Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . nciple in church architecture : though S. Front alonehas adopted the plan of a Byzantine church as well as thedomical covering. The supposition that the architects and their assistantswere Frenchmen and not Italians or Greeks is confirmedby the character of the carving at Perigueux which is muchmore Romanesque than Byzantine, while that at Venice De Verneilh mentions Rue des V^enetiens, Porte de Venise, Eperonde Venise, at Limoges, and says that the ruins of the Venetian houseswere to be seen as late as 1638. VArchitecture Byzantine en Fiance. 38 FRANCE—
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . nciple in church architecture : though S. Front alonehas adopted the plan of a Byzantine church as well as thedomical covering. The supposition that the architects and their assistantswere Frenchmen and not Italians or Greeks is confirmedby the character of the carving at Perigueux which is muchmore Romanesque than Byzantine, while that at Venice De Verneilh mentions Rue des V^enetiens, Porte de Venise, Eperonde Venise, at Limoges, and says that the ruins of the Venetian houseswere to be seen as late as 1638. VArchitecture Byzantine en Fiance. 38 FRANCE—AQUITAINE [CH. XIX Peculiarityof Frenchdomes if not imported from Constantinople was certainly cut byGreek chisels. It is confirmed also by the peculiar use made of thedomes in other churches of this district, where they aretreated rather as mere vaults, often repeated severaltimes in a row, instead of forming a central dominantfeature like the single domes of Salonica and Constanti-nople round which the church was squarely grouped ;. Fig. 76. nor are they raised on drums or pierced with windows asin the later Byzantine examples, but are often like othervaults covered with wooden roofs, making no showexternally. At Souillac, Le Puy, and Angouleme a singlecupola emerges as a lantern above the crossing ; the restare concealed by the roof At Solignac, Cognac, and CH. xix] FRANCE—AOUITAINE 39 Fontevrault the domes are all hidden, and the most s. Front, , -1 • r r T~> • -I- Perigueux strikmg feature 01 a Byzantme exterior disappears. S. Front however is an exception in this respect, forthe domes are treated very architecturally on the outside,constructed of ashlar and crowned with finials^ (Fig- 7^)-As Justinian determined when re-building S. Sophia afterthe fire to have nothing combustible about it, so thebuilders of S. Front excluded from the constructionanything that would burn, and the whole church is roofedin solid stone. At the west end, over the Latin church,is a g
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