This style was the opposite of the styles used by da Vinci and Raphael , who tried to capture their subjects in a natural manner . ``The artists [of the Romanesque Period] did not concern themselves so much with an imitation of natural form in these manuscripts as much as with the arrangement of traditional sacred symbols . The symbols allowed the artists to depict the stories without illustrating actual scenes from them (``Art in the Crusades Era ) The Romanesque artists gave the...











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