How evident is the lowering of the divine standard! Their action is freer, no doubt, and the play of drapery is broader.

The rhubarb-stem plaits of the robes are fuller, and have some movement, but where is the grace as of a sculptured soul that we see in the royal porch?
All these statues, with their massive heads, are thick-set and mute, devoid of communicative life.

This is pious work--fine work, if you will--but devoid of the 'beyond'; here is art indeed, but it has ceased to be mysticism.
"Look at St.Anne with her gloomy expression, either cross or suffering--how far she is from the so-called Radegonde and Berthe! "With the exception of two, St.John and St.Joseph over there in the innermost part of the arch, these are familiar figures.

They also occur at Reims and at Amiens.

And do you remember the Simeon, the Virgin, and the St.Anne at Reims?
The Virgin so guilelessly charming, so exquisitely chaste, holding out the Infant to Simeon, who stands mild and devout in his solemn garb as High Priest.