Identifier: byzantineromanes02jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e, andconsequently have no thrust, being formed by a systemof corbelling. But all the same there can be little doubtthat they were inspired by Byzantine tradition, forthey belong to that side of France in which alone thetrue dome is found, and in which its appearance can betraced to the commercial connexion which we knowexisted between those provinces and Venice and theEast. Sculpture does not play so large a part in the churchesof Aquitaine as in those of Provence or Burgundy. Thecapitals at S. Front are remotely derived from Corinthianas is the case in all early work, but though the church isbuilt on Byzantine lines the carving is singularly freefrom Greek feeling and is based more on Roman types.Of figure sculpture in this province there is compara-tively little during the Romanesque period. At Poitiers(Plate C) the fa9ade of the church of Notre Dame hasfigure sculpture in the niches and spandrels, and the frontof Angouleme is still more elaborately covered with figure Plate XCIX i
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