History of mediæval art . with the extrados of the subsidiary arches, replacing the circular structure ofthe Church of St. John atLiege, built by BishopNotker in 981, exhibitssimilar reminiscences, not-withstanding its recon-struction in the rococostyle of the eighteenthcentury. The choir ofthe nuns in the westerntower of the RomanicChurch of St. Mary of theCapitol in Cologne, whichwas dedicated in 1050, dis-plays the same influence,one of its arches, nowhidden by the organ, hav-ing columns arranged likethose of the Minster ofAix-la-Chapelle. Theclosest resemblance to theplan of
History of mediæval art . with the extrados of the subsidiary arches, replacing the circular structure ofthe Church of St. John atLiege, built by BishopNotker in 981, exhibitssimilar reminiscences, not-withstanding its recon-struction in the rococostyle of the eighteenthcentury. The choir ofthe nuns in the westerntower of the RomanicChurch of St. Mary of theCapitol in Cologne, whichwas dedicated in 1050, dis-plays the same influence,one of its arches, nowhidden by the organ, hav-ing columns arranged likethose of the Minster ofAix-la-Chapelle. Theclosest resemblance to theplan of the minster isthe polygonal church ofOttmarsheim, near Muehl-hausen, in Elsass, whichdates from the same peri-od as the last-mentionedchurch of Cologne {Figs. 115 and 116). On the other hand, the Church of St. Germigny - les - Pres inthe Department of Loiret, which is mentioned in the tenth cen-tury as an imitation of the Carolingian court church, differs fromit in many respects, and by its cruciform plan rather resembles. Fig. 114.—Restored View of the Choir of the Nunsin the Abbey Church of Essen. ARCHITECTURE. 223 the ecclesiastical edifices of Byzantium. This building, erected by-Bishop Theodulph of Orleans during the lifetime of Charlemagne,has a double interest, be-ing the prototype of in Perigueux, andof other buildings ofFrance which are of thispeculiar disposition, anddisplaying in the apsesof the transepts an ar-rangement of plan sim-ilar to that which ap-pears fully developed inthe Church of the Apos-tles and in that of of the Capitol inCologne. The many churchesand cloisters which werebuilt during the epoch ofCharlemagne were gener-ally imitated from Italianand more especially Ro-man models. This wasthe case with the twomost important Frenchconvents of that time—Centula (St. Riquier) inPicardy, and Fontanel-lum (Vandrille) in Nor-mandy, both enlarged andreconstructed by friendsof the emperor: the for-mer by Angilbert, the lat-ter by Ansegius. T
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