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ONE OF THE RADIATING EAST CHAPELS OF B.HEIMS CATHEDRAL. FROM
VILLARD DE HONNECOURT'S TEXTBOOK, <T. 1235.

were represented in the scene on the Mount of Olives (fig. 23), all
these evidently for stone carvers to work from. He also drew figures
of Pride and Humility, the Church Triumphant and the Wheel of
Fortune. But there are worldly scenes too, wrestlers (fig. 22), men on
horseback, a king with his retinue. Then there are many animals,
some surprisingly realistic, others quite fantastic. There are simple
geometrical schemes for drawing human heads and animals. He
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