. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. FlG. 114.—Saint-Front, at Perigueux, showing cupolas. Ion of Liege, and a few others, the Romanesque ar-tists preferred leaving monuments to names. As may be gathered from the above, Romanesquearchitecture was essentially a monastic style, just asthe later Gothic or pointed architecture was domi-nated by the laity. Abbeys and their churches, notcathedrals, are the important examples for study, ex-cept among the free towns of Germany and along the THE BASILICA THE BASIS. 293 -555325. Fig. 115.—Buttresses. banks of the Rhine
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. FlG. 114.—Saint-Front, at Perigueux, showing cupolas. Ion of Liege, and a few others, the Romanesque ar-tists preferred leaving monuments to names. As may be gathered from the above, Romanesquearchitecture was essentially a monastic style, just asthe later Gothic or pointed architecture was domi-nated by the laity. Abbeys and their churches, notcathedrals, are the important examples for study, ex-cept among the free towns of Germany and along the THE BASILICA THE BASIS. 293 -555325. Fig. 115.—Buttresses. banks of the Rhine ; but even among these the monas-teries of Fulcla, Hildesheim, and Ratisbon hold welltheir own as arbiters in the affairs of art; while inFrance, the cradle of the style, allthe art of every province was gov-erned by the monks, and Burgun-dy, Anjou, Auvergne, Poictou,Normandy, Perigord, and Isle-de-France had each its monastic school,identical in aim, but differing indetail. As the Byzantine architects ofthe East had chosen the Romanbasilica for their point of departure,so also did the Romanesque archi-tects of the West choose it as their basis of nave, aisles, transept, and apse were all retained,and, for a time, the flat wooden ceiling as well, abeautiful example of which has been preserved inPeterborough Cathedral, but the simplicity withwhich Saracens, Hungarians, and Normans had de-stroyed thousands of churches by merely setting fireto the roofs had taught a practical lesson, and henceto invent a vault and avoid the use of
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