THE ROMANESQUE STYLE C. IOOO-C. I2OO

been the greatest achievement of Classical Antiquity. In the days of
S. Apollinare Nuovo it had all but disappeared. There is no large-
scale Carolingian figure sculpture either. Only during the nth
century, when the plastic sense returned to church architecture, it
reappeared; only towards its end did it begin to produce work of
an aesthetic standard equalling that of the buildings themselves, and
only centuries later did it gain independence from architecture.

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