In the case of the Italian Renaissance the decadence was not due to the same cause.
PAGE 68 The gradual decadence of the great period of Grecian sculpture is well marked by the successive variations of the Cnidian Aphrodite of Praxiteles.
But as soon as its freshness was exhausted there was nothing left for art to live on, and mere decadence to sensuality ensued.
These last mark the first distinct decadence in the small bronze art of the period.
It is noticeable that the decadence of a great art period is usually first marked by complications in sculptured figures.
The decadence began, according to Ruskin, with Raphael.
When time has given an added dignity (if that were possible) to this work, I can realise how our descendants will laugh at our lachrymose observations on the decadence of art.
The pivotal fact to be remembered is that these German tribes saved Europe by their love of liberty, and by their virility, from the decadence of an orientalized Rome.
There is no sign of the decadence of the aristocracy here.
From the "Grandeur and Decadenceof the Romans") II Of the Relation of Laws to Human Beings.
On the other hand, it is common to hear the kiva chief lament the decadence of its membership.
French settlements in the Indies to be taken, and this led to the rapid decadence of the great East India Company and its port.
The choir, dressed in glittering robes, was placed in the middle of the church, and these singers began to show the same fatal sign of decadence that we saw before in Rome and Greece.
He dates them in the time of Vespasian, in which the decadence which had begun with the later Hellenistic age is in the Roman fabrics still more strongly accentuated.
In the vases of the Decadencethey have for the most part fallen into disuse; at any rate, they are comparatively scarce.
These belong to the time of the decadence of the ceramic industry, i.
This was due to the regional Celtic taste of the inhabitants, or else to the marked signs of artdecadence in this part of Spain, when the Renaissance was introduced into the country.
It is Gothic, rich in its decoration, but showing here and there the decadence of the northern style.
Signs ofdecadence are unluckily to be observed in the cathedral to-day.
The two towers, high and slender, are among the best produced by the period of decadence in Spain which followed upon Herrero's severe style, if only the uppermost body lacked the circular linterna which makes the spire top-heavy.
Its history and its decadence are of the saddest; the latter serves in many respects as an adequate symbol of Spain's own tremendous downfall.
Consequently, it was believed by many that the same fate produced both accidents, and that the downfall of the one necessarily involved the decadence of the other.
The hackneyed expression to describe the decadence of an age is "that the civilians loved money and the soldiers feared death.
He sold part of the lands, evacuated the old cattle, where the family lived in their decadence as a mouse (said an old farmer) lives under a firlot.
The June passed into the harvest moon, October began to array herself in all the beautiful decadence of the year, and still his new pleasure had not palled upon Fauntleroy.
With the intellectual progress of the race there is a decadence of sexual instinct.
The skin also gives manifest signs of decadencein the form of wrinkles.
Grey hair is a normal sign of thedecadence of an organism which has entered upon its involution.
The deterioration and ignorance of the parochial clergy were amongst the most serious symptoms of the decadence of the fifteenth century.
This is no decadence because it has no aesthetic values to ameliorate it.
It was a wink and nod social contract, a co-ordinated robbery, and an orgy of degeneration, decadence and corruption attended by all the citizenry to varying degrees.
But the time was not progressive, and a gathering mental decadence was shown by the manner in which the Breviarium was treated and used, to wit, epitomized in many epitomes, and practically superseded by them.
And in this respect at least the decadence of scholasticism took its inception from this bold and virile mind which had small reverence for popes or for the idols of the schools.
It seems to have been tacitly understood that the institution was unfitted for German soil until a period when it had fairly entered into decadence in the lands where its growth was the rankest.
Imagination could scarcely furnish a more convincing proof of decadence than this exhibition of the successor of Bernard de Caux and Bernard Gui vainly endeavoring to defend his kitchen gear from the rapacious hands of his brethren.
But, taken as a whole, the level is surprisingly high, and even in the decadence classical models are sometimes imitated with no small degree of success.
Fine hymns were written even at a late time; but on a large part of the psalms the decadence has set its mark.
Fraser, typical of the next decade, and one might say, without undue severity, of the decadence also, and F.
The decadence of a vigorous movement is never a pleasant subject to record in detail.
This decadence of taste is strange when compared with the woollen work of Arachova.
