L'OCCIDENT MÉDIÉVAL, D'Aléric à Léonard 400-1450. Architecture – Paysage " Under Balzac's light

" Under Balzac's light

during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

January 1909

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Catalogue of the exhibition "Chaïm Soutine

L'OCCIDENT MÉDIÉVAL, D'Aléric à Léonard 400-1450. Architecture – Paysage " Under Balzac's lightPraised by the Romantics, scorned by the humanists, the Middle Ages are sometimes judged as a contemptible foil, sometimes considered as an invigorating source of inspiration and escape. But which Middle Ages are we talking about? The one that arose on the ruins of the Roman world, building an original society, a synthesis of ancient, Germanic and Christian heritages? The one of knights, peasants and clerics, with their imposing cathedrals that still