Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . Fig. 22. angles, united by round arches, and the groins radiateto the centre of the vault without any ribs at all. Thecapitals of the main columns seem all to have beenrenewed or at all events scraped, and it is difficult to feelsure of the genuineness of any one (Fig. 20). The little 64 EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC [ch. iv \J S. Denis. The choir capitals of the jamb shafts of the windows, however, areuntouched here as in the chapels above (Fig. 21). Sugers choir ends in an apse (Fig. 19), raised overthe crypt and reached on each side by a flight of s
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . Fig. 22. angles, united by round arches, and the groins radiateto the centre of the vault without any ribs at all. Thecapitals of the main columns seem all to have beenrenewed or at all events scraped, and it is difficult to feelsure of the genuineness of any one (Fig. 20). The little 64 EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC [ch. iv \J S. Denis. The choir capitals of the jamb shafts of the windows, however, areuntouched here as in the chapels above (Fig. 21). Sugers choir ends in an apse (Fig. 19), raised overthe crypt and reached on each side by a flight of severalsteps. The French type of chevet with an ambulatory. Fig. 23. and radiating chapels is completely developed, and thevaulting is planned and constructed with perfect know-ledge and skill (v. sup. Fig. 16, p. 45). The doubleaisle is divided by monocylindrical columns 18^ indiameter with tall wide-spreading bases (Fig. 22 a), on a ch. iv] THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD 65 plinth which is square with the corners cut off. The s. Denistorus of the base has very primitive toes at the capitals (Fig. 23) are very Byzantine in character,with the leaves sharply raffled, and laid within oneanother. The main columns of the apse, on the otherhand, have capitals a crochet and bases moulded like thoseat Amiens and Beauvais (Fig. 22 d and e), and haveattached shafts,—triple in the straight bay and single inthose round the curve. They run up to the later workabove and are in the solid of the column, from which I sup-pose that Pierre de Montereau inserted new apse columnsin the place of Sugers, when rebuilding the upper part. The chapels (Figs. 16 a
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