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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afts cut short: Constantineadorned his triumphal arch with reliefs from that ofTrajan : and the 70 columns of Bishop Namatiuss churchat Clermont, and Bishop Perpetuuss 120 at Tours wereno doubt rifled from Roman temples and other buildingsof Imperial times, and would have been put togetherwith something of the artless simplicity of the Temple deS. Jean though perhaps with a somewhat nearer approachto classic regularity. The influence of S. Front may, I think, be traced asfar as Poitiers, where the strange conical pyramids thatsurmount the two flanking turrets of the west front of thechurch of Notre Dame, bear a strong resemblance to thedomed top of the great campanile at P^rigueux, and theresemblance is even stronger in the quasi-cupola of thecentral tower (Plate C, p. 46). All three are coveredwith scaled masonry like the domes and tower of S. Front,and are very unlike anything farther east in France.The church itself is barrel-vaulted, with shallow transepts Ovoidpinnaclesandcupolas
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D O < CH. xix) FRANCE—AQUITAINE 57 and a lantern tower over the crossing. The west frontis richly arcaded, and covered with sculptures which arefull of interest, and though it cannot be said that thedetails show any trace of Byzantine influence there isabout the whole design a distinctive character, with atouch of orientalism that seems to mark it off from theRomanesque of the central and eastern provinces. Herehowever grotesque ornament plays a considerable part,derived from Normandy and the north rather than fromthe south, as has been already noticed at Souillac andLoches. S. Front again makes itself felt in the fa9ade of thecathedral of Angouleme (Plate CI 11), which is arcadedsomething like Notre Dame at Poitiers but on a granderscale, and has on its tv/o flanking towers what are halfspires and half cupolas, covered with scaling and sur-rounded by pinnacles which are miniature copies of thesteeple at Perigueux. The central cupola is alsodecorated with scaling like those at Pe

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