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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though in the arcadesthe round arch has given way to the pointed (Fig. 96).Flat pilasters, fluted, carry the nave arches and form thesides of the piers ; flat fluted pilasters in front of them risethrough triforium and clerestory to carry the transverseribs of the vaults. Smaller pilasters, flat and fluted likethe others divide the round-headed arches of the triforium.A heavy stringcourse carved with simple rosettes likethose at V^zelay and Avallon, runs below the triforium,and a smaller one above it is studded with round pellets.Of the capitals some are composed of foliage, twisted, re-verted and tied, but many are storied with figure subjects.The bases are Attic in section and tolerably correct. The aisles are cross-groined with transverse ribs butno diagonals. The nave barrel vault springs so lowdown that there is only room for very small clerestorywindows, as has been explained already (v. p. 99), andthe church is consequently very dark. There is no CH. xxii) FRANCE—BURGUNDY 109
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AITTUMCATHEDRA! Fig. 96. no FRANCE—BURGUNDY (CH. XXII Autun Portal andporch ambulatory, or chevet of chapels, but the church finisheslike a basilica with three simple apses at the ends of thechoir and its aisles. There are shallow transepts and acentral tower over the crossing. At the west end is one of the fine porches (Fig. 97)characteristic of Burgundy, but instead of being enclosedlike the narthex at Cluny and that still existing atVezelay the front stands open with arches to the street,a difference which expresses that between Cluny andVezelay which were regular establishments, and Autunwhich was a cathedral and secular. The narthex has acentral nave and an aisle on each side like the others ;all are vaulted, the nave with a semi-circular barrel vaulton transverse ribs that spring from attached columns.Under this porch or narthex a magnificent flight ofsteps reaching from side to side rises with dignity to theportals of the church\ The central doorway resemblesthe great portal

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