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I'm in the Gothic world. The world of chivalry, courtesy and romance. A world in which serious things were done with a sense of play. Where even war and theology could become a sort of game. And when architecture reached a point of extravagance unequalled in history. After all the great unifying convictions of the 12th century, high Gothic art what Marxists call "conspicuous waste". And yet, these centuries produced some of the greatest spirits in the whole history of man, amongst them St Francis of Assisi and Dante. Behind all the fantasies of Gothic imagination, there remained, on two different planes, a sharp sense of reality. Medieval man could see things very clearly. But he believed that these appearances should be considered as nothing more than symbols or tokens of an ideal order which was the only true reality. The fantasy strikes us first. A charming example is this series of tapestries known as the Lady With The Unicorn, one of the last and most seductive examples of the Gothic spirit. It is po

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I'm in the Gothic world. The world of chivalry, courtesy and romance. A world in which serious things were done with a sense of play. Where even war and theology could become a sort of game. And when architecture reached a point of extravagance unequalled in history. After all the great unifying convictions of the 12th century, high Gothic art what Marxists call "conspicuous waste". And yet, these centuries produced some of the greatest spirits in the whole history of man, amongst them St Francis of Assisi and Dante. Behind all the fantasies of Gothic imagination, there remained, on two different planes, a sharp sense of reality. Medieval man could see things very clearly. But he believed that these appearances should be considered as nothing more than symbols or tokens of an ideal order which was the only true reality. The fantasy strikes us first. A charming example is this series of tapestries known as the Lady With The Unicorn, one of the last and most seductive examples of the Gothic spirit. It is po

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I'm in the Gothic world. The world of chivalry, courtesy and romance. A world in which serious things were done with a sense of play. Where even war and theology could become a sort of game. And when architecture reached a point of extravagance unequalled in history. After all the great unifying convictions of the 12th century, high Gothic art what Marxists call "conspicuous waste". And yet, these centuries produced some of the greatest spirits in the whole history of man, amongst them St Francis of Assisi and Dante. Behind all the fantasies of Gothic imagination, there remained, on two different planes, a sharp sense of reality. Medieval man could see things very clearly. But he believed that these appearances should be considered as nothing more than symbols or tokens of an ideal order which was the only true reality. The fantasy strikes us first. A charming example is this series of tapestries known as the Lady With The Unicorn, one of the last and most seductive examples of the Gothic spirit. It is po

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I'm in the Gothic world. The world of chivalry, courtesy and romance. A world in which serious things were done with a sense of play. Where even war and theology could become a sort of game. And when architecture reached a point of extravagance unequalled in history. After all the great unifying convictions of the 12th century, high Gothic art what Marxists call "conspicuous waste". And yet, these centuries produced some of the greatest spirits in the whole history of man, amongst them St Francis of Assisi and Dante. Behind all the fantasies of Gothic imagination, there remained, on two different planes, a sharp sense of reality. Medieval man could see things very clearly. But he believed that these appearances should be considered as nothing more than symbols or tokens of an ideal order which was the only true reality. The fantasy strikes us first. A charming example is this series of tapestries known as the Lady With The Unicorn, one of the last and most seductive examples of the Gothic spirit. It is po

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I'm in the Gothic world. The world of chivalry, courtesy and romance. A world in which serious things were done with a sense of play. Where even war and theology could become a sort of game. And when architecture reached a point of extravagance unequalled in history. After all the great unifying convictions of the 12th century, high Gothic art what Marxists call "conspicuous waste". And yet, these centuries produced some of the greatest spirits in the whole history of man, amongst them St Francis of Assisi and Dante. Behind all the fantasies of Gothic imagination, there remained, on two different planes, a sharp sense of reality. Medieval man could see things very clearly. But he believed that these appearances should be considered as nothing more than symbols or tokens of an ideal order which was the only true reality. The fantasy strikes us first. A charming example is this series of tapestries known as the Lady With The Unicorn, one of the last and most seductive examples of the Gothic spirit. It is po

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I'm in the Gothic world. The world of chivalry, courtesy and romance. A world in which serious things were done with a sense of play. Where even war and theology could become a sort of game. And when architecture reached a point of extravagance unequalled in history. After all the great unifying convictions of the 12th century, high Gothic art what Marxists call "conspicuous waste". And yet, these centuries produced some of the greatest spirits in the whole history of man, amongst them St Francis of Assisi and Dante. Behind all the fantasies of Gothic imagination, there remained, on two different planes, a sharp sense of reality. Medieval man could see things very clearly. But he believed that these appearances should be considered as nothing more than symbols or tokens of an ideal order which was the only true reality. The fantasy strikes us first. A charming example is this series of tapestries known as the Lady With The Unicorn, one of the last and most seductive examples of the Gothic spirit. It is po