorency", "Heures de Dinteville," etc.
When the new ideas derived from the Italian revival first reached
France, it would be difficult to say. There must have been communication
with Italy going on the whole time that Cimabue and Giotto, Memmi and
the rest were astonishing their fellow-citizens with their divine
performances. The roads from Lyons, Poictiers, Dijon, and Paris were
well known, and frequently trodden by both artists and merchants as well
as by soldiers. The Renaissance, therefore, was no sudden convulsion.
Perhaps a very careful examination of some of our Burgundian MSS. might
reveal the presence of notions derived from Italian travel, for it is in
the details of ornament that we find the traces of a new movement, and
when the great change of style is clearly noticeable it is when the
habits of society themselves have been remodelled, and when the once
strange and foreign element has become a familiar guest.
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