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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
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s, 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 Perigueux, and so isthe cupola of the Abbaye des Dames at Saintes\ On asmaller scale ovoid pinnacles of this kind, covered withsimilar ornament, occur in the fa9ade at Civray and thereis something of the same kind in the quaint and im-perfect front at S. Junien (Fig. 84). Central towers in the form of lanterns over domes either westernon pendentives or squinches prevail in most of the churchesthat have been mentioned in this district. But there areseveral instances of a western tower. S. Radegonde at Poitiers,Poitiers has had the nave re-built in the 13th or 14th cen- gondetury, but retains a fine Romanesque tower at the westend, square below, octagonal above, and on the angleswhere the two parts meet triangular pinnacles like the ^ Illustrated by V.-le-Duc, Diet. Rats. vol. ni. p. 305. 58 FRANCE—AQUITAINE (ch. xix
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Fig. 84. CH. xix) FRANCE—AQUITAINE 59 ears at the corners of a sarcophagus. S. Porchaire in the s. Por-same city has a fine though incomplete tower at the westend. On the amusing capitals of the doorway the sculptorhas represented two animals, which for the benefit ofthose of us less conversant than himself with such fearfulwild-fowl he has considerately told us are lions. On theadjoining capital it is interesting to see the two birds

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  • bookyear:1913
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Jackson__Thomas_Graham__Sir__1835_1924
  • booksubject:Architecture__Byzantine
  • booksubject:Architecture__Romanesque
  • bookpublisher:Cambridge__University_Press
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  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:115
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